Lisa Crowe Email & Phone Number

Wilmette, Il, Us

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

Create functional and friendly templates for internal and vendor layout. Coordinate with teams for content, art, and digital needs. Coordinate with vendors to finalize production-ready templates. Review and respond to design and template questions during mass-production phase. Optimize templates to be agnostic, accessible, state-adoption savvy, XML-optimized, and translation-friendly. Layout in-house when project scope and schedule align and project requires high level of design intervention/implementation.

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

Evanston, Illinois

Senior Technical Production Specialist 2008 - PresentProduce accurate and timely iterative templates and instructions for offshore vendors on cross-discipline, 4-color textbook projects. Compose pages (pour and style text, place art, run flight check, deliver final print and digital PDFs) adhering to printer and publisher specifications.• Adapted to new technology and processes, streamlining prepress process and performing OneCMS to Habitat pushes, pull-and-versions, and image uploads with accuracy and on time.• Communicated with design and composition vendors to implement best practices, resulting in shorter review passes and fewer composition errors.• Collaborated with managers, project leads, and external vendor teams, delivering print-ready files on schedule 100% of the time.• Developed and maintained Technical Production Services’ (TPS) Templating Best Practices with cross-location teams, decreasing vendor production time.• Formulated guidelines with TPS Box Resources Team, fostering uniform workflows and file-naming, and increasing accuracy and efficiency. • Led Sole Hope volunteer initiative for multiple years during corporate Community Investment Council’s yearly Volunteer Week, creating opportunities for employee involvement in charitable cause.

Prepared electronic files for printing 1, 2, and 4-color educational products for middle and high school level. Manipulated text and art according to complex project specifications. Created print-ready PDFs.• Utilized page layout, proofreading, and troubleshooting skills in Adobe InDesign and Quark Xpress, producing accurate electronic files and PDFs. • Flight-checked files in Prinergy Workshop, ensuring conforming results.• Preflighted image files in Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop, verifying correct colors and file sizes. • Interfaced with project team, generating uniform publishing specifications.