flexo printing process control specialist/ supervisor/ manager

Resume for Kim Ells

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Normandy Park, WA 98166

Home Phone / Cell: 206-***-****

Email: (home) *********@***.***

Experience Highlights

Quality control of pre-print digital files for an International Pre-

media Corporation, color proofing, digital file management.

Strong experience in customer relations. Experienced at press-side

customer color approval.

Standardized pressroom conditions, resulting in increasing efficiency,

reducing down-time, and ensuring repeatability. Standardization

resulted in one year savings of 2, 000 hrs of press-time.

Experienced in color-profiling flexo printing processes.

Strong plate-making knowledge, with heavy emphasis in flexographic

process printing for a national supplier of flexible polyethylene

packaging.

Strong background in press-side problem solving.

Education in color management and digital imaging.

Experienced in implementing Dupont Safety Training in a manufacturing

setting.

2011 to Sept 2012

Pre-press Technical Quality Control at R.R.Donnelley Co, Seattle, WA

Quality Control Technician/Proofreader. Reviewed designs after assembly to

ensure that customer concerns had been addressed, that positioning and

formatting were consistent with customer brand guidelines, and grammar and

spelling were correct. Ensured food packaging met FDA standards. Used pdf's

to toggle-check with other spreads for consistency, formatting, bleeds and

correct gutters. Worked with catalogs and packaging. Performed color

proofing out-putting, both Epsons and Kodak XP4s.

2008 to 2011

Graphics Manager, Yellowstone Plastics, Idaho Falls, ID. Responsible for

ordering plates from outside plate-vendors, participating in Pre-pro

meetings, specifying color-break and line count for up-coming designs.

Managed process color, providing accurate fingerprint information and

creating procedures for color accountability. Experienced with packaging

surface printed on PE and reverse print on PET for lamination. Worked

extensively with customers in developing art to meet their needs.

Maintained positive customer relations with excellent rapport in color

approval situations with end purchaser of packaging. Worked extensively

with press-room employees to solve printing problems.

1996 to 2008

Pre-press proofer/technical assistant at Pliant Corp, Kent, WA

Worked with various outside art vendors to ensure best quality separations

in terms of printability. Maintained standard press-room conditions,

including target ink densities, specified Standardized Anilox Rollers,

maintained data base of pressroom conditions, and managed color targets.

Performed GMS proofing to analyze separations for printability issues, and

color match. Used standard FIRST densities, actual plates and the same inks

as production to provide a standard target for pressroom.

Very experienced at inspecting and analyzing films and digital files for

correct color break, stragglers, maintaining minimum dot configuration, and

consistency to former separations. Possess intimate knowledge of the

specialized needs of flexographic process printing color separations.

Strong understanding of dot gain characteristics and densitometry in

pressroom conditions.

1994 to 1998

Pressroom experience

1990 to 1994

Lead Pressman, Princeton Packaging.

Responsible for print production, safety environment, quality control for

24 pressroom employees, peripheral support employees (maintenance and plate-

mounting), and seven presses. Worked with customers in press-side color

match situations.

1975 to 1990

Journeyman Pressman

Working almost exclusively with process printed flexography. St Regis

Paper, Princeton Packaging, Huntsman Packaging, and Pliant Packaging.

Education:

BA degree in Ancient Middle Eastern Languages and Literature,

Primarily Hebrew and Greek, University of Washington.

Five year apprenticeship program Flexo printing presses, Graphic

Communications Union.

AA degree graphic arts program Seattle Community College.

40 hours classroom training, Ivey-Seright Graphic Arts Training

Center, Seattle WA.

Color Management and digital file management. Ivey-Seright Graphic

Arts Training Ctr, Seattle WA

Introduction to photoshop 5.0 - 40 hrs classroom instruction

10/2012, KE

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