Customer Service Manager
Resume:
DAVID ZABLO
CANTON, OHIO 44718
abod8g@r.postjobfree.com
Northcoast Color Technologies Inc., Twinsburg, Ohio
*/** ** **/** - Production Manager
EXPERIENCE/CAPABILITIES
*Establish workflow of ripping/trapping files for packaging and creating locked down print ready files for printers
worldwide using Rampage Ripping System
*Create custom colors for G.E. Lighting Packaging Graphics using the Kodak Approval digital proofer and matching
spot colors with a spectrophotometer
* All aspects of electronic pre-press and output files to Avantra 44 imagesetter for offset and screen printers
*Evaluation of electronic equipment/software
*Customer service and estimating
*General maintenance and small repairs on all equipment
*Wide format printing using Colorspan DM6000 and Epson 9800 on a wide variety of substrates, including paper,
banner vinyl, backlit film, window mesh, and satin cloth
*Laminating, & Mounting using Ledco 60" laminator. Mounting substrates include foamcore, gatorfoam, sintra,
coroplast & others
*Fine Art Reproductions. Color corrected files to match originals and reproduced on fine art paper and canvas
SOfTWARE: Adobe Creative Suite, Quark Express, Rampage(Automated Prepress Workflow System)
Presswise, Office, and other related software programs
EquIPMENT: Agfa Avantra 44 Imagesetter & In line processor, Kodak Approval XP4, Colorspan DM6000, Epson
9800, Ledco 60" Hot/Cold Laminator, Ledco XL-44 Pouch Laminator
Pre-press Technologies as successor to Summit Litho Process Co. Inc., Akron, Ohio
5/89 to 3/01 - Mac Operator / Production Manager - Electronic Prepress Department
EXPERIENCE/CAPABILITIES
*All aspects of electronic pre-press production
*Color Correction/Manipulation in Photoshop
*Signature/Form Imposition and Layout
*Evaluation of electronic equipment/software
*Responsible for all in-house desktop training
*Coordination/evaluation of customer electronic files (+ preflighting)
*Consultation and calculation of 4-color specifications for camera enlargements and production thereof
*All customer service aspects for Bridgestone/Firestone tire label production and annual contract renegotiations
*Purchasing and cost analysis
*Customer service
*Flexographic prep and platemaking
*3M/Fuji/Dupont proofing systems
*Conventional stripping
*Outside sales
SOfTWARE: Quark Express, All Adobe Products, Freehand, Pagemaker.
EquIPMENT: Linotronic 330 + RIP 50, Screen SG-757 Scanner, 3M Rainbow Proofer, HP Deskjet 1200c, Brown 30”
Horizontal Camera with 48x72 Projection Back, Screen 201 Horizontal Step & Repeat, Kelleigh/Dupont/Anderson &
Vreeland Flexographic Platemaking
EDuCATION
BOWLInG GREEn StAtE UnIVERSIty 1985-1989
7 SEMEStERS In tHE COLLEGE OF tECHnOLOGy
Major: Visual Communications / Print Marketing and Sales
Continuing Education
*Dunn & Bradstreet Seminar - “the More Effective Supervisor”
*Dupont Imaging - Delaware - “Advanced Flexographic Operations”
PERSONAL
u.S. ARMy NATIONAL GuARD - April 1985 to December 1991 - Honorable Discharge as Sergeant E-5
AMERICAN ROMANIAN ORTHODOX yOuTH (A National Organization)
1994-1996 national President
1992-1994 newsletter Editor
Duties included: Compile material and layout an 8 to 10 page monthly newsletter, purchase
printing, bulk mail sort with a circulation of 800
fREELANCE
February 2012 to Present - Compile and layout 24 to 32 page newsletter "the Record" for the ntMA
References available upon request
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