Ann-Marie Handy Email & Phone Number

Needham, Ma

• Perform onsite photography at local events and tradeshows• Post production: edit, sort, organize and upload photos take from events and tradeshows for company-wide use of marketing and branding• Evaluate and perform editing functions using photoshop for all speaker photographs (100's per week) that are uploaded into our CMS• Manage upload of hundreds of logos to our CMS• Design web banner advertisements using specified corporate identity for each conference campaign• Design brochures and catalogs: Meet with team and use their concepts to design brochures, catalogs, and web content• Manage, create and update new job request forms, and train new employees on the use of Wrike (job organization platform)• Developed a routing/editing system for all promotional material (for internal and external clients) using Adobe InCopy• Train all new employees in various departments on the use of this system.• Pre-flight all jobs sent to Service Bureaus• Troubleshoot files (i.e., Photos, logos, technical issues)• Convey all files to printers (including purchase orders, delivery of jobs to mail house, special printing requests, dummy mock-ups, etc.)• Acquire competitive print quotes for all promotional material/books/magazines• Maintain all post-production files which includes generating web content (html) for all files, electronic/hard copy filing, input weekly speaker updates on brochures, and generate PDF’s for internal/external marketing promotions• Train new employees on departmental policies and processing of promotional material• Generate annual report on jobs submitted to graphics for comparison year to year• Create and maintain SOP’s for each job type and process within the Graphics Department

Needham, Massachusetts, United States

• Hired, interviewed, and trained new employees for job openings within the CHI Graphics Department• Managed 5 graphic designers with art direction for all promotional material• Evaluated and wrote each Graphics employee performance reviews• Met with compensation committee to review raises and compensation for each Graphics Employee• Held weekly meetings: Designers reported on strategies for each Marketing Campaign as well as progress of job• Interacted with the various department heads at CHI to update them on the status of jobs submitted• Managed the design and development of advertisements for two acquired magazines (Pharmaceutical Discovery & Development (PDD) and BIT World)• Converted all files for PDD from Quark Xpress to InDesign• Successfully negotiated lower print costs for PDD Magazine. $6,000 less per year ($1,000 per print run, 6x per year.) Negotiation based on combined print run of both magazines listed above, new paper stock, and smaller trim size

Newton, Ma

• Designed and approved all promotional material for two companies for 80 conferences annually• Hired and supervised one graphic designer and one part time production assistant• Served as company liaison with placement agencies to acquire production assistants; included negotiation of cost and personnel selection• Interacted with Marketing teams to compile a corporate design for each meeting campaign and monitored it throughout the stages of design• Scanned artwork and retouched images (using Photoshop) as needed for promotional material• Developed in-house graphics submission form for all departments to use in submitting their graphics/promotional jobs electronically• Reported regularly to General Manager on workflow and timing/scheduling of current/new projects

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Digital Photography, Currently Attending

Certificate, Graphic Design / Computer Graphics

Activities and Societies: Part time (night classes) student. Did not participate in societies or activities.