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Melville, New York

Create print and digital advertisements for Newsday publications: Newsday, Hometown Shopper, What’s Happening, AM New York, Long Island Living, and Fun Book. Work closely with the sales staff to ensure customer requests are followed. Aid in the sale of spec ads resulting in new business and new clients.Design and format editorial for Hometown Shopper.Communicate with pre-press department to ensure schedule and quality maintenance.Transmit files to pagination. Make corrections, alter images/copy as needed.

Woodbury, New York

Perform editorial and production duties for Perspectives in Biology and Medicine journals and books/e-books. Work closely with the author, copy editor, and prepress departments to ensure schedule and quality maintenance. Proofread manuscripts to ensure copyeditor corrections meet style guidelines. Handle administrative tasks, such as ordering supplies, and scheduling conferences.Responsible for the trafficking of the journals/books from the initial stages through to final prepress approval. Handle reprints for CSHL book titles. Request estimates, transmit files, approve online proofs and advanced copies. Interact with vendors. Quality control of digital products, including e-books, online PDFs, and archives, on multiple devices and on multiple platforms. Resize and redesign book covers according to specifications given. Occasionally create stickers to go along with book design.

Providing freelance print and digital production services for various companies such as American Express Publishing, Hearst Publishing and Martha Stewart.

Greater New York City Area

Perform editorial production duties for Travel+Leisure magazine. Work closely with the art, editorial, and prepress departments to ensure schedule and quality maintenance. Responsible for the placement and preparation of digital content from the initial editorial layout stage through to final prepress approval. Create templates, flow text, update content and release layouts. Perform prepress production duties such as editing images, placing advertisements, creating maps of regions for use within the current issue, and sending out artwork. ● Traffic incoming and outgoing proofs between prepress and editorial staff. Keep page layouts in accordance with the applicable issue’s map. Assist with conversion of content from print format to digital. Set up interactive functionality using Adobe DPS. Interact heavily with designers, editors, and research and copy departments to coordinate on-time production. Maintain schedules for editorial and art departments to ensure on-time publication shipment and delivery. Shipping issue to printer and approving digital blue lines.

Greater New York City Area

Perform editorial production duties for Travel+Leisure magazine. Work closely with the art, editorial, and prepress departments to ensure schedule and quality maintenance. Responsible for the placement and preparation of digital content from the initial editorial layout stage through to final prepress approval. Create templates, flow text, update content and release layouts. Perform prepress production duties such as editing images, placing advertisements, creating maps of regions for use within the current issue, and sending out artwork. Traffic incoming and outgoing proofs between prepress and editorial staff. Keep page layouts in accordance with the applicable issue’s map. Assist with conversion of content from print format to digital. Set up interactive functionality using Adobe DPS.Interact heavily with designers, editors, and research and copy departments to coordinate on-time production. Maintain schedules for editorial and art departments to ensure on-time publication shipment and delivery. Shipping issue to printer and approving digital blue lines.

Greater New York City Area

Executed production responsibilities for Ziff Davis publication– PC Magazine. Collaborated with editorial staff to produce this bi-monthly magazine. Worked in tandem with the sales staff to place and troubleshoot supplied advertiser materials. Created and maintained publication templates, and archiving server. Carried out prepress production duties that included altering images, placing advertisements, and sending out artwork. Set up and attended various quality control meetings with RR Donnelley clients.

Manhasset, New York

Specialized in the daily production operations of publications to meet demands.Processed and transmitted both advertisements and editorial files. Assisted with troubleshooting, responded to manufacturing, quality-control. Maintained internal archiving system. Provided prepress support to editorial departments. Output proofs for approval. Scanned and retouched images.

Oceanside, Ny

Processed and expedited print orders through production stages for a web offset printer. Scheduled press time for work orders under my supervision. Acted as a liaison between customers, salespeople and plant. Planned the most cost effective way to process work orders. Aided in the conversion to a CTP/PDF workflow, saving on annual production costs

Manhasset, New York

Designed, produced and updated marketing pieces, brochures, logos, posters, plaques, self-mailers, trade ads and various other print materials.Created/coordinated production for printed pieces, as well as concepts and layouts.Adhered to corporate identity/graphic standards, and conducted quality-control checks.Managed client relationships to identify needs and deliver appropriate solutions.

Rockville Centre, New York

Redesigned and paginated over 60 directories encompassing the NY & NJ area. Oversaw the production process through to the final shipment stages. Supplied printer with the necessary files to output the books. Placed advertisements throughout the various sections.