Manager pressroom

To: Nancy

Attention: Job number nj***

From: Michael P. Pelkey

Subject: Pressroom Manager nj584

Location: Clearwater FL.

I have been working in the printing industry for over 30 years.

I have managed and operated combination rotary letterpresses, offset, silkscreen and the last 15 years in flexo. I have been in a managerial position for over 15 years with UV rotary letterpress, flexo and combination presses producing high quality prime labels for the food and beverage industries,health and beauty aids and OTC pharmaceutical labels.

I have been told I have excellent troubleshooting skills needed to keep production moving in a flexographic environment. I am also well adapted to improving process controls to minimize make ready times and more efficient running times reducing excess material usage.

I also have a lot of logged hours with Nilpeters, Comco C1 and Mark Andy 2200’s.I am currently managing 5 presses with 3 man crews and believe I would adapt very easily to your clients production requirements. I am capable of stepping in and operating these presses when needed as I have always done so in the past.

During this time I have worked closely with our sales teams and customers to stay current and ahead of their expectations and delivery requirements of critical jobs and catering to our clients’ needs while developing special projects for them and offering consultation to meet the highest quality standards we can offer.

I am seeking employment with a company more focused on prime labels and labels of special construction such as folded coupons, IRC’s, scratch-off cards, two ply game piece’s, food and beverage packaging, and OTC pharmaceuticals.

While working with KOBel/KoPack I was heavily involved in new product development. I have been considered a good trouble shooter on any type of press, and while I was with KoBel I was sent to Mexico City at MasterPak to troubleshoot their print and production problems with our KoPack press. I had to be there a minimum of 2 weeks. What I corrected for them was:

No.1- Their plate processor needed maintenance and repair. I changed all their exposure bulbs to ensure proper plate curing and then cleaned the accumulated polymer from their wash out unit. I made recommendations to have circulating water run through the wash out unit to keep the accumulation down. I also re-leveled the wash out brushes had to be flat during the wash out cycle. What was evident was they were trying to print with non-conformance plates.

No.2- I then tried to repair their CI drum which had cured varnish spilled on it. When I measured it with a pi tape it was out of spec,(resulting in registration problems.)

No.3 I changed and upgraded their form rollers on all the letterpress print stations and replaced the CI. When all the print stations had been rebuilt, and the new CI installed we were able to reach the 290m/min they were expecting. They also had me do a customer press side press approval for a new client (Colgate) while I was there. The client approved the work in only 30 minutes.

At the end of my stay I had to present a written report of all my repairs and a detailed maintenance schedule to prevent any further expensive, expedited repairs.

MasterPak had later sent a written report to KoPack that they were very satisfied with the work I performed and the professionalism in which I conducted myself that they requested I return the following month to give their operators further print training.

At Federal Label and Worldwide Ticket and Label I created organized ink rooms where none were present to better manage and inventory the ink. I appointed a manager to those ink rooms. Their responsibility was to mix and match inks according to customer swatches provided or from the PMS book before the work order reached the press to eliminate any color matching at press side where the cost is the highest. The manger was responsible for maintaining the inventory and requesting ink for upcoming scheduled jobs to ensure we were prepared.

While I worked at Federal Label I had to create a manageable material inventory system. At the time of my hire there was no inventory system, other than a spot count. That physical count revealed to me we were extremely overstocked and I quickly created a networked inventory list in MS Access which networked the inventory throughout the company. It served to be a valuable tool for sales, CSR’s and the company president and most importantly myself who ordered all the material for upcoming jobs. It gave us real time material availability. We then worked off the inventory to an ideal level. We were able to maintain that level because I had set up relationships with venders to have material ready for us on their floor ready to slit, so they were able to turn those orders in two days. This helped keep the company money in the company’s cash flow instead of sitting idly on the warehouse floor.

I had also made plate room equipment acquisitions for that company who previously believed making plates in house was too involved and complicated.This greatly reduced plate costs. I also introduced GMP and 5s programs where these systems and methods were absent. I created and maintained an ongoing safety program while at Federal Label in New York and acted as the chairman and created a safety committee which met regularly each month to create a safer working environment.

I have worked extensively with folded (expandable content) label constructions, flexible packaging, and prime labels with value added features such as UV rotary screen on combination presses, foil stamping and embossing.

