Manager Management

Otto S. Chamberlain

Email: ********@**********.***

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City: Lumberton

State: NC

Zip: 28358

Country: USA

Phone: 910-***-****

Skill Level: Any

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Primary Skills/Experience:

Working in the graphic design, printing, and sign industries for 16 years, including college, has developed a well rounded skill set, that has allowed me to not only gain valuable experience in these areas, but also hands on training working with companies and individuals with expertise in these and related areas. This has provided experience with not only image development and editing for production but knowledge of how to maintain, repair, and trouble shoot issues with large format printers, including handling color management and print quality, which includes printer firmware, hardware, and Rip software. This experience has also given me knowledge in data and server management, operating systems, and networking.

Educational Background:

High School Dipolma from University of North Carolina at Pembroke, Pembroke NC 1/2001 to 12/1999 (Graphic Design)

Job History / Details:

Professional Summary

Working in the graphic design, printing, and sign industries for 16 years, including college, has developed a well rounded skill set, that has allowed me to not only gain valuable experience in these areas, but also hands on training working with companies and individuals with expertise in these and related areas. This has provided experience with not only image development and editing for production but knowledge of how to maintain, repair, and trouble shoot issues with large format printers, including handling color management and print quality, which includes printer firmware, hardware, and Rip software. This experience has also given me knowledge in data and server management, operating systems, and networking.

Core Qualifications

Graphic Designer for both wholesale furniture market and sign / advertising companies.

Operations and Department Management.

Maintaining Client Relationships throughout contracts and purchase orders

Design and Production software

Printer Maintenance Operations and Repair

Print Quality and Color Management

Building ICC Profiles

Managing Printer Performance

Photo Restoration

Department Management for Graphic Design, Large Format Printing, and Plotter/Cut Vinyl

Creating Email Proofs for Client approvals.

Handling Multiple Purchase Orders at all times

Cut Vinyl Application signs and vehicles

Digital Print Lamination and Application

Vehicle and Boat Wrap Installation

Adobe CS5 Photoshop, Illustrator, Bridge, Camera Raw, Acrobat, Oynx, Versa works, FlexiSign, Eye-One (photospectrometer) SuperFlip Lenticular

PC and Mac

Experience

January 2001 to November 2004

Village Court Inc. Southern Pines, NC

Graphic Designer / Dept. Manager

A exclusive wall decor company, working in the wholesale furniture market, providing original framed art to companies such as Niemann Marcus, Horchow, Bombay, and TJ Maxx . The company had showrooms in both High Point and and Atlanta for the Spring and Fall furniture shows. My responsibilities including scanning and printing original artwork, and building designs based on the needs of various company art directors needs, and market trends

July 2007 to October 2012

Military Wraps Lumberton, NC

Print Production/Installer/Graphic Design

Position included running the laminator and trimming digital prints for signs, vehicle and boat wraps. Responsibilities moved to running large format digital printers, managing print quality, quantity, and completion of job orders within the required production timeframe to meet shipping requirements. This included maintaining high quality printing for company vehicle wraps and indoor applications, which led me to be responsible for the performance and repair of our Roland and Mutoh printers. The Rip software, Color management, and building ICC profiles also was part of my job responsibilities. Graphic Design was also part of my position creating original print ready images for vehicle wraps, signs, and military training applications. Also creating simulations for the Sales Reps to email to potential clients and ultimately get approvals for production. My position included as well Installation of vehicle wraps, printed vinyl installation on a array of objects for the military, signs, and indoor applications.

March 2005 to May 2007

Rodney's Custom Cut Signs Apex, NC

Sign Maker / Graphics Dept. Manager

Responsible for weeding, masking, and application of cut vinyl to various sign substrates and company vehicles. Moved to Graphics Dept. manager running the plotters cutting the vinyl for the employees doing application, cutting blast tape for sand blasting and creating templates for channel letter installs.Responsibilities also included managing my departments completion of our part of purchase order completion as the signs moved through the various departments of the company to completion

Education

1999 University of North Carolina at Pembroke Pembroke, NC

Bachelor of Arts Graphic Design

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