Michael Morabito Email & Phone Number

New York, New York, United States

Montvale, New Jersey, Us

As a Production Print Support Specialist, I am responsible for providing timely and effective assistance to our clients, resolving technical issues, and ensuring smooth operation of our production systems. - Maintain and revise technical documentation.- Collaborating with colleagues to execute solutions.- Monitoring and reporting on production performance. - Providing guidance to less experienced staff members. - Actively engaged in technical training and industry-related events.

Allentown, Pennsylvania, Us

New York, New York, Us

Alexandria, Virginia, Us

New York, Ny, Us

New York, Ny, Us

- Create Tier 0 Self Support Videos for Premedia Division- Respond to Tier 3 Software Issues and FTP administration- Work with IT on CapEx Budgeting, End of Life Schedules and Software / Hardware deployments- Evaluate weekly Occupancy Rates- Created Self Directed Training modules during times of unplanned shrinkage- Create documented Premedia SOPs and workflow for the entire company- Trained in Six Sigma Green Belt Principles- Create daisy chained automation between different vendor applications for optimum efficiencies- Visit clients onsite for relationship building and process improvement

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Edit and/or design content for various forms of media. Have worked on everything from business cards and perfect-bound books to display windows and building wraps. Workflow consists of both CMYK and RGB to Offset (Heidelberg GTO AND 40” Speedmaster), Digital (HP Indigo, Kodak NexPress and Xerox Docucolor 8000) and Wide Format Printing (Vutek, Durst Lambda and Rho, Lightjet.) Developed FileMaker estimating system for digital presses.Clientele: CBS Outdoor, Chanel, CNBC, Coach, Comedy Central, Estee Lauder, Movado, Rolex, Revlon, New York Mets, Movado, Maybelline, HBO, Verizon

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Production Manager for Offset/ Litho Shop 2 40" Presses, followup with clients, trafficking, and set press schedule. Responsible for taking information and material from sales force and putting them into production. Provided Preps Imposition layouts and support for Prepress Department. Determine press schedule. Constant contact with vendors for outsourcing work. Regular customer communication to provide job status and retrieve additional information. Occasionally go on press O.K.s with clients. Clientele: Sony Pictures Classics, Miramax, New York Times, Oxygen (Cable Network)

Lake, New York, Us

Manage small prepress department of Gang-Run Printing Shop. 20 x 29 format, perfecting. Conduct monthly meetings with the art and prepress departments to teach new and existing techniques and discuss any troubleshooting issues. Visit clients in order to coach them on proper file preparation. Updated the brand image of the company, including the website, downloadable templates, manuals, and profiles. Position demanded high level of client contact. I was a working manager; pre-flighting files and layouts for press. Set policy for the department. Responsible for the hiring, scheduling, and termination of Prepress Employees: (Including my subsequent replacement when I left). Type of work range from 200+page perfect bound books to business cards.

Clients included Bookspan and JAC Printing. I provide a wide variety of services and backup Bookspan’s Page Production Prepress supervisor on occasion, which would require directing a staff of six. Bookspan’s Page Assembly Prepress Department work primarily consisted of catalogs ranging from 16 to 48 pages, print advertisements, direct mail, reply card forms and envelopes. Skills utilized for this position included: trafficking, pre-flight files, prepress Mac work, flatbed scanning, image retouching, color correction, creating PDF files, quality control, and FTP files to print vendors.

Hagerstown, Md, Us

Responsible for the quality and tracking of book jackets, paperback covers, case covers, endpapers, and inserts for digital prepress department. Required to check separation based proofs and blue-lines from Prepress. Would evaluate imposition, pagination, layout accuracy, type-flow, book trim, and color corrections done from original proofs. Direct Color Correction, MAC, and Scanning Departments to correct errors made during the workflow. Make sure the pressroom is delivered a final job to the publisher’s exact specifications and expectations. Clientele: Putnam, Random House, Wiley, McGraw Hill.

New York, New York, Us