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Schawk bought Seven in 2005, at which time I was transferred to the postion of onsite operator at Coca-Cola , an exciting and crucial role for developing the account and the relationship with the client. Briefly my day-to-day tasks are:• Finished Art – Responsible for Cans, Labels, Multipacks, Shrinks, and Tetrapak for a mixture of substrates.• Design/Layout• Adhoc Internal Work - Concepts, Retouching, Internal documents, Powerpoint slides, etc.• Taking Briefs - Project leading for all on site and off site work within the Coke account which included meetings with the agencies to advise on how to supply files and any value we could add before the concept stage had started.• Quoting: - I would advise on all project costs after taking the briefs from the Brand Managers / Packaging Manager. • Approvals: - Each artwork had to go through an approval process within Coke for Brand, Legal, Corporate Affairs, Nutritional, Amatil (bottler) and Technical (knife lines, barcodes). I would manage the amends for both on site and off site artworks.The Coca-Cola and Schawk partnership has developed over the years, some of the key benefits to both businesses have come out of best practice processes and projects that I have contributed to, please see below:• Atlanta Correspondence Meetings:At Schawk Atlanta there are 5 on sites, which I set up a quarterly meeting for the last 2 quarters for any best practices and innovation.• Digital Asset Library for Coca-Cola South Pacific• Continued Improvement Meetings:We setup monthly meetings with all operators and quality control to keep the account from going stagnant.• Workflows: Internal and best practice work flows• Quarterly Business Reviews:Coke asked their partners to create a KPI document containing: Financials, KPI's: SWOT Analysis, Best Practice Process, Process Improvements, Innovation and Partnership moving forward.

I was transferred to Australia to help the struggling packaging department due to a severe lack of computer skills and almost non-existent quality control system and working procedures.Supplying artwork and prepress to an impressive client data base of which includes Coca-Cola, Nestle, Heinz, Unilever, Pacmetal, Wattyl, Warner Brothers, British and American Tobacco. Concentrating Primarily on The Coca Cola account.Skills Development: • Completion of 3 year Trainee as a Finished Artist• Flexographic retouching• Photoshop DCS seperating of images Responsibilities: • Creating Digital and Finished Artwork ready for prepress and print.• Completing artworks from Actual products and Design Files.

Seven Manchester was part of a worldwide group (the largest Media company in the world) offering Finished art, Prepress to food and beverage clients such as CWS, Brake Bros, Cott, Fibracan, Dairycrest, Johnson & Johnson, Carter Wallis, Esso and Sainsburys to name but a few that I have personally been involed with.Skills Development: • On the Job Training as a Finished Artist/Prepress Trainee • Layout packages: Quark Express, Freehand, Adobe Illustrator. • Retouching, deep etching: Adobe Photoshop • Platemaking Training • Cromalin TrainingResponsibilities: • Finished artworK• Backup & Retrieval• Litho & Flexo Prepress• Off set Letterpress Prepress• Typography