Jennifer Berta Email & Phone Number

Work hand in hand with the Product Graphics, Finish Engineering and Design Engineering teams to clearly document and release ID Specifications for color, finish and graphics for all of our brands and to approve samples for production.• Planning and creating artwork drawings in Adobe Illustrator and utilizing the engineering document system, WindChill/PDMlink, to release graphic drawings to our factories.• Communicating necessary graphic documentation information to global team members within the defined project schedule timelines.• Collaborating with engineering team members in planning, creating and releasing drawings for outside customer line extension projects.• Supporting product graphics team with graphic documentation for LPD projects.• Maintain graphic documentation for sustaining products.• First Piece Inspection approval.

• Managing monthly Premium day pricing for our enterprises by verifying pricing, ensuring the correct barcode and prices are placed on each front page and communicating the pricing information to Design Center teams. • Managing updates to subscription rate boxes for all papers by updating templates and verifying all changes with senior staff at each enterprise.• Managing the transition of Sunday comics sections production from outside vendors to in-house. • Respond to issues and requests from employees throughout the company in a help-desk capacity for the Design Center’s Customer Service team. • Investigate nightly deadline misses and the contributing factors as well as errors that have made it into our nearly 30 daily newspapers. Provide solutions for keeping these issues from happening.• Document and distribute changes in processes at the Design Center for designers, production team employees and editors at our enterprises. • Manage Jotforms and multiple Trello boards while keeping an eye on Slack updates.

Munster, Ind.

• Manage a team of 5 designers at one of Lee Enterprises’ Regional Design Centers.• Oversee production of three newspapers as well as aid in supervision of all 12 of the papers produced at the design center.• Create templates and manage stylebooks for three papers while working with designers to police styles and ensure pages are designed according to each papers’ “brand.”• Design front pages as well as entire sections of mulitple papers in one shift. • Hop in to help other designers when they find themselves “in the weeds.”

Munster, Ind

• Design pages for The Times of Northwestern Indiana, The Sioux City Journal (Sioux City, Iowa), the Rapid City Journal (Rapid City, South Dakota), The Auburn Citizen (Auburn, New York) and The Ledger Independent (Maysville, Kentucky).• Design front pages as well as entire sections and sometimes multiple sections in one shift.• Work on news, sports, business and features sections.

Downers Grove

• Design 8-10 templated pages per night using Associated Press content for Gatehouse newspapers across the country. • Work with a small team in the first stages of GateHouse Media's newly-formed Design House. • Design pages using InDesign and Photoshop.• Choosing and editing stories and writing headlines.

Downers Grove, Il

• Design story packages for a group of weekly community-oriented publications throughout the Chicago suburbs. • Work with editors and writers to conceptualize art to illustrate stories.

West Covina, Ca

• Worked with editors of multiple newspapers to conceptualize design ideas for story packages.• Designed covers for the weekend entertainment sections for the Los Angeles Newspaper Groups regional papers.• Aided in creating a workflow for the consolidated features desk.• Worked daily in InDesign, PhotoShop and Illustrator on a PC platform.• Edited copy for publication and wrote headlines and promo text.

Torrance, Ca

• Designed the front page of the Daily Breeze on a regular basis.• Autonomously worked on special editions and sections of the newspaper including a special Inauguration Day section, a disaster preparedness section and an annual Armed Forces Day parade section.• Considered the go-to person should any department be understaffed or over-burdened.• Trained and mentored new designers.• Worked with pre-press department to ensure quality control and timely printing.• Helped create a stylebook for employees.• Aided in the newspaper's redesign effort.• Worked daily in InDesign, PhotoShop, Illustrator and QuarkXPress on both mac and pc platforms.• Selected wire stories and designed wire pages.• Edited copy for publication and wrote headlines and promo text.• Trained on multiple pagination systems including DTI and Unysis.

Naperville, Il

• Autonomously completed two 40-60 page publications each week.• Conceptualized design and art ideas with editors, photographers and designers.• Participated in story planning meetings.• Worked daily with QuarkXPress, PhotoShop and Illustrator on a Mac platform.• Worked with pre-press department to ensure timely printing and quality control.