Because I was introduced to GMP practices early and adhered to those guidelines I have always strived toward continuous improvements that are related to processes in the press room and I always find more efficient methods whether a job needs reengineering to maintaining a cleaner more organized work station.

I am always looking for methods to improve production procedures, in process controls such as quality assurance, and scheduling procedures to maximize press through put. I believe it is an ongoing process in a business as competitive as the printing industry and would welcome the challenge to practice these skills for a label manufacturer interested in hiring me.

I have enclosed my resume as an attachment to this cover. Again thank you.

Yours truly,

Michael Pelkey

Cell Phone: 954-***-****

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

Michael Pelkey References:

George Sher: World Wide Ticket 954-***-**** 1110 So. Military Tr. Apt 203 Kevin Held: KPG Corp. 802-***-****)

Deerfield Beach, Fl. Tim Posnic: KPG Corp. 802-***-****)

Dan Plash: Telstar Engineering- (952-***-*****) Cell Phone: 954-***-**** Cell 612-***-****)

Boca Systems Jan 2007-present

Boca Raton, FL

Shift Pressroom Supervisor

Boca Systems produces custom direct thermal ticket stocks for venues such as theme park admissions for Busch Gardens, Disney World, Disney Land, Disney Hong Kong, Universal Studios etc. We also print ticket stock for professional sports teams and theatre venue admissions. We also manufacture all printers for our ticket stock sold to our customers around all parts of the world.

• I review all printed product during make ready process and final samples before QC is called to give approval.

• We are running 24/7 on 5 Webtron model 1000’s. Each press is capable of printing 9 colors with hot foil and magnetic stripe application. Each machine is capable of variable imaging in-line as well.

• I train all pressmen to operate presses, ink jet numbering machine and DMS foil saver unit for applying holograms as well as the six stream B.Bunch ticket folder.

• Troubleshoot press problems.

• Review all work orders and PDF’s before staging.

• Stage all work to appropriate presses with mounted plates, inks, tools, and materials.

• In addition to training personnel on the equipment it is also my responsibility to teach them company SOP’s, make appropriate changes to the prepared schedule to meet delivery requirements set by the GM.

• I evaluate employee performances for yearly evaluations.

• Recommend reprimands and or even terminations when needed.

• I prepare work load for following shift by retrieving material, mounting plates and reviewing all PDF’s to verify accuracy and verifying material availability before the work is staged at the press areas.

World Wide TicketCraft 20003-2007

Boynton Beach, Fl.

worldwideticketcraft.com

Pressroom Production Manager

Worldwide produces direct thermal custom ticket stock for venues such as professional sports teams, theatre performances, theme park admissions, etc.

Each press was capable of up to 10 color with 1 UV, hot and cold foil holograms, magnetic stripe application, as well as other anti-counterfeit processes.

• Ordered all tooling and specialized equipment needed to produce new jobs

• I reviewed all jobs from prepress to finished production.

• Created an organized ink room with an ink room manager to match inks before work order went to press.

• I created a prep department to mount plates, retrieve tooling, review PDF’s and work orders before staging at the press.

• Reviewed all new graphic files and guided prepress during the preflight process what modifications would be needed to make files more flexo friendly.(curve adj., trapping, converting some cmyk to spot colors, or spot to cmyk etc.)

• Reviewed all film and layout of art before they went to platemaking process.

• Scheduled all work for presses in accordance to press capability and delivery requirements.

• I was responsible for troubleshooting all press problems to keep production downtime at a minimum.

• Reviewed all finished product from start to finish with intermittent press checks during run.

• I QC all work for acceptance or rejection from sign off to end of run.

• Created and implemented standard QC SOP’s to adhere to which included testing product in various printers which the end user would be using. These SOP’s also implemented GMP guidelines.

• Responsible for training all press personnel including pressmen on how minimize make ready time.

Federal Label LLC 2001-2003 Sold to Sandy Alexander in NJ

Queens, New York

Production Manager

Federal Label was a producer of various promotional printed products. They included folded (expandable content) labels, IRC (dry peel) coupons on PS base. Various scratch- off cards for promotional events. Prime labels for the cosmetic industry printed on 8 color and 12 color Mark Andy’s.

• I reviewed all jobs and determined best process to manufacture products.

