Manager Project

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Qualifications

A Bachelors of Fine Art degree and 20 years experience producing and managing graphic art production

for large and small companies serving federal government and commercial clients. Specializing in

expediting production and in the technical aspects of production and design including:

• Graphic Design and Prepress • Technical Support and Training

• Supervision • Project Management

Achievements

• Responsible for the production of 3,000+ catalog pages per year with circulations up to

12 million per title

• 100% success in meeting separation and print deadlines and routinely releasing pages

early for separation

• Reduced production time by 20% and costs by over 10% by developing production system

efficiencies, procedures, training, and testing

• Cut catalog production time by 33% to 50% by introducing digital asset management software

• Received Achievement Award for corporate web site from the Society for Technical

Communications, 2004

• Received commendation from a web design vendor and a corporate bonus for managing a corporate

web site development project

• Quoted in Southwest Graphics magazine article on “Prepress Reality,” March 1995

• Delivered the commencement address for The Art Center, Tucson, AZ, March 1995

Accomplishments

Graphic Design and Prepress

Design; illustrate; photograph; typeset; proofread and edit; ensure file compatibility across platforms;

evaluate film transparencies, color mark up, and proofs; pre-flight; perform press checks; create

silhouettes; correct color; output color proofs and film; create digital files for direct-to-plate/CTP

printing; and calibrate color output equipment:

• For catalogs, advertisements, order forms, marketing materials, technical manuals, government

reports, proposals, presentations, and press releases

• On Macintosh and PC systems

• To run on digital, sheetfed, web, and gravure presses

Technical Support and Training

• Develop and implement software, hardware and prepress requirements training program, including

writing the users manual and shortcut guide for national catalog and advertising agency clients of

CatTrax™ workflow management software; provide server set-up and maintenance, networking

• Train internal graphics and production personnel on hardware and software; sales force on

computer terminology and company prepress capabilities; individuals and groups of 30 company

personnel and clients

• Consult with national business-to-business and retail catalog publishers on workflow from item

determination through publication

• Recommend graphic production systems including hardware; publishing, digital asset management

and workflow management software

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Supervision

• Supervise 11 graphic artists, designers and print production staff for catalog publishers, advertising

agency, prepress houses, and marketing departments

• Revise all job descriptions and positions, adding growth potential for the print production department

of a catalog publisher with an annual revenue over $150 million

Project Management

For national prepress, catalog publishing companies and the United States Air Force, was responsible for

the following elements of print publishing:

• Create, oversee, and meet internal and external print production schedules and procedures

• Recommend, review, and monitor over $15 million in separation and printing budgets annually

• Bid, select, and negotiate contracts with color houses for prepress services, separation, procure print,

bindery, and mail services, and paper

• Act as a liaison between in-house departments and vendors, and establish and implement prepress

guidelines with separators and printers

• Create and implement corporate naming conventions, filing systems and determine graphic database

organization for over 100,000 photos, 35,000 illustrations, and 12,000 catalog pages and manage all

digital assets

• Maintain project specifications, formats, and production changes and re-design catalog styles, formats,

fonts, photography on a rotating schedule

• Perform quality assurance check on layouts and digital files, color, and press proofs

• Plan, implement and maintain procedures for a 50-employee creative department’s element of the

corporate Disaster Recovery Plan

• Review and verify services performed to create client invoices totaling over $20 million per year and

billable time reports for 20 employee

For a national engineering firm’s web site development project was responsible for the following project

elements:

• Bid, select, and negotiate contract with web design company for re-design of www.bnflinc.com and

www.bngamerica.com

• Recommend, review, and monitor the $100,000 budget and 3.5 month schedule

• Recommend, review, and approve site map, wireframes, and interaction model for over 200 pages on

main site and over 100 pages on administration site

• Collect data, write content, create graphics, proofread, and edit content

• Train corporate web site administrators

• Revise, update, and maintain web site

• Maintain, promote, and manage job marketing and newsletter distribution

Experience

EnergySolutions (formerly BNFL Inc. & BNG America), Print Manager/Senior

Graphic Designer/Web Site Project Manager, Denver, CO 2000-2008

BelcaroGroup, Print Production Manager, Denver, CO 2000-2000

Sportime International, Catalog Production Manager/Art Director, Atlanta, GA 1996-1999

CatTrax, Inc., Training Manager/Technical Support/Prepress, Atlanta, GA 1995-1996

Arizona Mail Order Company, Inc., Computer Production Artist/

Production Manager/Computer Production Manager, Tucson, AZ 1990-1995

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Education

BFA in Drawing, Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design, WI 1983

Troubleshooting & Maintaining the Macintosh, CEUs, Phoenix, AZ 1993

Frontline Leadership Training by Zenger-Miller, Tucson, AZ 1994

Advanced Troubleshooting & Maintaining the Macintosh, CEUs, Atlanta, GA 1999

Intermediate & Advanced Microsoft Word, 2-day New Horizons, Denver, CO 2001

Adobe Acrobat 6 Pro, 2-day Sterling Ledet, Denver, CO 2003

Hardware

Macintosh and PC computers

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Drum and flatbed scanners

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Traditional and digital color proofers including: Fuji, Matchprint, IRIS, and Kodak

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Color calibration equipment

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RIPS

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Film output devices, developers, densitometers

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Digital and 35mm cameras

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Various storage media and peripherals

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Software

QuarkXPress Certified Expert

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Adobe Creative Suite Acrobat, Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop

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Macintosh OS and Microsoft Windows

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Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint

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Digital asset management and database software

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CatTrax™ Digital Workflow Management

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Font management software

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PageMaker

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Lotus Notes and several other e-mail applications

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EWebEditPro

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