General Manager

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Lindenhurst, New York 11757 ********@*******.*** (C): 631-***-****

Qualifications for Operations Management

Possesses 20+ years of experience in managing teams to complete orders and

attain efficiency, consistency, and quality at publishing facilities.

Responsible for all aspects of the production process as well as directing

staff, scheduling, inventory control, and cost containment. Coordinated

with management, sales departments, and vendors to maintain synergy and

improve performance. Researched and implemented new production techniques

to keep up with the latest technology. Skilled in printing industry

techniques, including prepress operation, packaging management, fixing

machinery, purchasing, and quality assurance.

Areas of Expertise

Production Leadership

< Led operations at a flexographic print shop with as many as 45

employees; worked with staff so that team members understand each

department's role and can facilitate collaboration.

< Hired, trained, and supervised programmers, pressmen, and the shrink

wrap department as well as prepared top team members for advancement.

< Promoted from one of four assistant managers to general manager;

collaborated with the owner on strategies and expense control.

Change Management

< Assisted in moving a shop from Hempstead, NY to Hauppauge; directed

placement of presses; coordinated with a machine shop to customize

equipment, reset the network, trained new employees, and set up new

supply accounts.

< Established a print-on-demand packaging department.

< To get the print on demand department running, I worked with

programmer to create a new part of the customized program, which

scanned barcodes and printed labels on demand.

< Print on demand (rush Jobs) Generated 12% of the work annually.

< Completed a staff reduction while still increasing production rates.

Inventory Control

< Controlled inventory to attain low turnover while ensuring adequate

supplies; established schedules and worked with sales team to plan a

mix of large and small jobs that help minimize slowdown.

< Negotiated with vendors to attain the lowest possible price for

materials and cross-checked with other businesses to ensure the price

is fair.

Working with the vendors saved cost of supplies.

< Training kept the waist down about 5%. By work with the operator to

set up machine efficiently, to not run jobs that are not ready to go,

and to run jobs at optimum running speed which keeps set ups to one

(no unneeded changing).

< Quality control kept the cost of re-running jobs which is the only way

to remain profitable.

< Working with venders kept the cost of UV varnish down from $3.50 per

pound to $3.05 per pound. We used between 800 to 1000 pounds a month.

< Working with the same vender I decreased the cost of my CMYK UV inks

from $10.95 to $10.50 per pound. We used between 400 to 520 pounds per

month. I also learned how to mix inks from CMYK inks to save money.

< I mix when possible my spot colors which saved $7.50 per pound. My

spot color inks weight was about 200 to 240 pounds per month.

< Working with my stock vender I kept my down about $4000 per month, the

methods I used were ordering early, keeping my ordering to a regular

time of the month, and all way making time for their salesman.

< I kept repair cost by learning how to do maintain on equipment, which

save the company $15,000 per year minimum.

< I ordered packaging supplies in bulk that lowered the cost as per the

vendor grid pricing and I work on getting the company below the grid

pricing. This saved the cost of packaging $9000 per year.

< Beta tested, distributed, and trained employees on a custom Microsoft

Access-based program.

Professional History

General Manager, RC Packaging LLC (Formerly The APS Group) 2013 to 2014

Assistant Manager, The APS Group 2001 to 2013

Technical Specialist, Kinko's 1999 to 2002

Technical Skills

Quark Adobe PageMaker Illustrator Photoshop Acrobat Exchange

Microsoft Office

Xerox Digipath Xerox Fiery for the Docucolor 40 Docutech 6135, 6180,

135

Education

Bachelor of Chemistry, SUNY at Old Westbury

< Minored in Computers and Community Health.

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