• Worked closely with graphics dept. and sales to make necessary adjustments to art files for best reproduction on press.

• Ordered all material and tooling for all jobs in the flexo dept.

• Worked closely with sales dept. on scheduling and new product development.

• I managed press operations as well as finishing/rewinding.

• I was involved in new product development for multi-web constructions and specialized pieces.

• In 2001 I researched and purchased a Kelleigh 310 plate processor and created new plate making department so plates could be made in house at a substantial savings for the company. At my time of hire I had researched all company receipts payable to their existing trade house and presented a proposal that the company could dramatically cut plate costs and recapture lost downtime very quickly due to having in house platemaking capabilities. I then trained employees on plate making equipment and processes.

• Helped create and implement SOP’s for the plate-making, pressroom, and finishing depts. In addition, SOP’s were created to guide QC for consistent production procedures and results to insure consistent manufacturing practices. None were in place or even practiced until then. It was standard GMP practices but it created stricter traceability where there was once none.

• Created a safety committee and headed it. We met every month.

Federal Label catered to the promotional business and was very successful at securing large accounts. Some of which were Castrol oil, Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Elizabeth Arden, Calvin Klein.

Fort Dearborn Flexible Packaging 1998-2001

Elk Grove Village, IL.

Shift Manager- Flexo Dept.

Responsibilities included:

• Trained press personnel on Comco pro-Glide MSP presses.\ and Webtrons

Equipment list:

• (5) 10 color Comco Commander pro glides(22”), (2) 10 color Webtron 1618’s, (3) 8 color Webtron 750’s, (3) Rotoflex slitter rewind inspection machines

• I delegated job placement to presses in accordance with schedule changes and operator capabilities.

• Assigned work duties to employees on the shift to accommodate production demands.

• I managed all aspects of shift operations. All the Comcos and 1618’s were equipped with lamination stations because the bulk was for the flexible packaging industry. Most products were laminated with clear poly by UV adhesives. We were a producer of polypropylene and shrinkable PVC labels for the food and beverage industry.

• I was responsible for all approvals on press. Approvals had to meet strict criteria. Exact matching of customer proofs or previous runs were required. Color matching with a spectrophotometer was also required. Calibrated proofs were used at that time to match 4c process standards. All spot colors were to match the PMS color exactly. All matching standards were strict and monitored closely.

• Coordinated all production runs with finishing/rewinding and sleeve departments so that printed product could be shipped in a timely fashion.

• Ran Comco presses when we were short- handed due to absences or vacations.

Fort Dearborn was AIB certified and under frequent audits. GMP standards were also in place and adhered to daily.

Product lines produced were clear and white polypropylene laminated wrap labels for the beverage industry.

50 micron PVC shrink sleeves for the beverage industry.

Laminated foil and poly bags for the gourmet coffee industry and similar bagged and pouched products.

Glassine lined packages for the bakery industry for cookie bags for major supermarket chains were also a large piece of business.

Sancoa International 1997-mid 1998 (family member health forced a relocation)

Mount Laural, N.J.

Order Engineering Dept.(Pressroom)

• I was hired by Sancoa exclusively because of my experience with folded coupons and muliti web constructions. Although Sancoa catered to primarily pharmaceutical and health and beauty aids, Joe Sanski explained That their customers required promotional items and there was a lack of experience there on how to engineer these pieces.

• Order engineering worked with the art department on modifications to be made to files for print friendly and reproduction quality at press. Determination of printing process were also assessed in order engineering. Sancoa utilized gravure, offset, rotary letterpress, and rotary silk screen, and flexo. All the presses were capable of combination processes. Engineering department utilized these combinations to obtain the highest quality product.

• In line hot foil stamping was also used for value added and for holographic purposes.

• I ran several of the Gallus R200 combination presses (8 to 12 color) - we were short- handed on the production floor for several months as we had an operator leave during that time period and I was the only one in Order Engineering with experience to keep production going on those particular presses.

• Sancoa is a manufacturer of prime labels and shrink sleeves for the pharmaceutical and cosmetic/health and beauty aids.

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KoPack International 1993-1997

Milton,VT

Now kpg-corp.com.

Production Manager

Job duties included creating and assigning work to appropriate presses to meet scheduling needs. Ordered all tooling required based on product to be printed and coordinated such requirements with the Technical Director and the company President.

