Manager Quality Control

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Bret A. Verdrager

Experience Bedford, NH 2007-Present

Enterprise Parts

Operations Manager

• Oversee daily operations including shipping and receiving.

• Perform upkeep on workflow management software.

• Train others to use company software for all aspects of the company workflow.

• Maintain accurate inventory records.

• Ordering office supplies and materials for all aspects of operations.

• Maintain minimal impact to company overhead.

• Created a mutual agreement with another company to recycle shipping supplies saving both companies

thousands of dollars a year.

• Oversee all orders throughout the Quality Control inspection process.

• Maintain Software/Hardware throughout company.

Concord, NH 2007-2010

Town & Country Reprographics

Digital Color Manager

• Imposition and set up of graphic files for press.

• Preflight customer artwork for output.

• W ork with production for best set up for equipment in house.

• Implemented layout changes to common jobs that helped create thousands of dollars in annual savings.

• Digital press proofs corrected to represent final output.

• Daily maintenance and operation of Xerox iGen3 Printer.

• Scheduling of production workload in the digital color department.

• Coordination with production on workload and job achievement.

Hudson, NH 2006 - 2007

Kase Printing

Pre Press Specialist / Graphic Coordinator

• Set up incoming Jobs

• Preflight and Design customer artwork for output.

• W ork with production for best set up for equipment in house.

• Digital Color proofs corrected to represent press output.

• Daily maintenance of plate setter and final output of plates.

• Daily use of Preps software to impose files for plate making.

• Plate making and processor upkeep

Concord, NH 2006

WALLACE PRESS & REPROGRAPHICS

Lead Pre Press Specialist

• Coordination of work and employees within the Pre Press Department.

• Preflight and Design customer artwork for output.

• Consult with customers to get best possible print results prior to going to press.

• Manage and support of all computers both PC and Mac running the most current software available.

• Daily maintenance of plate setter and final output of plates.

• Design and maintain of workflow templates using Trueflow for imposition as well as imposing of files.

• Production of proofs for both the customer approval and the press approval.

• Software Used: Adobe Photoshop, Pagemaker, Illustrator, InDesign, Acrobat, Quark Xpress, Microsoft

Publisher, Microsoft Word, Trueflow and Flatworker.

Bret A. Verdrager

Bow, NH 2004 - 2006

GRAPHIC PACKAGING INTERNATIONAL

Experience

Graphic Coordinator

• Set up and coordinate Graphics running in Kalamazoo, MI and Menasha WI Facilities.

• Liaison between production facilities and separators/customers regarding graphics.

• Shared responsibility of building Pandora die templates.

• Knowledge of Creo front end systems including Pandora, Prinergy, CopyDot Toolkit.

• Backup support for troubleshooting the Prinergy Server.

• Off hour support to all 13 Production Facilities (Rotating Schedule)

Peterborough, NH 2000 - 2004

NEW ENGLAND BUSINESS SERVICES, INC.

Digital Pre Press Specialist

• Daily imposition feeding 2 Heidelberg DI Presses and a 2 Color Conventional Press.

• Support Daily Operations of the entire 4 Color Department including scheduling of work.

• Troubleshooting customer files to avoid costly remakes on press.

• Standardized and supported all department Mac computers creating a stable work environment.

• Helped design current Digital Procedures and workflow.

• Assembled training manuals for Imposition along with templates, r esulting in greater Pre Press/Press

efficiency.

• Maintained the upkeep of Raster Image Processor which is essential to operations in Digital

including calibrations.

• Projects Include: Color Management, Large File Transfers, W AN Outage Backup Plan,

Outsourcing, Product Development.

Peterborough, NH 1999 - 2000

NEW ENGLAND BUSINESS SERVICES, INC.

Composition Artist

• Designed custom Forms and Stationary for NEBS customers.

• Co-author/designer of System Upgrade Training Manual which implemented Mac OS 8.6 and Quark 4.1.

• Training instructor for Composition Department, as well as key employees from other NEBS

locations, on the system upgrades

• Administered the introduction of a new line of pressure sensitive labels to be offered by NEBS, an d in

doing so, detected significant problems in the specifications.

• Designed quick keys to merge functions throughout different programs to create a more efficient

workflow.

Nashua, NH 2002

Education DANIEL WEBSTER COLLEGE / TECHMARKET TRAINING

• MCSE/Windows 2000 Core classes for MCSE Certification

Keene, NH 1995 - 1999

KEENE STATE COLLEGE

• B.S. Graphic Design

• Fluent with Mac OS X, Quark 4, Adobe CS3

• President KSC Snowboard Club 1995 - 1999

• Member KSC Rugby Club 1995 - 1997

Snowboarding, Computers, Internet Media, W oodworking, Home Remodeling, Cooking, and Golf.

Interests

References Available upon request

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