Manager Quality Control

BRIAN D. GALLOF

& DESIGN PROFESSIONAL WITH EXPERTISE IN

DIGITAL CONTENT PRODUCTION

TECHNOLOGY SOCIAL MEDIA JOURNALISM

PUBLISHING

Phone: 516-***-****

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

www.bdgallof.com

Portfolio: bdgallof.zenfolio.com

LinkedIn PROFILE: linkedin.com/in/briangallof

CORE SKILLS & ATTRIBUTES

Digital Publishing • Graphic Design • Technology & Project Management • Content Production

Social Media & Content Branding • WordPress Sites • Technical & Project Documentation • Digital & Print Ads

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE SNAPSHOT

High-level of graphic design, art direction, production, publication, layout experience for an over 100-year old Publishing company being

project & process leaders for deadline-driven departments ranging from: Online Ads, Digital Publications, Print Magazines, WordPress verticals,

Marketing Collateral, Print Collateral, Media Kits, Web Collateral, web images, commercial graphics, posters, direct mail, presentations, HTML,

web content, editorial content, blogs, logos, graphics, page layout, covers, editorial, white papers, & PDF documents.

Design, Creation, Strategy & Management of visual & digital media content across all key channels in order to facilitate relationships with key

target audience demographics as well as develop peer & vendor relationships.

Technical Writing & Documentation, Quality Control, Production & Project Workflow.

Digital, Mobile, Tablet, Web, Content Management System (CMS), Database & Print experience.

Dynamic & personable team leader and collaborator. Company resource & key figure for Thomas Publishing Company’s move from print to

digital content for several divisions.

SELECT ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Led an overall 25% cost reduction by developing & managing technology implementation for three major magazine redesigns; including the

migration of the entire magazine group from Quark to InDesign.

At ThomasNet Newsroom: Reduced Digital Content site implementation time from 6 months to 2 days. Installed industry best practices, and

trained Editorial staff/Writers.

Successful launch of 100 magazine titles for Barnes & Noble’s NOOK Color Digital Newsstand division. Handled Magazine publishers &

digital creation process, quality control, debugging, workflow, training, and installed best practices into BN.com’s epub framework for magazine

& periodicals.

Digital Media innovator and Social Media influencer - LinkedIn: Top 5% Industry All-Star; Twitter: 7k+ followers; Instagram 2600+ followers,

Facebook 2000+. KLOUT: range of 61-64. klout.com/BDGallof

Industry-Recognized Digital Content Creator, Producer, Designer and Writer. Social Media Branding expert.

COMPUTER SKILLS

Mac & PC; Tablet/Mobile - MS Office: Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Access, Outlook, Entourage - HTML/CSS; CMS – FTP; Basecamp; Jira

Adobe Creative Suite - InDesign, Photoshop, Acrobat, Illustrator, After Effects, Dreamweaver, Fireworks / QuarkXPress / PitStop / Video

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Thomas Publishing Company (New York, NY) 1996-2010, 2011-Present

Digital Production Manager, Thomasnet Newsroom Division 2011-Present

Oversee the process of design, ads, and content production for ThomasNet News (http://news.ThomasNet.com/). Manage CMS, ad serving technology, and production process

to ensure that all tools are in place to deliver proper content. Supervise ad production. Direct Digital Content and Ad Program,

working with major stakeholders across the company including Editorial, SEO, Marketing, IT, and more.

Addition Positions at Thomas: Production Technology Manager 2007–2010 • Art Production Manager 2003–2007 • Production Mgr. 2001–2003 • Production &

Multimedia Assoc. 1999–2001 • Senior Designer 1998–1999 • Production Coordinator 1996–1998

Barnes & Noble - Digital Division (New York, NY) 2010–2011

ePublishing Operations Manager – Magazine on-boarding of publishers, workflow, quality control for NOOK Color

EDUCATION

Pratt Institute (Brooklyn, NY) BFA in Art & Design Education

+2 year special internship at Marvel Entertainment Company

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