Casey Sandal
Mississauga, Ontario 416-***-**** • 905-***-****
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Executive Summary: Extensive experience in Prepress, Product Engineering, UV Flexo Printing and Color Management
Job Planning and Manufacturing Process Development.
• Skilled at organizing complex projects, defining project priorities, and delegating tasks.
• Major strengths in planning, problem solving and communication.
• Work well in a high pressure environment.
• Well-organized and efficient.
Skills: Expert knowledge of Letterpress, Flexo, Waterless Offset, Rotary Silk Screen, Hot and Cold Stamping, Step and Repeat, Embossing, Color Matching
Experience:
Setup new Prepress Department.
Engineered new jobs with consultation of Sales, Customers and or Designers.
Made changes to existing jobs for better productivity.
Designed press friendly templates for higher production.
Sent proofs and color swatches for approval, made changes as required.
Attended and assisted in press approvals.
Bought tooling for new jobs (cylinders, cutting and emboss dies, raw materials) Arranged for samples and testing.
Worked with Ink and plate suppliers for consistent and quality products.
Held department meetings on various topics(New jobs, QC, training, concerns or accomplishments etc.).
Managed color reproduction using Lab values and ink densities, created cut back curves for prepress. Designed and Enforced proper documentation.
Entered and maintained customer specifications. Made changes as required.
Planned and established work schedules, assignments and production sequences to meet production goals.
Recommended and implemented measures to motivate employees and to improve production methods, equipment performance, product quality and efficiency.
Requisitioned materials, supplies, equipment parts and repair services.
Setup new Flexo Department.
Recommended personnel actions such as hiring and promotions.
Requisitioned materials, supplies, equipment parts and repair services.
Conferred with management and subordinates to resolve worker problems, complaints.
Observed work and monitored gauges, dials and other indicators to ensure that operators conformed to production and processing standards.
• Determined standards, production goals and rates, based on company policies, equipment and labour availability and workloads.
• Read and analyzed charts, work orders, production schedules and other records and reports, in order to determine production requirements and to evaluate current production estimates and outputs.
• Maintained operations data such as time, production and cost records and prepared management reports of production results.
• Interpreted specifications, blueprints, job orders and company policies and procedures for workers.
• Responded to written and telephone requests for customer inquiries, complains.
• Researched and recommended new equipment, technologies.
• Conferred with other supervisors to coordinate operations and activities within and between departments.
Employment: Metro Label (Toronto) Toronto, Ontario
Process Improvement Manager April 2012 to August 2012
Fuji Film Canada Mississauga, Ontario
Managing Supervisor August 2011 to April 2012
think4D / Frisens Corp. Winnipeg, Manitoba
Production Manager October 2010 to June 2011
Gino's Pizza Mississauga, Ontario
Owner February 2010 to October 2010
Spectrol Labels Inc. Mississauga Ontario
Production Manager February 1993 to October 2009
Education: Sheridan College Mississauga, Ontario
Studying towards "PMP" certification
Toronto Image Works Toronto, Ontario
Certificate in Prepress and Design
George Brown College Toronto, Ontario
Certificate in Offset Printing
Ryerson Polytechnic Toronto, Ontario
Certificate in Television Productions
S.L. College Delhi, India
B.A.
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