Responsible for the creation of sample mock ups to meet sales requirements.• Maintain equipment, inventory and order supplies• Direct supervisor to one assigned shift of hourly employee. • Responsible for supervision, direction and leadership in safety, quality, productivity and engagement to ensure goals are met. • Supervise employees in the daily print and cut production of corrugated material, to include training, planning, assigning and evaluating employee performance.• Promoting safety, quality, production and teamwork; resolving conflicts.• Lead and motivate employees.• Color correction, Print file manipulation, troubles shooting, problem solving.

Direct Press room shift activities to meet customer requirements of quality, quantity and delivery.▪ Responsible for meeting efficiency and utilization targets as budgeted, as well as maintaining established production standards and quality controls.▪ Monitor safety and housekeeping in manufacturing area. work closely with crews on solving problems.▪ Maintain effective relationships with employees. Advise and guide employees on policies.▪ Observe press operations, and examine printed material to verify conformance with press run specifications to meet, and exceed, customer expectations, internal and external.▪ Authorize quality of product once proofs are checked for ink coverage and density, alignment, and registration.▪ Maintain positive communication within the press room on all shifts. Communicate effectively with all internal and external customers to insure that all production requirements, schedules, quality, and final deliveries of our products are satisfactory .▪ coordinate staffing efforts to effectively meet all quality and production requirements without over staffing .

With over 2 decades of experience I have worked effectively with a team spread across the country. I have traveled the U.S., built strong customer relationships. Excited by technical problems and new technology, need to know the in’s and out’s of every software I learn, provide excellent customer service, work well within a team, manage time effectively, flexible and adaptable.Understand and appreciate a wide variety of personalities. Communicate technical concepts clearly and concisely. Dedicated to customer service and work well with OEM engineers that have a diverse range of skills. Cognizant of budget and deadlines. Pre to post-sale application support, planning, task management, action item tracking of support, and issue resolution for OEM product. Strong attention to detail, ability to respond quickly to evolving issues, ability to work independently within a multi-disciplinary team.Fluent in Spanish, Calm demeanor and can-do attitude, excellent work ethic, practical approach inspires others. Professionalism enables me to contribute repeatable consistent results for clients and production staff alike.

Responsible for managing and supervising the Pre-Press department employees. Maintain smooth operation of procedures and workflow in a timely and accurate manner for the entire department. Perform reviews for department employees on a timely basis.Knowledge of printing theory, including impositions, overprinting, resolution, dot gain, paper characteristics, color space and color theory.I drive a culture of safety and quality first.Strong Color knowledge-specifically as it applies to spots, curve creation and manipulation.Identifying and leading the development and implementation of Prepress workflow process improvements and automation.Conduct weekly department meetings.Interacts with other departments.Read and accurately interpret production orders and printing specifications to process files.Working knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite, PDF workflow and Microsoft Office.Pre-flight PDF files according to printing standards and prepare them for print.Interact with customer service, external customers and other business leaders regarding the status of jobs and problem-solving scenarios.Answer phone calls when asked to help by others.Maintain consistent communications of project details and scheduled job status with other managers and customer service.Navigate our digital network with different servers and workstations.Communicate with customers regarding any problems, questions, concerns regarding electronic file issues. Communicate (verbal and written) with, customer service, customers vendors, and the technical personnel.

• Supporting the newest in single-pass LED digital inkjet technology from EFI™. In the packaging and corrugated industry. • Provide training to new customers, efficiently train them and solve doubts about the use of equipment, RIP work flow processes, pre-press, etc..• Serve as ambassador to sales reps, clients and visitors.• Professionally communicate, manage and enforce production schedules and deadlines within the Company.• Be the main contact between the customer and EFI with regards to software and operations usage of equipment.• Train new employees on the defined processes in the department.• Provide logistics and staffing support for all required trade show activities.• Accommodate and schedule all demonstrations; ensure resource allocation.• Detailed reports for trainings on a daily base.• Nozomi C18000 set up and calibration.• International travel and communication with Spain EFi/Cretaprint• Extensive Travel.

I consulted, coached and mentored the 20 plus employees from this Prominent Marketing Company in San Diego. We set in place processes to manage color and transparency/layering issues with customer files for output on several Color Press 1000's and iGen's across the country.

Printing Consultant/Coach/Mentor/Trainer – With over 26 years of experience in the Print Industry. Fluent in Spanish. Exceptionally hard worker and creative problem solver. Traveled the entire country, built strong customer relationship. Attention to detail and intellectual curiosity drive my continuous improvement. Understand and appreciate a wide variety of personalities. Ability to communicate a complex idea or solution quickly and easily. Calm demeanor and can-do attitude. Excellent work ethic. Practical approach inspires others. My professionalism enables me to contribute repeatable consistent results for clients and production staff alike.

With Xerox I began as an associate, working in a corporate in-plant print shop utilizing my pre-press background operating a Xerox DocuColor 100 Digital Press. Building my knowledge of production print hardware and software.

I was responsible for the design and layout of high quality publications in a timely and cost effective manner. Worked within and met tight deadlines. Responsible for providing publication artwork to the stripping department, reviewing ‘bluelines’ and approving press checks. Follow publication instructions as provided by Client and Art Director. Prepared publication proofs to Clients per schedule or as needed. Ensure all changes requested by Client, Art Director and/or Quality Control are completed in a timely manner. Prepared and provided press ready publication files by date scheduled. Reviewed and released project bluelines to press as needed.