• Maintain good working relationship with Customer Service and Production.• Layout creation backup and main backup for Prepress e-mail box.• Dupont safety course completion and continual monthly audits.• Help to maintain and continuously improve on project turn time.• Oversee all stock product templates and product specification sheets.• Mentor new employees and continue to help them achieve success.

• Created new and managed 15,000+ layouts.• Wrote a How-to-Book for training others on how to create layouts, measure blocks, and determine roll and sheet sizes that were cost efficient and created least amount of waste material.• Became aware of machine capabilities and requirements on the floor.

• Lead Artist for three QRM Teams (Quick Response Manufacturing).• Created drawings for use in cutting/folding and manage 15,000+ layouts.• Maintained good working relationships with QRM Team members, Floor management and sales staff as well as customers.• Member of Quality Control Team, which evaluated, designated and held people accountable for solutions that reduce number of rejections.Key achievements:• QRM Team held an average on-time delivery rate of 98%.• QRM Team decreased office/manufacturing time by 40%.

Designed and worked with vendors to produce marketing collateral which includes posters, flyers, ads, logos, sales sheets, booklets, newsletters and web sites.

• Developed marketing material and updated existing sales collateral.• Presented ideas and work to clients.• Involved in collaborating, questioning and evaluating focus groups.

• Worked with management and sales staff to create resort materials.• Responsible for high resolution scanning, color correction, press checks, and highly involved in photo shoots.• Project time management and daily communication with vendors.• Held training presentations at annual sales meetings.• Provided corporate brand consistency throughout all materials.

• Revised, resized and proofed to clients.• Designed direct mail, posters, ads and other various marketing materials.• Created mock-ups for clients, vendors, awards and trade show booths.