James Pepper Email & Phone Number

Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

Account Manager• Manage Prepress Cost Estimates for all incoming projects. Responsible for reviewing first round of artwork and writing an estimate for work to be completed, ensuring document is signed and approved, communicating status of estimates to Project Managers and client, providing approved estimates to and communicating with billing department, etc. • Site Administrator for client artwork review portal. Responsibilities include being the main site support contact for all client employees, processing user accounts and permissions, maintaining user and process groups, resetting workflows, completing admin-level maintenance, communicating more complicated issues to development team, training development team on correct site functionality, etc.• Lead of the Digital Asset Management team, wrote and maintains current SOP for this process. Responsibilities include maintaining all released SKUs for archiving, ensuring all meta data is accurate, preparing final files for upload, coordinating with Senior Account Director to ensure team members have work each day, ensuring team maintains progress and follows SOP, reports bi-weekly progress to client, unarchiving files at client request, etc. • Review all prepress files for content and accuracy/color-management and print specifications, communicates approval/alteration requests back to production team, communicates issues to client while offering mindful solutions, etc. • Manage special projects across all client brands. Responsible for staging timelines and workflows, communicating with all stakeholders, monitoring workflow progress, reviewing artwork for content & accuracy, releasing files to print, etc. • Regular meetings with client leadership to discuss current projects, upcoming projects, performance and expectations, etc.

Salisbury, North Carolina, United States

Onsite Project Manager at Peapod Digital Labs (A Company of Ahold Delhaize USA)• Represents We Are Alexander on-site at client location. • Review all prepress files for content and accuracy/color-management and print specifications, communicates approval/alteration requests back to production team, communicates issues to client while offering mindful solutions, etc. • Site Administrator for client artwork review portal. • Lead of the Digital Asset Management team• Manage special projects across all client brands. Responsible for staging timelines and workflows, communicating with all stakeholders, monitoring workflow progress, reviewing artwork for content & accuracy, releasing files to print, etc. • Regular meetings with client leadership to discuss current projects, upcoming projects, performance and expectations, etc.

Charlotte, North Carolina

Onsite Project Manager at Snyder's-Lance, Inc.• Represent We Are Alexander on-site at client location. Operate as liaison between three companies including S-L parent Campbell® Snacks. • Manage client projects across all brands, stage timelines and workflows for all premedia projects, monitor Visionpoint workflows, etc. • Maintain client excel status sheets, communicate with WAA team projects notes/status, run weekly status meetings, etc.• Manage proof reviews on-site at client, ensure approvals received from appropriate parties, communicate approvals to WAA team for release.• Responsible for Visionpoint functionality training for new client employees, ran meetings with multiple trainees. • Organize clients physical proof cabinet, ensure most current proof for each item is filed, sort by numerous factors including brand, net wt, flavor, etc.

Salisbury, North Carolina

Onsite Premedia Coordinator at Delhaize America• Represent We Are Alexander production team on-site at client location. Operate as liason between the two companies, participated in meetings at both companies, etc.• Work with client’s design team to bring a knowledge of printing to stages of the workflow before, during, and after prepress.• Review all prepress proofs for content, color-management and print specifications, and communicate approval/alteration requests back to production team.• Responsible for coordinating release of final files to printer(s), as well as archiving final files to and maintaining client’s online cabinet.• Maintain large format Epson printer on behalf of Delhaize America and working to train DA design team to opearate printer and Fiery XF software.• Main contact for Visionpoint Site Support. Responsibilities include approving user registraitons, monitor/edit user permissions, resolve site issues for client/supplier’s that do not involve IT, etc.

Greenville, South Carolina

• Work with Adobe Creative Suite to design T-shirts & other custom apparel. Designs ranged from simple text designs to complex hand drawn sketches.• Attend Clemson job fair’s as a company representative.• Participate in Bi-annual artist retreats and periodic meetings focused on team building & planning out new projects.• Serve under Internship Coordinator, assisting in training of new interns each semester & restructuring the program.• Full-time Art Intern during the fall semester of my junior year, completed my internship & remained on staff as a Freelance Artist until joining the team as a Full-Time Artist in January 2016.

Clemson, Sc

• Worked with clients from start to finish on all jobs, gaining experience in customer service, design, & production of products. • Significant time spent working in Adobe Creative Suite & with Roland large format printers.• Team Leader responsibilites included training new interns each semester, working with interns daily, & providing management with periodic staff reviews. • Social Media Manager responsibilities included creating designs to feature on all platforms daily, monitoring/analyzing data collected & writing weekly reports based on observed trends, hiring/working with social media intern each semester, planning/scheduling posts in advance, organizing giveaways, etc.

Interact with customers and fellow employees on a regular basis. Prepare food, clean, etc.

Bachelor'S Degree, Graphic Communications, 2.90

Activities and Societies: GAMMA EPSILON TAU - 2011-2015 Organization Chair --- AMERICAN ADVERTISING FOUNDATION - 2012-2014 Team.

High School Diploma, 4.0

Activities and Societies: Member of the Yearbook Staff for 4 years (2 years as Editor), National Honors Society, Beta Club, Spanish.

High School Credit, Graphic Design, 4.0

Activities and Societies: Anderson Districts 1 & 2 Career and Technology Center Honor Society