Thomas Marcus Email & Phone Number

United States

• As Design Manager I managed and designed for a Fortune 500 Corporation Design Department, leading a team of three Designers and one Graphic Artist in diverse package and material design initiatives.
• Engaged with clients, conducting design planning, customer facility audits, and internal audits to ensure effective design and development of packaging for a wide range of customers and industries.
• Procured and advised on cutting dies, consulting with vendors, clients, and internal teams to steer design projects with a focus on improving efficiency, quality, and speed.
• Spearheaded Design Department modernization, forging improved communications across all Design, Sales, Customers, Customer Service, and Manufacturing functions to revitalize plant quality and cycle time.
• Drove continuous process improvements, championing the installation and implementation of leading-edge technologies and tools to ensure competitive design and cycle time operations.
• Embedded CAD/CAM technologies to optimize Design Department operations, delivering vendor tooling ordering capabilities and competitive design and development capabilities.

South Holland, Illinois, United States

• "While with Bell Fibre, I steered end-to-end design activities, partnering with clients and design/manufacturing teams to create custom POP, Consumer, Industrial Packaging, and Displays.
• Produced mockups, graphic art designs, and computer integrated presentations around structural samples, providing direction and expertise to support client needs and ensure top-tier project execution.
• Served as Quality Work Group Leader, overseeing design and production operations for alignment with client and company quality requirements as well as regulatory compliance.
• Directed in-house board and box compression testing as Technical Advisor, governing testing and evaluation methodology for optimal outcomes.
• Empowered clients to determine and define required board grade, stacking height, and pallet pattern needs with the creation and publication of CORRassistant – a corrugated box buyers software application.
• Propelled high-impact Design Department modernization, leading the implementation of computer aided design (Ovation Cad and Score software), plotter and sample cutter (Alpha Merics machinery), color printing.