Designed and led multiple projects simultaneously by assessing, tracking and adjusting priorities as needed to ensure projects were met on time with 100% accuracy.• Ensured quality and on-time project completion, leading production, supporting designers, and managing all phases of project development – project assignment, concept development, design development, quality assurance.• Established effective project completion by assigning and tracking requests from project managers… Show more Designed and led multiple projects simultaneously by assessing, tracking and adjusting priorities as needed to ensure projects were met on time with 100% accuracy.• Ensured quality and on-time project completion, leading production, supporting designers, and managing all phases of project development – project assignment, concept development, design development, quality assurance.• Established effective project completion by assigning and tracking requests from project managers, cross-functional teams, 
and clients. • Streamlined work-flow between departments 75% and increased project completion by 85% by initiating new policies, procedures, training, time management and prioritization between the teams and creative staff. • Secured proper resource allocation workloads and requests from cross-functional teams, and vendors, setting priorities and schedules by assigning specific tasks to team members. Liaison between creative teams, project managers, and executive team identifying project scope, clarifying deliverables, anticipating needs, and managing internal and client communications. Show less

Increased revenue for the newspaper by providing and creating compelling advertising design for clients by leading the creative staff in all aspects of the creative process for the daily publication.• Improved smooth turnover of all creative material for the marketing and sales team by 50% by implementing work-flow procedures, proofing process for the creative department.• Met deadlines 100% on a daily basis effectively and efficiently by maintaining timelines, project allocation, and… Show more Increased revenue for the newspaper by providing and creating compelling advertising design for clients by leading the creative staff in all aspects of the creative process for the daily publication.• Improved smooth turnover of all creative material for the marketing and sales team by 50% by implementing work-flow procedures, proofing process for the creative department.• Met deadlines 100% on a daily basis effectively and efficiently by maintaining timelines, project allocation, and budget guidelines.• Increased revenue and visibility with concept creation, campaigns, advertorial pages, retail / classified ads, special sections, and marketing material, coordinating, communicating, and working cross-functionally with project managers, creative staff, writers, sales, and clients. Show less

Managed 4 Graphic Designers for a weekly publication and the daily activities of the production, providing leadership and staff support in all aspects of creative production for the publication. • Developed quicker turnaround time on projects. • Introduced new work-flow procedures. • Increased overall productivity of the creative staff by 40%, while reducing proofing time by 35%. • Responsible for hiring and training the creative staff.

Managed 7 Graphic Designers for 3 newspapers in all aspects of creative design, prepress production and printing. Products included retail and classified ads, magazines, special sections, and commercial print.· Created prepress management tools for tracking work in progress that increased overall efficiency throughout the department while decreasing overhead.· Responsible for hiring and training the creative staff.