Franchise Support

Russell J. Rice

Summary of Professional Experience

• 27 years as a print production professional, graphic communication and printing with heavy customer service in commercial printing environment.

• Full knowledge of the printing process from concept to production working with Artist/Designers, Ad Agencies, customers and print production from 2-color business cards to complex, sheet fed and web, 400 plus page catalogs

• I have managed numerous people as a Pressroom Manager, Bindery Manager, Plant Manager, Office Manager and Sales Manager

9/07 to Present TJ Printing Enterprises (New and Used Printing Equipment)

OWNER (Sole Proprietor) Print Broker and New and Used Equipment Sales

• Selling New and Used Press and Bindery equipment to United States, Canada, and Europe

• Managing full production schedule of customers jobs

• Educating customers on the printing process

• Supporting customers by estimating costs for pre-press, sheet-fed offset litho printing, UV printing with paper and plastic substrates, web printing, finishing, fulfillment, paper, ink and material for jobs ranging from 1- 8 colors

• Clarifying job specifications and requirements, respond to client questions, create mockups for clients to demonstrate concepts, and provide input on cost-saving alternate approaches to printing projects

• Write production work orders for jobs, including detailing production process to be used by pre-press, production, and finishing departments and create mockups, if needed

• Determine appropriate layout for awarded projects to produce quality results while minimizing labor, paper, and ink costs

• Develop specifications for all purchased material and outside labor for each project.

• Respond to questions from printer, pre-press, production, and finishing as well as customer service

• Lay out of all departments as to location of equipment. Power requirements for building for moving company’s equipment.

4/07 to 9/07 Arthritis Foundation (Temporary assignment through Creative Group)

Production Manager (Production & Design)

• Manage full production schedule of all print / design material including offset, cold and heat set web, publications, packaging, mailing collateral, promotional items, and CD duplication.

• Analyze vendor estimates, award project, schedule, check proofs, and press checks

• Coordinate between the Designers and Vendors.

• Analyze job specifications versus vendor qualifications

• Supervise inventory replenishment. Handle inventory management of customer’s materials, including supervising reprints to update inventory

• Wrote up specs for assigned projects and gather estimates from vendors. Award projects to approved venders

• Developed a production schedules for printing projects. Manage all aspects of production of assigned projects.

• Kept a log of projects and venders to have a annual performance review meeting with venders

5/04 to 9/05 VitalPrint LLC

PARTNER (Commercial Printing Company)

• Cold call, direct mail, web based marketing

• Designed interactive web page for automated data exchange

• Designed printing specifications for marketing material

• Printed combo jobs for quick copy printers and print brokers

• Designed and printed postcards, pocket folders, newsletters, posters, Books etc…

• Produced work orders for production jobs, including detailing production process to be used by pre-press, production, and finishing departments and create mockups, if needed

• Scheduled all production process from pre-press to bindery

• Negotiated vendor pricing and purchased required materials for the jobs

• Scheduled outside finishing for specialty binding like hard cover binding, perfect binding, wire, and GBC

• Outsourced quick copy and direct mail services

• Stripped jobs on Dinostrip and output plates on a Screen CTP

• Ran 2001 Shinohara 4 color Press with Aqueous coater

• Managed daily Operations through production scheduling, shipping and receiving; Human Resources using hands on training and individual motivation; and Sales through customer service and satisfaction

• Invoiced and collected receivables, paid invoices

8/86- 5/04 Impress Communications Inc./Image Graphics, Inc.

Plant Manager

• Scheduled jobs throughout the plant

• Performed press checks with customers and monitored work of outside vendors to ensure customer needs were met

• Approve the layout before job was stripped

• Approve jobs if customers could not come out for a press check

• Managed 6 pressman and helpers

• Advised in-house graphic artists on design parameters that took into consideration both equipment capabilities and budget objectives

• Developed specifications for printing to be performed by outside printers

• Selected outside printers, pre-press vendors, and finishing companies

• Prepared cost estimates for printing, coordinated purchases of printing supplies, and maintained inventory of printing supplies as well as printed material needed by customers.

• Frequently assisted in technically demanding assignments for major clients

Pressroom Supervisor

• Performed press checks with customers and monitored work of outside vendors to ensure customer needs were met

• Approve the layout before job was stripped

• Approve jobs if customers could not come out for a press check

• Managed 6 pressman and helper

• Ran the MBO folder, 3-hole drill, saddle stitcher and other bindery equipment.

Pressman

• Miller 5- color 40 inch press

• Miller 2 color

• Shinohara 4 color

• Komori L628+c

• Heidelberg 40in 8 color

PRINT PRODUCTION INTERN

Image Graphics Inc., IPD, Ace Graphics 1/80 – 8/86 summers

SYSTEMS/SOFTWARE EXPERIENCE includes Windows, Windows 2000 Server, Macintosh, Adobe In Design, Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, Image Ready, DynaStrip, Quark Xpress, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Outlook, QuickBooks, ACT, File Maker Pro

EDUCATION AND AFFILIATIONS

Peachtree High School

American Printers Association

International Paper and Print Production Institute

PIAG

PIA/GATF

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