Marqus Dawson Email & Phone Number

Birmingham, AL, US

Birmingham, Alabama, United States

• Manage production timelines, budgets, and resource allocation
• Take lead on client calls regarding estimates and production schedules
• Teach print production processes to ensure solid understanding of concepts

Birmingham, Alabama Area

• Train new hires and departments on best practices
• Arrange retouching sessions for photography, VO sessions for broadcast spots, and post-production sessions for videos
• Coordinate and communicate with agency, client, and production crew on video shoots
• Assist with pre-production purchases for photo and video productions
• Oversee multiple agency and client subscriptions accounts
• Participate in new business initiatives as requested

Birmingham, Alabama Area

• Coordinate with vendors to produce large scale projects and pitches for clients
• Review files to ensure brand guidelines and print specifications are met
• Purchase stock assets for internal and external uses
• Traffic print and broadcast materials across various clients

Birmingham, Alabama Area

• Design tickets, banners, backdrops, decals, meterboards, and other large scale signage for official college sports hospitality events
• Maintain brand guidelines of various NCAA conferences and their official sponsors
• Manage multiple projects and deadlines from various clients

Lenexa, Kansas

• Follow print standards of production and troubleshoot print issues such as overprinting, rich black, spot color errors, bleeds, pixelation, dpi, color mode and transparencies
• Maintain a working knowledge of all equipment and software used within the department
• Communicate throughout the company to provide accurate status of live orders
• Maintain accuracy on orders so work flows efficiently and effectively between departments
• Troubleshoot print issues and establish corrective action to satisfy customer needs

Birmingham, Alabama Area

• Responsible for pre-flighting customer-supplied blueprints and files
• Set-up files with trapping, color correction, dot gain compensation, step & repeat, color separation, and output to RIP for different formats for flexographic and screen printing
• Created & organized customer specific profiles in order to better serve individual clients
• Responsible for maintenance of Roland printer, thermal-transfer printer, flexography plate maker, exposure unit, and solvent reclaiming unit
• Developed processes and procedures utilized for training and production that met the ISO 9000 standard
• Implemented 5S within the Art/Pre-press department

Decatur, Alabama Area

• Designed shirts & banners for businesses, clubs, teams, schools, churches, & charity organizations
• Printed shirts using a variety of methods: heat press, VersaCam, sublimation, & screen print
• Performed quality control inspections to ensure designs had no typos, printing errors, or cutting errors
• Communicated with customers to understand design needs & ensure production deadlines were met

Huntsville, Alabama Area

• Designed logos, visual directories, & various graphics for the SMAP Center
• Designed logos for various center organizations, affiliates, & non-profit organizations

Edgerton, MO

• Designed shirts & banners for local restaurants, small businesses, & athletic summer camp programs
• Pre-flighted & produced vinyl iron-ons for various articles of clothing

Huntsville, Alabama Area

• Responsible for quality control of designs for logos, posters, & advertisements
• Assisted in design & printing of Huntsville’s Yuri’s Night 50th Anniversary poster & t-shirts

Liberal Arts, Graphic Design, Web Cognate

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