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Chicago, Il

Production Manager who coordinated with USG's Packaging and Marketing Teams on the complete update and rebranding of over 500 packaging skus in the US and Canada in order to be GHS compliant. Involved in meeting and communicating with USG's Safety, Legal, CIC, Quality,Trademark, Marketing, Sourcing, and Product Managers to insure packages fulfilled department requirements. Daily work includes obtaining plate estimates from vendors, writing purchase orders, receiving vendor invoices in Oracle, obtaining vendor specs, reviewing designers work against brand guidelines and approving proofs from multiple vendors. Responsible for updating a print tracker in Excel with job status and organized the USG job file server. Helped train all departments on a new online soft proofing and routing tool to expedite the approval process.

Des Plaines, Il

Team Lead for S.C. Johnson's Home Cleaning and Pest Control divisions in the production of Flexo, Offset, and Roto-Gravure labels, carton's, pouches, shrink sleeves, blister cards, and inserts. Responsible for order entry of job specifications, outsourcing, job tracking, fulfillment, and billing. Working directly with the client, designers, and printers to insure the highest quality printed material is produced within each printers specifications across various print processes, and substrates, while ensuring the clients brand remains consistent.Customer service specialist who takes pride in servicing the clients, designers, printers, internal production and sales teams.

1 N. Dearborn Chicago, Il

Managed pre-media related projects for many blue chip consumer brands including Kraft, PepsiCo, General Motors, Harley-Davidson, Sears, Phillip Morris, P & G, and Miller-Coors in the production of print and digital tablet ads, web banners, OOH displays, station dominations, FSI’s, direct mail, and large format printing from conception through fulfillment.Project managed the Kraft Oscar Mayer station domination of Atlanta Hartsfield, and Chicago’s Midway and O’Hare airports. Provided pre-press services for station banners, elevator wraps, baggage carousels, shelter dioramas, pillars, floor graphics, escalators, spectaculars, posters and digital LCD screens.

225 W. Superior Chicago, Il

Lead customer service representative responsible for entry of job specifications, job tracking, estimating, and internal quality control with a history of exceeding client expectations.Managed the production of seven annual Harley-Davidson catalogs working directly with client’s art directors, production artist, and print producers. Coordinated and managed job workflow and process specifications with Schawk’s photo studio, production staff, printers, paper and ink vendors. Responsible for archiving and managing the repurposing of client images for Japan, Europe and Canadian print catalogs, including digital E-Commerce and web applications.

225 West Superior Chicago, Il

Managed studio project schedules and union employees on all three shifts. Responsibilities included scheduling, assigning tasks, staffing, meeting deadlines, quality assurance, employee safety, and fulfillment. Made final decisions whenever questions or quality assurance was needed on second and third shifts. Fostered a positive team approach when working on complex projects by working as a team to provide solutions in order to deliver the highest quality product on time and within budget.