Brian Sako Email & Phone Number

Cleveland, Ohio, United States

United States

Create & edit business cards, letterhead, envelopes and other business products for companies both local and global. Responsible for producing the plates for the pressroom.

Daily functions: Designed and built MacIntosh based print advertising for classified, retail, special sections and direct mail. Responsible for proofreading and transferring ads to the pagination team for page building. Attained auto manufacturing cooperative advertising compliance pre-approvals. • Responsible for gathering, deciphering and making all advertisements print-ready for client’s satisfaction as well as avoiding revenue write-offs. Significantly improved operational efficiency leading to cost savings.• Collaborated with dealership staff as well as automotive manufacturing representatives to insure that advertising compliance guidelines were achieved.Other vital functions: Coordinated and assembled several multi-ad sections and composites. Reprinted stories and pages for clients. Created and updated “How to” manuals for procedural work flow changes. Trained production and sales staff on a multitude of subjects, ranging from software upgrades to compliance submission procedures.• Instrumental in coordinating “Plain Dealer Picks/Ganley Picks”, a yearly 17-week special section print/internet contest involving multiple dealers’ NFL predictions, their weekly and cumulative Win-Loss records, as well as their weekly advertisements.• Developed and maintained a system to reproduce published editorial/advertorial stories into plaques, posters and multi-page magazines for all company divisions. These reprints were used by our sales staff to generate customer goodwill and public relations.• Selected as a one of 7members to the pilot Advertising Client Service team. Contributed to the formation of the team vision and mission as well as divisional procedures for work flows.• Actively participated in the weekly Production Resolution Committee meetings. These meetings generated solutions to solving interdepartmental revenue losses due to work flow and production errors prior to the formation of teams.

Ba, Journalism

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