Ray Lang Email & Phone Number

Wheeling, IL, US

Trustee, and former Plan Commission Chairman, Village of Wheeling. Corporate Authority representing Wheeling in televised public hearings governing the adoption or approval of ordinances, resolutions, motions, agreements, appropriations, collective bargaining and fiscal budgets for residential community of more than 42,000. Additionally charged with.

Wheeling, Illinois

Consulted on new catalog concept for furniture company. Consulted for Retail Food products venture including internet content, photography, public relations and best practices. Designed, wrote and printed fundraising materials for local organization. Writing news-based articles and other creative content for area marketing venture.

• Managed creative, production and printing of all catalogs, sale flyers, national ad campaigns and sales support materials for School Specialty’s Educator’s Marketplace Brand.
• Created and coordinated promotions for key vendors including Sanford, 3M, Crayola and Dixon to deliver product samples to customers through print media. Challenged printer capabilities to make this unique sales.
• Primarily responsible for reducing catalog costs from the previous year by more than $1.1 million through greater printing and production efficiencies. Converted print format to the more cost efficient short cut-off.

• Managed Quill’s entrance into European catalog division with production of an all-new, 500-page office product catalog and prospect sales flyers to introduce Quill as a supplier to the United Kingdom.
• Hired, trained and coached brand new staff to sell product that offices in the UK use everyday...as if we were a British company.
• Managed production logistics of catalog planned in Brussels, BE and Birmingham, UK, designed and produced for direct-to-plate printing in Lincolnshire, IL and forwarded to printer in York, UK.
• Managed division’s advertising budget, annual reviews, employee relations and job assignments for staff of creative designers, copywriters, page productions artists, proofreaders and freelancers. Monitored team’s.

• Creative coordinator of complete mailing programs for Quill’s school and business furniture niches, each including full-line catalogs, monthly sales flyers, magazine print ads and numerous solo mailings. Charged with.
• Created and produced Quill's most highly visible promotions including front covers, special sales and sweepstakes promotions, premium giveaways and institutional pages that set the tone for a mailing providing the.
• Launched the new school niche by coordinating production of a 20-page mailing from concept to film within 15 business days. Schools represent one of Quill’s fastest growing segments.