Manager Office

Dennis A. Marchesiello

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Summary

• Trusted advisor to CEO on decision-making and process: including budgets, staffing and resources.

• Develop scopes and analyze best practices. Work closely with creative, account management and finance departments.

• Forecast and budget for agency and facilitate a strong liaison with creative department.

• Organized and detail orientated. Expert and flawless under pressure.

• Self-starter and self motivated. Entrepreneurial spirit and innovative. But also an ultimate team player.

• Excellent interpersonal skills with a keen ability to build strong teams that work well together.

• Understands the production process expertly. As well as how it relates to all media: digital, broadcast, print, and OOH

• Expert on pre-press, mechanicals, die-lines, quality control, color management and print press checks.

• Ability to manage day-to-day operations of creative services: including design studio, mechanicals and workflow.

• Extensive Pharmaceutical knowledge of production and regulatory processes.

• Extensive beauty, fashion, up-scale brand and high-end retouching experience. Professional Experience

Prodigious Park Avenue, New York, New York 10010

Vice President, Director of Print Operations & Creative Imaging July 2013 to March 2015

• Part of 3-person management team that lead day-to-day operation of New York office.

• Tasked to reorganize pre-press and studio operations by global CEO. Managed 40-person office.

• Print Operation Director of New York office including, Publicis, Saatchi & Saatchi and Kaplan Thaler pre-press studios.

• Relationship manager on all Prodigious client business.

• Negotiated supplier contracts and rates cards.

• Developed Creative Retouching Group with strong hands-on leadership.

• Clients: P&G, L’Oréal, Sanofi, Merck, Chase, Toyota, Mead Johnson and others. Publicis Kaplan Thaler 1675 Broadway, New York, New York 10019 Senior Vice President, Director of Integrated Production July 2012 to July 2013

• Managed Global Print Creative Services Department with handled 6 million dollar of purchasing.

• Appointed to integrate the Publicis processes with the Kaplan Thaler Group departments.

• Lead on all studio services, processes and control and projects.

• Mac, presentation and Creative Suite expert with hands-on skills.

• Clients: P&G, Wendy’s, Hanes, Pfizer, Merck, Sanofi and others. Kaplan Thaler Group 1675 Broadway, New York, New York 10019 Director of Integrated Production March 2002 to July 2012

• Hand-picked by CEO to merge two agencies, Kaplan Thaler Group and Ayer into an integrated cohesive operation.

• Created and managed 7 million dollar studio that was highly profitable for agency.

• Charged with the set-up of cutting edge digital graphics service department as an agency resource.

• Responsible for Print Production, Traffic, Art Buying and Studio Departments.

• Supervised 25-person integrated department.

• Established clear, uniform policies and procedures for department.

• Supplier point of contact on all print business on all projects including negotiation of cost, estimates and time lines.

• Reviewed all production proofs for color, design and maintained client guideline standards.

• Ambassador of service and good will to agency.

• Clients: P&G, Wendy’s, United Airlines, AFLAC, Revlon, Pfizer, Merck, and others. N.W. Ayer Worldwide Plaza, 825 8th Avenue, New York, New York 10019 Senior Vice President, Director of Graphic Services August 1999 to March 2002

• Hired to turn-around department that had a negative reputation by a complete reorganization.

• Turned department into a profit center. Evaluated department that lost 1 million dollars annually and turned them around into a department that netted 3 million dollars profit for agency within 1 year.

• Responsible for Print Production, Traffic, Art Buying and Studio Departments.

• Created fully integrated production department, which integrated traditional, and digital skills.

• Established vendor pre-pro meeting and maintained time lines and tight schedules.

• Supervised 25-person staff.

• Accounts: Continental Airlines, Avon, GM, P&G, US West, KitchenAid, Lucent Technologies and others. Dennis A. Marchesiello

m: 631-***-**** • h: 631-***-**** • e: ******.************@*****.*** Additional Work Experience

Gotham Inc. 100 5th Avenue, New York, New York 10011 Director of Digital Creative Services

• Hired as Digital/Technical leader to establish new production department.

• Created a state-of-the-art studio department and network server system from ground up for entire agency.

• Trained entire creative department on all aspects of Mac platform from software use to supervision of technical support.

• Established all supplier relationships, processes and standards.

• Accounts: Maybelline, Mercedes Benz, AOL, USA Today, Bristol Myers, Ross Labs, Liz Claiborne, E-Trade and others. Lintas Advertising, Inc. 1 Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, New York, New York 10017 Vice President, Computer Graphics/Art Studio Manager:

• Turned around antiquated art studio into a full-service profit center, combining both traditional techniques and computer graphics.

• Restructured department that annually lost 4 million dollars into a 3 million dollar making profit center.

• Department was agency resource known for its creative excellence as well as its business savvy. Department used as model by Interpublic for other sister agencies.

• Accounts: Cover Girl, Unilever, IBM, Maybelline, Lipton, diet Coke, MasterCard, Johnson & Johnson, Bacardi and others. Garvan Advertising, Inc. 501 South Broadway, Hicksville, New York 11801 Art Director

• Worked closely with Creative Directors on concept and design of advertising, direct mail and point-of-purchase materials.

• Accounts: Citibank, ABC Corp., General Instrument, Manufacturers Hanover Trust. Carino & Philips Advertising, Inc. 1 Dupont Street South, Plainview, New York 11803 Art Director

• Developed creative concepts, produced layouts and finished illustrations.

• Supervised art department staff.

Education

Lynchburg College Lynchburg, Virginia

Bachelor of Arts.

Double major: Fine Arts/Pre-Law

Achievements

• Board Member of the AAAA’s Integrated Print Committee.

• Nice Award: As the department of the year at Kaplan Thaler Group.

• N.W. Ayer Human Contact Award: Employee who has the greatest impact on the company.

• Clay Delauney Award: Lintas Employee of the year, Selected out of 1,200 employees. Skills

• Microsoft Office: Word, PowerPoint and Excel

• Adobe Creative Suite: InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator

• QuarkXpress, Adobe Acrobat Pro, File Maker Pro

• Servers, Printers and Networking

• 3-D presentation and expert hand traditional skills Interests

Digital Graphics, Art, Music, Painting, Museums, Antiques, Outdoors, Athletics & Coaching

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