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• Independent XMPie consultant for Print & Marketing Service Providers• Objectively examine practical solutions for Web2Print• File preparation & design using advanced techniques• Generate new applications as a laboratory for new ideas• Enhance existing VDP workflows to maximize ROI• Share knowledge for pragmatic execution of daily jobs• Expedite development cycles for custom Web2Print apps• Provide services surrounding out-of-the-box Web2Print

• Manage Variable Publishing Applications & Technologies.• Manage the design and template production process. • XMPie SME.• Testing of digital assets, standardization of treatments.• Manage execution of internal Cross Media marketing campaigns.• Manage and build a department to support the above functions.• Technical resource to sales on custom solutions.• Primary contact on the implementation of custom projects.• Act as a technical resource for production & fulfillment.• Guide strategic partnerships with key players in market.

• Act as primary Pre-sales support for Western US.• Support all sales channels including Xerox, HP, Kodak, Canon, EFI.• Provide clever solutions to core business issues.• Workflow expert and application design specialist.• Set proper expectations for software and modules.• Encourage customers to push boundries of our solutions.

• Team Leader for development of DMValet, web-enabled Direct Mail.• Requirements analysis of app conversion from asp to .Net.• Designed and assembled for 75+ templates used in DMValet.• Build, implement, and maintain simultaneous VDP projects.• Fine tune complex VDP workflows to influence soft and hard costs.• Lead analyst on a project which saved approx. $2,000 per day.• Expert troubleshooter on XMPie, Darwin, DocuRight, PReS.

• Responsible for digital color VDP and graphic arts accounts.• Assisted nationwide in Pre/Post-sales including workflow analysis.• Represented all analysts for a annual nationwide conference.• Invited by CreoScitex to represent Xerox partnership for Print 2000.• VDP expert for all Xerox supported full-color authoring tools. • VILA (Variable Information Lead Analyst) trained.