Jill Wallace Email & Phone Number

Howell, MI, US

• Supervised team of eight Ad Operation Specialists covering several states including Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota.
• Received the Employee of the Quarter Transformation Excellence Award twice for efficiently navigatingdepartmental restructuring and downsizing.
• Conducted performance reviews and championed employee accomplishments.
• Trained incoming employees on Gannett processes.

• Paginated daily news sections, special sections (niche products), classifieds and obits for the Detroit News, Lansing State Journal, Lansing Community Newspapers and the Livingston Daily Press & Argus using Layout.
• Created dummy layouts within the budgeted news hole and advertiser’s requests and disperses daily linage, color and placement reports.
• Spoke directly with advertising representatives, editorial staff, classifieds department and offsite printing plants for best practices and inquiries regarding ad placement, color page positions, upcoming special.
• Assisted ad traffickers in monitoring electronic queues for materials submitted to the GIADC and answering questions from sales staff on ad status, deadlines or materials using AdTracker Online.
• Investigated problems and inquiries with appropriate departments to resolve client issues and report the results to the appropriate sales executive and manager.
• Worked within tight deadlines with an emphasis on accuracy.

Howell, MI

• Paginate daily news sections, special sections (niche products), classifieds and obits for the Livingston County Daily Press & Argus using Layout 8000 and Newsgate software.
• Released and typeset pages after ad completion. Coordinate the production schedule for WePrints and Ad Notes.
• Ran revenue reports for sections and update Profit and Loss sheets.
• Assisted with ad trafficking duties including graphic design tasks assembling files for WePrint flyers, Ad Notes, sales flyers and miscellaneous office projects.

• Developed the creative conception, design, and completion of professional newspaper and niche publication advertisements for local businesses ranging from full page to 1 column by 1 inch ads.
• Completed the advertisement design lifecycle including multiple revisions of advertisements to meet client specifications using Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop, and Adobe Illustrator.
• Produced Adobe PDF's for 4-color and black and white press with Adobe Acrobat Distiller.;
• Manipulated page layouts for both the Classifieds and Obituary sections of the newspaper using Page Layout and Newsgate software.

Howell, MI

• Created and maintained client's social media networks.
• Assisted in creation of client websites using WordPress.
• Created print collateral for clients including brochures, business cards and logo design.

• Designed, produced and managed marketing material projects with 24-hour deadlines, including brochures, postcards, posters, forms, t-shirts, letterheads and large format banners for hundreds of clients, including.
• Managed the prepress process on a Four Color Heidelberg Quickmaster DI and Two Color Itek and Ryobi duplicators in collaboration with two Pressmen.
• Communicated directly with clients as the primary point of contact for design projects with 15K-reader distributions, including a 48-page Chamber of Commerce directory and a 20-page public schools and city calendar.
• Created quarterly eight-page newsletters for two public libraries with a total readership of 40K.

Bachelor Of Fine Arts (B.F.A.), Graphic Design

Associates Of Applied Science, Graphic Design Concentration