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.• Strategising and execution of the company's video strategy.• Devising and implementing enhanced internal processes.• Identification of new suppliers.• Creation and overseeing of brand guidelines for both publishing and events materials.• Design and layout across all print and digital mediums.• Photography, video capture and post production at events.

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.• Video capture and editing for events promo videos, editor comments and client interviews.• Coordinate, train and mentor the creative team, ensuring deadlines are adhered to.• Flatplanning and monitoring page flow, in order to meet daily page quotas.• Lead project strategy meetings, scheduling and budgeting.• Prospective vendor visits, due diligence, negotiation and acquisition.• Mac IT strategy and troubleshooting.

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.• Proof read final designs to ensure zero errors.