* Manage Creative Services Department of six full-time designers* Oversee off-site press to ensure quality and specifications for 5 separate press runs per week* Enforce deadlines to ensure timely press run* Resolve conflicts between designers, sales, press, and management* Create print and digital ads for clients* Oversee page layout for 5 publications* Formulate special section schedule and press dates for the calendar year* Track and analyze workflow weekly to increase efficiency between sales and designers* Review print quality weekly across all publications and generate report* Redesigned publications* Coordinate the flow of more than 130 print ads per week through the design staff* Reduced publication production time by 50%* Directed and executed design/launch of 7 publications* Organize office lunch and staff team-building get-togethers

* Supervised the merger of advertising and editorial on each daily newspaper page and special section* Ensured delivery to off-site press* Created marketing material for sales staff* Served as point of contact for commercial clients who utilized the department’s services

* Designed full-color covers for monthly magazine* Streamlined workflow by 50%* Organized advertisements and editorial for three regional editions* Coordinated with printer for press run* Increased reprint orders by 200%

Developed and customized newspaper advertising, retail circulars, marketing material, brochures, and catalogs for clients.

Designed and produced advertising for a group of weekly newspapers.