Danielle Cheek Email & Phone Number

• As a Graphics Coordinator, my responsibilities include:
• Customer relations, strong communication skills, attention to detail, the ability to multi-task and thrive in a fast-paced work environment.
• Manage multiple projects across several customers from inception to separations to print while ensuring project meets specified requirements, guidelines, Have Ready dates and budget.
• Collaborate with customers and separators to initiate clear and concise orders. Obtain quotes and maintain timelines to ensure project meets deadlines. Review trapped/stepped graphics before separator produces final.
• Maintain constant communication with all teams on project status and expectations in order to remove obstacles that could prevent Have Ready dates from being met.
• Quality Check final LEN files before releasing to manufacturing.

• As the Program Manager at The Home Depot (THD), my responsibilities included:
• Customer and vendor relations, great communication skills, strong organizational skills and precise attention to detail and deadlines
• Facilitates team meetings including: initial project brief, milestones, production and post mortem
• Initiate orders with clear and concise directions, review art to ensure graphics follow THD graphic standards, route art for approval using an online approval system
• Facilitates the flow of information during all phases of multiple projects to ensure internal requirements, proper approvals and deadlines are met
• Trouble shoots and assist in resolution of issues

Onsite At Kimberly-Clark Professional (KCP)

• As the Graphic Coordinator at Kimberly-Clark, my responsibilities include:
• Customer Relations, great communication skills, strong organizational skills and precise attention to detail
• Attending commercialization meetings where I gather and organize project components from KCP marketing, regulatory, R&E and packaging engineers
• Initiate orders with clear and concise directions, direct artwork development, prioritize and coordinate scheduling of art production with team of artists, ensure graphics follow KCP global graphic standards, routing.
• Coordinating timelines and communicate job status with customer in order to complete graphics on time so packaging can be produced for production runs
• Developed and implemented “Quick Reference Guide” for KCP global graphic standards across all Kimberly-Clark Professional brands

• As a Graphics Coordinator, my responsibilities included:
• Customer relations, good communication skills, attention to detail
• Pre-press production art (design, art and trapping) using directions given by customers via phone conferences and/or emails
• Collaborated with separators in order to produce negatives for plate making
• Attended press runs for color and quality checks, many with customers
• Worked closely with my customers, sales, CSR's, screen committee, manufacturing and my suppliers to produce the best quality product

• As the Production Manager at LIFT Creative, my responsibilities included:
• Good communication skills, attention to detail
• Used the designers art files and tweaked them to be production/press ready
• Created graphic standards for each of the LIFT clients

Marietta

• 1998-2001 Facilities Manager onsite at UniPro Foodservice, Inc.As the Facilities Manager at UniPro Foodservice, Inc., my responsibilities included:
• Customer Relations, great communication skills, strong organizational skills and precise attention to detail
• Created pre-press production art
• Attended trade shows to support UniPro’s QC team and policed suppliers packaging issues
• Worked closely with UniPro Foodservice on the CODE redesign, writing standards and implementation of all new CODE packaging as well as all other UniPro brands1996-1998 Computer Graphic System Administrator (CGSA).
• The upkeep and installation of all programs, memory, and video cards for all Power Macintosh computers

• Prepared paste-up and camera-ready art on the board using hand drawn illustrations and typesetting or shots of previous work off Brown and NuARC cameras
• Designed graphics for new customers
• Manually color separated negatives using the NuARC contact table to make film contacts and/or dupes