Mark Lukmanji Email & Phone Number

• Responsible for resource management, planning and delivery of all creative materials.
• Management, performance reviewing and development of the Creative team.
• Identifying and supervision of freelancers.
• Planning, maintenance and delivery of annual schedules.
• Calculating pagination breakdown and editorial/advertising ratio of print publications.
• Preparation of the annual department budgets, ensuring expenditure limits are continuously adhered to.

Enfield, United Kingdom

• Manage the inhouse creative team in print and digital production of B2B maritime technical publications, events materials and associated media.
• Initiate on-brief ideas, producing style guides/sheets and user-friendly templates, ensuring brand consistency. Redesigned current magazine page layouts. Quality assurance of department’s work.
• Page design and production, pre-press reviewing and printer press passing.
• Artworking and production of infographics, client advertising, corporate brochures, media plans, social media and web assets, sales and marketing campaign materials.
• Web build and maintenance in Wordpress, Adobe Muse and internal CMS.
• Branding, photography, motion graphics, large format banners and supporting materials for the Events portfolio.

Oxford

• Developed the previously non-existent role of Pre-Press/Digital Process Coordinator, working within the design department for educational book publishers.
• Project-managed the in-house archive of front/back list assets for all curriculum stages resulting in major cost savings working closely with the Asset Management department.
• Design, versioning and editorial correction of international products including organising the translation of key titles into Kiswahili, Amharic and Swazi.
• Sourced and carried out pre-press checks of all re-print material to be printed and mailed in the Far East, aiding in the company’s directive for further cost savings.
• Created an improved digital file management and naming structure to ensure all material was readily accessible company-wide.

London, United Kingdom

• Co-ordinated the production of weekly and monthly computing B2C magazine titles (Computer Reseller News, Computing, PCW, IT Week).
• Built and managed magazine flatplanning, working closely with editorial and sales departments to determine pagination and advertising positioning.
• Copy-chased design studios and media agencies. Advised designers on technical issues and offered instructions in order to rectify. Produced press-ready pdfs to forward to printers.
• Produced digital versions for each title, re-prints and e-prints designed to the client’s specifications, using past and present articles for the use of their own promotion.

High Wycombe

• Oversaw the production process of numerous community magazine and regional newspaper titles in the Buckinghamshire and North West London areas.
• Advertisement copy chasing.
• Rectified advertisement and editorial page errors (i.e. font and file format issues).
• Liaised with senior management, suppliers, design agencies, clients and other in-house departments on all projects.
• Page layout and pdf creation for final print.
• Designed and typeset display, classified and recruitment advertising.