Typesetting and design of menus, forms, mailings and corporate identities

• Manage daily workflow using custom in-house software• Monitor and keep client deadlines• Regulate daily incoming and outgoing jobs and quotes• Oversee all daily operations of four person print department• Generate detailed purchase orders and distribution lists• Recommend more efficient project production flows, programs and new equipment• Collect samples of finished projects, file and backup of digital files• Impose and preflight internal print jobs, adjusting color and fonts as necessary• Print files on small and large digital print presses and create mock-ups for approval• Creation of variable data ID badges, direct mail campaigns and financial report mailings• Design brochures, newsletters, postcards and company stationery• Development of invitations, journals, and event signage• Typesetting of financial reports, business cards and client forms• Troubleshoot and fix equipment problems• Maintain inventory of printer supplies and paper

• Assist in creative direction with designers on various projects• Create and maintain various full length catalog’s and brochures• Design of graphics for packaging and product for multiple retail and wholesale stores• Development of logos, print ads, POP materials, and trade show graphics• Follow branding guidelines for company licensee’s• Meet critical deadlines for presentations for clients such as Walmart, Target and Toys “R” Us• Assist in direction of photo shoots for various product and action shots for packaging• Photo retouching and digital color correction• Maintain close relationships with multiple vendors• Follow creative jobs from concept through production to press• Assisted with the growth of an in-house art department