Laura Klinkhamer Email & Phone Number

Westmont, Illinois

• Maintaining the integrity of ivpress.com and IVP's digital presences by:
• Providing strategic leadership and planning of web- and marketing-related projects
• Utilizing IVP's enterprise resource planning system, content management systems, email service providers, form building, multimedia publishing, and embeds
• Tracking and analyzing results through Google Analytics and other provider reports
• Innovating new ways of creating IVP fans and serving existing fans through ivpress.com and other digital presences

Westmont, IL

• Assist the IT department with Macintosh issues, such as:
• General help desk
• Updates and upgrades
• Researching new tools
• AppleScripts used by the production team
• Budget planning for new equipment and software

Westmont, IL

• Assisted the digital communications manager and digital team, by:
• Providing strategic leadership and planning of web- and marketing-related projects
• Contributing to the quality assurance of web-related projects
• Utilizing IVP's enterprise resource planning system, content management systems, email service providers, form building, and multimedia publishing and embeds
• Collaborating with colleagues regarding mobile apps and other digital products, as a strategic advisor, project liaison, and QA contributor

Westmont, IL

• Aided the content production team in the production and composition of high-quality print and digital books by:
• Converting exisiting and new titles into ebook formats: epub, mobi and pdf
• Troubleshooting all digital content
• Managing the distribution and quality of author photos
• Creating high quality images for distribution within print and ebooks
• Maintaining consistency of features, functionality and structure to ebook processes and products

Westmont, IL

• Supported the art director, print buyer and marketing manager by:
• Creating high-resolution, print-ready cover files
• Managing cover and reprint cover production workflow to meet publication deadlines
• Managing in-house cover image distribution for web and outside vendors
• Managing the distribution and quality of author photos
• Creating high-quality images for book interiors and marketing materials

Chicago, IL

Award Printing was acquired by Active Graphics in 2002. I was among a handful of people who were offered the chance to make the move to Active. My work there continued on much of the same projects, plus many more.

Chicago, IL

• Designed annual American Farm Bureau Insurance Financial Indicators brochure
• Designed Postgraduate Course manuals and Surgical Education and Self-Assessment Program (SESAP®) for the American College of Surgeons
• Designed the American Meat Science Association's Meat Evaluation Handbook (2001)
• Designed the North American Meat Purveyors Guide (1997) and their Poultry Guide (1999)

Chicago, IL

• First impression office support:
• Greet visitors, answer phone and direct calls
• Type all quotes, invoices and correspondence
• Support art department with key-line and pasteup