KoPack had (5) 004 model (all in one) 13 color combination presses which were configured with slight variations to accommodate a multitude of various web constructions and configurations. There were four 14 “ models with CID(6color) and 6 stack units with 1 varnish unit totaling 13 colors which ran two web constructions for folded(expanded text) coupons to two layer promotion pieces bonded with hot melt applied and patterned release areas which could be die cut and releasable or frozen in different configurations.

I was involved with new product development and process improvements.

One of the 5 machines was a 16” model also with CI/stack combination with 13 colors to produce the same type of products. 2 presses were equipped with variable imaging ion deposition printers and 2 were equipped with screen hot melt stations(for pattern adhesive application in-line) in addition to slot coating adhesive applications.

KoPack worked closely with Moore Business forms. We did a lot of R&D work for them which some were later patented by Moore.

We had a ten year contract to produce everything from high quality prime labels to specialized business forms.

In line hot foil stamping and embossing were used for prime labels in the wine and spirit industry.

Some examples of these products included high quality prime labels, scratch off game pieces to POP or POS pre-paid phone cards. Some unique two web business forms were also produced there for various airline and international customs brokers. We operated under GMP guidelines as well as pharmaceutical guidelines. The presses were engineered to be an All in One Pass operation to eliminate the need for off line bindery work.

I created press drawings to include inside each work order because the KoPacks had many web paths unique for every application. They were drawn by me through a CAD program and reduced Make Ready times substantially. I also drew up retrofits for other unique applications and were made at local machine shops

Bertek Inc. 1983-1993 I was recruited by KoPack

Swanton Vt.

berteksystems.com

Production Manager of Rotary Letterpress Dept.

• I had worked for Bertek for 10 years and while there I worked up to production supervisor from the 2nd shift supervisor position and ultimately production manager.

• Operated 12 color KoPack rotary letterpress. Bertek currently maintains (4) KoPack 12 color presses as well as a Webtron 1600, 8 color flexo.

• We performed in line foil stamping with embossing.

• Duties included job planning and scheduling.

• Coordinated rewind/inspection schedules and operations.

• Responsible for ordering all materials and tooling.

• I was involved in new product development.

• Monitored procedures were being followed and quality remained at the highest standards.

• Monitored any safety concerns and made recommendations for creating a safer work environment.

Made yearly evaluations on each employee and recommended increases or transfers where employees wanted to pursue other areas of manufacturing.

Bertek was a manufacturer of prime labels which included wine and spirits industry’s such as Seagrams, Gordons Gin, D&G Wines and estate distillery’s.

We also produced health and beauty aid labeling, and operated under GMP guidelines. We also operated under pharmaceutical guidelines and were audited periodically for accurate record keeping.

We manufactured transdermal patches in our coating division and produced OTC pharmaceutical labels in our label division. Bertek was dissolved by Mylan Pharmaceuticals who now currently operates the coating division. Bertek was bought by Miami Systems in Ohio and currently maintains that operation in Swanton, VT.

Specialized equipment capable of operating

Nilpeter B2500;RotoPress 2500

Comco MSP Pro-Glide Series – 10 color capable of UV or water base applications (5) stations UV / 10 stations water based)

Kopak 004 combination presses. These machines are equipped with dual unwind stands, 12 color with combination silk screen, letterpress, flexo. Front and back printing is capable on both webs. In addition these machines were capable of in line adhesive application by hot melt screen coater or slot coater. These presses were also equipped with rotary hot leaf stamping capabilities.

NBS (Delfax 1200/2400) ion deposition printer incorporated in line with the KoPack presses for variable information and personalized information on printed products.

Video Jet model 273se ink jet system

Mark Andy 4120,2200 (8color and 12 color) 2200 8 color

Gallus R-200 combination rotary silk screen, letterpress, and flexo, hot leaf stamping.

Webtron 1000 (9 color)

Webtron 1618- 10 color

B.Bunch gearless and convention geared fan folder.

Kelleigh 310 flexo plate processing system.

Attended classes for a workshop in Boston sponsored by Delfax(Xerox) for trouble-shooting techniques on the Delfax 2400 print engines.

DMS hot foil saver

ITW Dynatek in line hot melt adhesive applicator.

Norton in line hot melt adhesive screen applicator.

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