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Boise, Idaho

Hamilton, NJ

• Performed hands-on production and provide day-to-day oversight of a team of 6 Production Artists.
• Prioritized and manage inbound project requests from concept through completion under tight schedules; this includes allocating resources, defining milestones and schedules, and facilitating cross-functional.
• Established processes, workflows, tools and documentation that set the team up for success and help them work more efficiently to deliver results.
• Cleary communicated project queue status, issues, resource allocation and priorities to cross-functional teams and business leadership.

Greater New York City Area

• Supported the creative development process by developing layouts, composites and templates that wereused to communicate a creative concept or specific execution.
• Provided technical expertise in the areas of offset, web, digital, screen printing, finishing requirements and printing innovation.
• Managed production of various projects from design phase through delivery.
• Calibrated color-managed proofing devices.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Built accurate and precise magazine, newspaper, and outdoor layouts from master mechanicals supplied from clients.
• Ensured and confirmed all mechanical elements were to the intended reproduction specifications (SWOP, SNAP or Gracol) including color space, Dmax, resolution, file type/size and proper separation.
• Alter, repair and trap graphic elements as necessary.

Greater New York City Area

• Hired as a consultant and brought back to New York for one month to train new hires on creating layouts, and giving direction on problem-solving for creative solutions suitable for H&M brand standards.

New York City

• G7 Professional Certification, November 2012.
• Approved internal proofs for all print specification color conversions.
• Managed overall print quality as well as customer expectations for several different accounts and teams within Williams Lea Tag.
• Press checked prints on Litho, Web, and Digital printers for H&M, Coty brands, Burberry, Dolce & Gabbana and Gucci.
• Managed personnel, ensured all creative produced was within brand guidelines and that all files were prepress ready.

New York City

• Brand Guardian for H&M North America.
• Responsible for creating layouts, providing creative solutions and managing prepress for all print media.
• Managed and organized client graphics, fonts and images for each campaign on our servers.
• Worked closely with the H&M designers to develop, maintain and update guidelines for global brand consistency.
• Approved all prints for press ads and POS/POP materials.
• Press checked prints on Litho and digital printers.

Phoenix, Arizona

• Supervised the prepress department of 10 employees.
• Ensured color consistency through the implementation and maintenance of print standards
• Responsible for color matching clients-supplied proofs.
• Hired prepress personnel, handled disciplinary actions and employee reviews.
• Managed press checks for advertisers such as Target, McDonalds, Verizon, and Starbucks.
• Mentored, coached and coordinated ongoing development of employees. Provided direction through goal setting, planning and motivation of production staff to find new ways to improve current processes while maintaining.

Phoenix, Arizona

• Preflight and prepped artwork of incoming vendor files for screen and digital printers.
• Prepped and trapped stencil billboards, vinyl cut letters in Flexisign and Adobe Illustrator.
• Built and maintained templates for billboards, busses and large OOH projects.
• Performed color correction and retouching.