Timothy Celner

Email: abqelt@r.postjobfree.com

Address: **** ***** ******

City: Rockford

State: IL

Zip: 61109

Country: USA

Phone: 815-***-****

Skill Level: Entry

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TIMOTHY (Tim) P. CELNER

6261 Essex Circle, Rockford, IL 61109

815-***-**** abqelt@r.postjobfree.com

SUMMARY

Progressive career growth with 25+ years of experience gained in fast-paced production environments supporting demanding, high profile customers.

Proven strengths and abilities leading, training, managing and supporting production while focusing on customer satisfaction in Graphic Arts / Pre-Media / Electronic Media -IT applications.

Organized and able to adhere to tight production schedules where safety, quality, speed and efficiency are critical to customer satisfaction and profitability.

Positive and effective leadership, training, communications and interpersonal skills. Extremely dependable (earned the annual perfect attendance award for the past 10+ years) and been the go-to technical person - receiving calls to solve department issues during off hours.

EXPERIENCE

QUAD GRAPHICS (Formerly World Color), Mt. Morris, IL 1988 to 2011 (Plant consolidation)

500+ employees / 600K+ sq. ft. division of the international commercial printing company printing Catalogs, Sunday News Magazines, Tab/Inserts and Magazines for leading customers such as CVS and Scholastic Books. The division began in 1898 as Kable Printing Company, changed ownership many times, most recently by Quebecor and World Color. This plant is now being consolidated following the recent acquisition by Quad Graphics in 2010.

Assistant Supervisor / Technician Pre-Media-Pre-Press-IT

Key member of the department leadership team supporting production managers, supervisors and production employees.

Assist with the management, leadership, training, development, job workflow, scheduling, and direction of a team of shift production employees operating in a continuous-production operation working under critical deadline pressure for demanding customers.

Create, develop technical training materials and train personnel in desktop publishing and computer-to-plate (CTP) technologies in this rapidly changing technological environment and industry.

Troubleshoot hardware/software problems and directly manage the Computer-To-Plate (CTP) workflow.

Applied network administrator duties including workstation maintenance and repair, switch /TCPIP setup and maintenance, tape archiving and back up plus working directly with vendors to resolve technical issues.

Communicate with customers, sales, account managers and production leaders and provide technical support, guidance and assistance.

Investigate, problem solve and troubleshoot file errors, equipment issues and maintain equipment service records, and order inventory plus daily production reporting.

I was the principal technical-lead during the emergence of electronic-media from conventional film and pre-press technologies during a rapid, 18 month time-frame.

My career began in applied, conventional pre-press technologies and I quickly learned and adapted to the new technologies and I continue to learn and lead the training and technical adaptation of continuously emerging technologies.

Previous career experience was gained as a Photo-Lithographer with Sundstrand Corporation and as a Camera Operator with Sundberg Printers plus Production Artist with Rockford Silk Screening and Diocese Printing Service. My earliest graphic arts / commercial printing experience began with Northern Illinois University`s -The Northern Star- while attending NIU in DeKalb.

TECHNICAL

PC & MAC applications.

Expert in Kodak Prinergy Evo, Kodak Preps, Kodak Harmony and competent in all Adobe Creative Suite applications.

Additional software experience includes Dalim, Quark Xpress, Creo Platemaster, Rampage, Scitex and Harlequin RIPs and many others.

MS Office: Word, Excel, Outlook & Explorer.

EDUCATION & TRAINING

AAS, Cisco Networking, Rock Valley College, Rockford, IL, December 2012.

Member of Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society.

BS, Graphic Arts Technology (Minor in Art), Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL, 1981.

CompTIA A+ certified.

TQM Quality Education Systems, Train the Trainer, Dale Carnegie, sexual harassment awareness.

Safety (DuPont S.T.O.P.), Hazardous Materials, Environmental and OSHA compliance, Confined-spaces, Fire-Extinguishers, Hearing Conservation, Lock-Out / Tag-Out, Personal Protective Equipment.

If hired for full time permanent employment with your company, the company would be eligible to receive partial reimbursement of my wages during my training time from the Federal Workforce Investment Act (WIA) Grant Program. You can contact Brenda Helms, Employment Coordinator, Partners for Employment at 815-***-**** for more information.

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