Customer Service Operator

DAN TOBON

908-***-**** ********@*****.*** www.linkedin.com/pub/dan-tobon/4b/504/779/

PREMEDIA TECH

Accomplished, self-motivated Desktop Operator with 25+ years of experience in Prepress. Extremely proficient in Mac and PC Desktop and related operations. Instrumental in guaranteeing job completion and perfection with urgency. Committed to 100% accuracy and excellence through knowledge, dedication, productivity, and dependability. Assist in supervision of Prepress departments. Adaptable to the ever-changing industry through continuous skill development. Advocate of top-notch internal and external customer service resulting in an outstanding company image.

Prepress * Premedia * Mac Operator * PC Desktop * Offset * Proofing * Prinect Heidelberg Imposition * QuarkXpress * Acrobat * Enfocus Pitstop * InDesign

* Photoshop * Illustrator * Variable Data * Digital Printing * Preflight Files

* Press Schedules * Employee Training * Assist in Supervision

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

RR Donnelley/Bowne, Secaucus, NJ 1999 – Present

Premedia Tech

Create/modify pages and file format conversion utilizing various Prepress software programs and applications.

Manipulate images and text to ensure error-free, high-quality print. Preflight of native operations.

Utilize computer hardware and software from multiple platforms and output devices.

Analyze and process digital images and files achieving the output requirements according to specifications.

Maintain all prepress quality policies and complete understanding of print and product manufacturing.

Assist in supervision of Prepress department. Training, coaching and mentoring employees.

Direct Printing Impressions, West Caldwell, NJ 2011 – Present

Prepress part-time

Preflight native and pdf files.

Manipulate images and text to ensure error-free, high-quality print. Make type and color edits using most of Adobe applications, QuarkXpress and Acrobat pdf files using Enfocus Pitstop.

Utilize computer hardware and software from multiple platforms and output devices.

Impose files using Heidelberg Prinect Imposition for sheetfed and digital.

Setup files for variable data

Proofing and visual inspection

Maintain all prepress quality policies and complete understanding of print and product manufacturing.

The Beckley Press, Fairfield, NJ 1987 – 1999

Offset Stripper/Mac Operator

Offset stripping, plating, proofing and contracting.

Assist in supervision of Prepress department.

EDUCATION

Bergen County Vocational Technical High School - Graduated with Honors

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