Gary Ramey Email & Phone Number

Fort Lauderdale, Fl, Us

Lake Worth, Florida

Adjunct instructor teaching Photoshop I, Graphic Design I, and Introduction to Macintosh Graphics.

Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Adjunct instructor teaching photography techniques, concept development, desktop publishing, website design, application quality assurance, and project management.

Fort Lauderdale, Florida

White Hat Marketing offers services that enable a business to monetize a website and ensure sustainable results. Strategy development and implementation for AdWords, Affiliate Marketing, Mobile Sites, SEO, Website Design, and WordPress. Previous domain name, whiteopsmarketing.com, was sold.

Adjunct instructor teaching art appreciation and digital photography.

Instructor teaching photography techniques, concept development, desktop publishing, website design, application quality assurance, and project management.

ST IVES INC. USA Web offset, digital and sheet-fed printing solution provider. Approximately 800 employees and $72 million annual sales. Recently acquired by Angstrom Group. St Ives Inc. USA purchased Avanti/Case-Hoyt Corporation in 2001. Total tenure was 13 years (1995-2008). Additional entries below clarify promotions and title changes.MIS/ Pre-press Director (St Ives Inc. USA, 2007-2008)Performed all MIS functions in addition to managing staff of 15 pre-press operators spread across three shifts. Stepped up and took charge of pre-press operations in order to resolve staffing shortage. Simultaneously performed all duties as MIS Director including 24/7 support for 1200 employees.• Upgraded pre-press servers and software in order to implement rules-based automation for processing client files ($250,000 project resulted in $300,000 annual savings).• Increased throughput of critical manufacturing process 220%: Analyzed existing plate-setter, recommended new replacement, determined need to also replace plate processor and supervised installation ($350,000 project).• Decreased press make-ready time and paper waste: Fingerprinted presses and supervised creation of ICC profiles for presses and proofs ($25,000 project).

Total tenure at the company was 13 years.MIS Director (St Ives Inc. USA, 2001-2007)• Establish and maintain policies and procedures for IT computer operations, security, downtime procedures, preventive maintenance, disaster and recovery plans, backups, inventory management and change management.• Design, implement, and manage LAN, WLAN, MAN and WAN circuits among plants in Miami, Hollywood, Rochester and Cleveland as well as a co-location in South Florida.• Personally responsible for configuring, monitoring and maintaining Watchguard firewalls, PIX firewalls, Cisco switches and Cisco routers.• Support 1200 users in a mixed network of PC, UNIX and Macintosh computers.• First hand knowledge of the steps necessary to satisfy the Business Software Alliance (BSA).• Manage Definity telephone switch, Audix voicemail and Inter-Tel (Mitel) systems.• Project Manager for a fully meshed metro-ethernet network (NIMLI/GigE) connecting the Miami plant, Hollywood plant and co-location.

St Ives Inc. USA purchased Avanti/Case-Hoyt Corporation in 2001. Total tenure was 13 years (1995-2008).MIS Director (Avanti/Case-Hoyt Corporation, 1998-2001) Managed Definity telephone switch, Audix voicemail. Managed a mixed network of PC, UNIX and Macintosh computers. Provided 24/7 support to 800 employees.• Established and maintained policies and procedures for IT computer operations, security, downtime procedures, preventive maintenance, disaster and recovery plans, backups, inventory management and change management.• Project Manager for the purchase, installation and support of hardware and circuits in client offices ($150,000 project).

US Web Avanti was a subsidiary of Avanti/Case-Hoyt Corporation that provided website design. St Ives purchased Avanti/Case-Hoyt in 2001. Total tenure at the company was 13 years.Senior Project Manager (US Web/Avanti, 1997-1998)• Clients included Enrique Iglesias, Bigelow Tea and Coconut Grove Bank.

St Ives Inc. USA purchased Avanti/Case-Hoyt Corporation in 2001. Total tenure at the company was 13 years.Systems Manager (Avanti/Case-Hoyt Corporation, 1995-1997)Application specialist in QuarkXPress, Photoshop and Illustrator.• Achieved nearly $1 million annual savings by training art directors, copywriters and account managers on preparation of pages for print.

Formerly one of top 150 ad agencies in U.S. with capitalized billings over $80 million.Corporate Manager of Information ServicesIncreased billable time of art directors and copywriters from 40% to over 90% by training art directors, typesetters and copywriters on numerous graphic-design programs. Promoted to Vice President in 1994.

Mfa, Graphic Arts

Bfa, Fine Arts