Quality Control High School

Michael Kane

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OBJECTIVE: (insert the title of the advertised job)

EXPERIENCE:

GRAPHICS/PHOTOGRAPHY/PRE-PRESS

• Supervised 5 FT & 3 PT camera & graphic arts operators

• Photography using ChemCo Marathon and AutoKon digital cameras

• Equipment maintenance and repair – changing belts & bulbs, mixing all chemicals,

soldered leaks & replaced plastic parts

• Operated Fliptop & Log E developers – shortened production time by 5 minutes per

negative while maintaining production quality

• Registration and color quality control

• Selecting & ordering all supplies – utilized several vendors, selecting the best quality

product and negotiating pricing where possible; developed working relationships with

each

• Followed all SOPs – USA Today’s were used as quality comparison between production

sites, maintained top 10 quality production status nation wide

PRESSMAN

• Operated Goss Metro, Flexographic, Gravure, 4 & 6 color Lithographic and Heidelberg

presses

• Replaced blankets, slitter blades & mechanisms

• Chemical & ink mixing, made color keys & proofs

• Installed ink & form rollers, placement of bearings, dampener & stripes – set all to spec

• Web placement to handle up to 72 pages

• Set and operated machine folder – 2 years experience

• Maintained presses and folder – lubrication, oil levels, grease fittings, set water and ink

mixtures per color. * Maintained a 99% success rate in real room paster operations

• Trained all new workers on all areas of press and real room operations

COMPUTER

Windows: DOS to 7, MS Word, Quicken, Adobe Photo Delux, PageMill, Page Keeper Ad

Builder, ARC-soft PhotoImpression, Print Master, HP Image Zone, Sony Picture Motion

for DVDs, Print Shop, Flip Album, Land Designer, MS Midi Recording Session for

music, Quark

Build and troubleshoot computers and components

CONTINUED…

EMPLOYMENT:

Production, 1981 – March 2010

GANNETT NEWS: The Journal News & USA Today, White Plains, NY

Pressman, 1998 – 2010

Supervisor Color & Graphic Arts Dept., 1993 – 1998

Color Stripper, 1986 – 1993

Composing & Camera Operator, 1981 - 1986

Building & Grounds Maintenance, PALISADES GARDENS RETIREMENT HOME,

DOMINICAN CONVENT & ST. THOMAS AQUINAS COLLEGE

Shipping & Receiving, DEXTER PRESS POSTCARDS, BSR ELECTRONICS

EDUCATION:

Attended Management Training through Zenger Miller Frontline Leadership

Attended Pace University, Pleasantville, NY, earned 15 credits in Accounting

Earned Plumbing certificate, Orange-Ulster BOCES, Middletown, NY

Graduated Clarkstown North High School, Clarkstown, NY

AWARDS:

Leadership & Guidance Award from the Nyack 5 o’clock League for various services

Employee of the Month for Gannett Newspapers

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