Commercial Printing Manager

ROY F. NEUDECKER

**** ****** **., ****** ****, NV 89701

Mobile: 859-***-**** Evening Phone: 859-***-**** Email: ******@***.*** SUMMARY:

20+ years of progressive career growth gained in fast-paced, deadline sensitive, high quality, production environments

Proven Leadership, Account Management and decision making abilities combined with budget adherence and project coordination.

Excellent customer-service, prioritization and organizational skills combined with applied expertise of high quality color correction/retouching while working under deadline pressure and tight production schedules \.

Proven adaptability and reliability. Motivated and quick-to-learn combined with positive and effective communications and people skills at all levels. EXPERIENCE:

2015 to Present Nevada Blue, Ltd. Reno, NV

Copy Center

2009 to 2015 PDS, Inc. / Xerox, Inc, Frankfort. KY Production Operator on Digital Printers at Kentucky State University. 2005 to 2009 QUEBECOR WORLD PREMEDIA, Versailles & Lexington, KY

(Division consolidation) A division of a large, high-profile, international commercial printing company operating in a team-based, 3 shift environment and providing pre-press support for publication and catalog customers such as Scholastic, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, McGraw-Hill, New Yorker Magazine and Bauer Publications Customer Sales Representative

Manage and coordinate the client’s needs and foster client relationships through daily contact.

Entered incoming jobs, posted items to be billed, created invoicing for billing.

Coordinate images and ads plus editing for book production and researched images to place into publications over the internet, tracked images on database, requested permission-rights from vendors and invoicing.

Prepare instructions for production departments.

Coordinate offshore outsourcing of images, edit and color retouching.

Perform job close-out and billing functions.

Software in use: Oracle, Quark, In-Design, Photoshop, Illustrator, MS Word, & Excel. Computer platforms: Mac & PC.

1989 to 2003 INDUSTRIAL PRINTING GROUP, Santa Ana, CA One of Orange County's largest commercial printers, providing an extensive variety of printing, finishing and Pre-Press services

Manager

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Lead, train, recruit, motivate and direct a team using PC's to design, correct and arrange graphics using Quark, PageMaker, Photoshop, Adobe Pro plus MS Word, Excel and Power Point.

Scheduling, set up, budget prep and report generations & presentations.

Coordinate and oversee the Intranet System used by Sales and Customers.

Production management of high speed Xerox 6115 and 6135 copiers plus duplicators and presses such as Heidelberg 2 color Perfector, Kord, GTO, Chief, Didi Web plus Heidelberg folder, stitcher / trimmer, Rossback automatic cutter and stitcher, Robinson Cameras, Kodak and Imation plates and processors, film processors and film stripping equipment.

1988 to 1989 CONKLIN PRINTING, Orange County, CA

A privately held commercial printer serving the regional market Pre-Press Supervisor

Lead, train and direct a team of conventional 4 color pre-press staff - work with camera, film, stripping materials, plates to produce jobs for customers. Schedule jobs and continuously monitor quality, costs, production and efficiency and recommended process changes to continuously improve quality and efficiency.

Contacted vendors for supplies, prepared analysis for purchase of new equipment

Prepared reports for justification of new items. 1985 to 1988 CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY, Langley, VA Federal agency

Intelligence Officer (Top Secret Clearance)

Worked as four color stripper and Press Operator on Miehle 1,2 and 6 color presses and Goss Web press with folder.

Held Top Secret Clearance

1970 to 1974 U.S. NAVY

Photographer (Top Secret Clearance)

Instructed in still, aerial and motion picture photography. Lab equipment to process and print color photos.

Personal Photographer to the President of the USA photographing state functions for his personal archives.

EDUCTION:

Associates Degree, Graphics & Business, Fullerton College, CA, 1974

Graphics/Business courses, Golden West College, Huntington, CA, 1976

Photography, Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, CA, 1970 ADDITIONAL:

Orange County Register High Achievement Scholarship

Performance Award from Central Intelligence Agency

Presidential Service Award

Speaker of the Year - Toastmasters

5-point preference based on active duty in the U.S. Armed Forces

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