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Apt ***, Louisville, keith.thompson47@yah

Ohio 44641 oo.com

Gerald Keith Thompson

Objective To secure employment as a Printing/Production

Manager with a stable and growing company

Experience 2/10/2014 to 10/20/2016 Custom Poly Bag, Inc

Printing Manager

Effectively reduce downtime and improve overall

efficiencies

Negotiate price reductions substantially in all key

area including ink, plate cost, plate mount tape,

etc. over $500,000.00 within 18 months

Lead start up and installation of W & H Miraflex in

2014

Establish procedure within department for

consistency

5/09/2011 to 11/06/2013 Trinity Packaging

Department Manager

Department Manager over Printing, Mounting and Ink

departments

Effectively managed over eighty employees and four

supervisors

Four UV and four water based presses - all wide web

up to 65" webs

Constant set up reduction focus that decreased set

up time by 35%

Developed press-side manual for each press with

clearly defined procedures unique to each piece

03/22/2009 to 09/11/2010 Exopack

Department Manager

Department Manager over Printing, Plate Making,

Mounting, Inks, Extrusion, Slitting and Repro

24/7 operation - Improving printing efficiencies

and reduced waste to go from a 7 day a week

schedule to a 5 day schedule

09/09/2005 to 3/21/2009 Division Eight Inc.

Sales Representative

Commercial Hardware Salesman

Bid Jobs and coordinate projects to completion

Trained locksmith

Coordinate shipping and receiving

03/14/2005 to 09/09/2005 Trinity Packaging

Printing Manager

Printing Manager with 3 in-line presses with

extrusion - all 3 CMF stack presses and water base

Printing Manager with 6 off line presses - 3 water

base and 3 UV - equipment including CMF, Kidder,

and Uteco with webs up to 62" - 2 geared Utecos and

1 gearless press being an Emerald

Department Manager over 65 employees including 4

Supervisors

Developed training program to train very

in-experienced personnel to learn equipment and

business - 2 week program with half being classroom

and the other half being hands on training

Set-up Preventative Maintenance program and

initiated on all printing equipment

Improved Monthly efficiency by 125-150 thousand

dollars in 6 month period

Developed and initiated many procedures within

printing to improve operations

Heavy focus on efficient changeovers, reducing

downtime, and maximizing run speeds

Handled all personnel issues

07/21/1981 to 03/11/2005 North State Flexibles

Production Manager

Production Manager over Printing, Laminating, and

Slitting for the last 6 years with North Sate.

Decisions with all personnel including 4

Supervisors. Involved with training all of my

Supervisors.

2 W & H 10 color presses - 52", gearless, sleeved,

and auto wash up system, solvent

1 Uteco 8 color press, 49", solvent

1 Carraro 8 color press, 67", solvent

1 Mark Andy 6 color press, 16", water and solvent

1 Busch laminator, 67", solvent less

3 Stanford slitters up to 67" width

Participation in FTA and CMM shows to maintain

knowledge of latest technologies and responsible

for waste and press run time improvement

Manage and coordinate work activities on all 3

shifts - effectively reduced make ready 1.25 hours

and downtime by 12% on Uteco and Carraro presses.

Make ready reduction from 2 to 1.3 hours on the 2 W

& H presses. Press checkout and decision making on

purchase of new W & H presses

Production Development team member and heavy

involvement with in-house prepress to ensure

execution of job planning - I made determination of

the number of colors, color sequence, anilox

selection and line screens up to 150

Run speeds on 4 color process with 133 line screen

in excess of 1200 FPM

Work closely with ink company and matchers to

achieve the correct ink and press ready formulas -

dispenser in-house

Constant leadership and projects to improve set-up

time, reduce downtime and maximize run speeds

Decision maker to purchase 2 AVT systems for W & H

presses

Previous experience with CCI, Fife, and BST defect

detection systems also

Printing Supervisor for 5 years - Shift Supervisor

in charge of print, lamination, and slitting.

Involvement in numerous projects to meet production

goals, reduce downtime and waste, and improve

efficiency

Lead man in printing department for 2 years - ran

all printing equipment and maintained efficiency

while assisting supervisor to troubleshoot and

approve jobs. Supervisory role in his absence

Top Printer Classification for 8 years - achieved

highest efficiency and lowest waste numbers while

raising the bar of the pressman rate. Ran all

equipment including 6 color Kidders, 8 color

Utecos, 8 color Carrao, 6 color Mark Andy and

Webtron presses. Always ran newest, most

challenging equipment and working overtime to cover

absences, and changing urgent business issues

Press Assistant - top rated in 9 months. Mounted

jobs and matched ink while operating narrow web

equipment. Started out as a utility man and was

operating a slitter and doing shipping for the

Health Care department. I did all 3 of these jobs,

dependent on which was the most urgent.

Education &

Training High School Diploma - Northeast High School

Supervisory Development Series - 17 classes

ISO Certification as an internal auditor

HAZMAT Training - certify yearly

Forklift training

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