Manager Sales

Earl Baird

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INDUSTRIAL PROFESSIONAL

Professional Profile

• Accomplished Colour Management Professional/Printing Consultant within the narrow and wide-web industries - Proficient in colour measurement technology and ink systems

• Mentored by some of the most respected persons within the ink and printing industries.

• Re-defined the shrink sleeve process within various facilities.

• Quadrupled sales within 24 months.

• Brought technical service to the forefront as the driver for success.

Skills Summary

Technical Service WHIMS

Safety Written Correspondence

Press Operator Management

HS2 Awareness Quality Control Procedures

Leadership First Aid/CPR level A

Professional Experience

Technical Branch Manager: Experienced in managing all aspects of branch operation encompassing customer site technical service, manufacturing, sales, and laboratory.

Printing Ink Technician: Experienced with UV & Waterbase ink systems utilizing the latest in colour software and inventory control equipment within the label, folding carton, shrink sleeve, and flexible packaging industries.

Press Operator: Cross-functional operator experienced on automatic silk screen, lithographic, and flexographic presses for greeting card, tag, ticket, and label, as well as the preprinted liner board industries.

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Employment History

Label Supply: Technical Service and Development Technologist: April 2011 – Present.

- Sales and service to over 300 customers in the narrow web label and shrink sleeve industries.

- Supplying UV coatings, blending site for waterbase inks and UV inks.

Environmental Inks – a member of the Siegwerk Group: Technical Branch Manager: 2008 to April 1st 2011.

- Responsible for initializing the Canadian Branch Operation.

- Servicing over 50 customers - customer site service for ink trials and press finger printing - printing issues – color matching - laboratory R&D – consulting – sales.

- Quadrupled sales in two years.

Cascades Boxboard Group: Manager: Color Management Operations, 2005 – 2008.

- The most awarded Flexo Folding Carton Plant in the world.

- Corporate Wide Web Folding Carton Ink Technical Service representative.

Metro Label Company Ltd: Manager: Color Management Operations from 2002 to 2005.

- Corporate Ink Technical Service Representative for Press Production Operations.

SunChemical: Technical Service: Color Management Operations from 2001 to 2002.

- Corporate Ink Technician servicing 5-10 customers as well as on site Ink Technician.

- Heatset/coldest – flexo solvent/waterbase – conventional/UV sheetfed.

Labelad: Manager: Color Management Operations from 2000 to 2001.

- Corporate Ink Technical Service Representative.

Avery Dennison: Night shift Operations Manager from 1998 to 2000.

Monarch Marking Systems: Manager of Press Operations-off shift, Managing Ink Technician from 1994 to 1998.

SCI: Press Operations (Preprinted Liner Board) from 1993 to 1994.

Hallmark Cards Canada: Press Operator/ Ink Technician/Plate Maker from 1984 to 1993.

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Education & Training

Radio College of Canada - Electronic Engineering Technician - Toronto, Ontario

H2S Awareness

Standard First Aid – Level A CPR

WHIMS

French 1 – Durham College

Xrite Colour Master (939/530) QA Master I&II – Grand Rapids, MI

WHIMS & Lock out Tag out

DuPont -STOP

PICAS ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) – Radius Solutions

CIMPRO – MAI Systems Corp

Standard First Aid – Level A CPR

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