Production Manager (Prepress & Digital Press)

• Jan 2021 - Present

Operations Manager

• Jan 2019 - Dec 2020

Production Manager

• Jan 2017 - Dec 2018

• Oversee all teams and production staff across the production floor covering all disciplines. Responsible for managing 2 Supervisor and a group of 58 production team. Leads the production teams to develop and/or adapt to process, policies and workflow to improve efficiency, accuracy and etc.• Instruct and mentor operators who are facing difficulties in completing their production tasks and guide them to the correct solution utilizing your skills in artwork, prepress and retouching. • Ensure the delivery of high quality Production service by providing solution, dealing with project coordination and inter-company as needed. Assist in live production work to ensure it is completed to schedule where necessary in instances of staff shortages due to holidays, leave or increased of workload. • Determines applicant requirements by studying job description and job qualifications. Determines applicant qualifications by interviewing applicants; analyzing responses; verifying references; comparing qualifications to job requirements. Evaluates applicants by discussing job requirements and applicant qualifications; interviewing applicants on consistent set of qualifications. • Provide in depth Why-Why analysis of all Internal and External errors. • Develop and deliver training plans and provide mentorship for all new starters in the artist team. • Assist Operation Manager oversee on Client Service and QC Team quality and performance. • Resources planning based on provided plan hours and work on new job transition planning and development. • As internal auditor assisting QA team once a year to ensure production team following the process and seek for room of improvement. • Oversee Digimarc development and planning for entire facility at Schawk Penang. Show less

Asssistant Production Manager

• Jan 2016 - Jan 2017

• Leading 2 Team Leader with 31 Production Artwork and Prepress artist to accomplish daily job. • Reporting and strategic planning to meet company expectation. • As internal auditor assisting QA team once a year to ensure production team following the process and seek for room of improvement. • Had been sent to Schawk Minneapolis for Digimarc training.

Production Supervisor

• Apr 2012 - Dec 2015

• Responsible to train up more employee on advance skill set, mainly train on images retouching and train junior to advance/complex Production Artwork and Prepress. • Propose idea and work with Management team to enhance production workflow to be more cost effective and more productive with combining the knowledge as an Esko admin • Went to Schawk Newcastle on 2009 to transition a creative development work, a preproduction work that include Production art, prepress and color retouching for client review. At the same time supporting the high workload for 7 weeks. • Create training material for production usage. Show less

Backstage Admin

• 2010 - Dec 2015

• Responsible for building workflows and automation solution development to increase efficiency and cost reduction. • Provide technical leadership to day-to-day technical issue such as general artwork issue, automation, workflow, Esko solution, RIPs, barcode, color management, fonts, software/hardware and other production related problem as well as providing training on workflow as necessary. • Working closely with regional and corporate to role out worldwide system implementation. • Went to Schawk Shanghai on 2009 for 2 weeks to train an Esko Admin for Schawk Shanghai company.• Leading Asia Esko admin team to setup automation consistence approach.• Role and responsibility including: o Research & Development, Continues Improvemento Floor Administrator for Esko application• Best employee of year 2010 Show less

Training / Implementation Team Leader

• Jan 2010 - Apr 2015

• Work as a multi-task artist at Schawk, CT development, Color separation, and production artwork. • Guiding and train new joiner to able to work on the job. • Proactively anticipates and resolves issues with limited direction. • Produce production artwork in order to meet to client’s specifications. • Apply pre-press printing knowledge in daily routine such as colour separation, trapping, stepping, high-resolution image replacement, high-resolution barcode replacement, CT development etc. • Produce high quality artworks that meets or exceeds global industry standard.• Best employee of year 2007• Best employee of year 2008 Show less

Desktop Artist

• Sep 2003 - Dec 2010

• Joined Schawk at 2003 as a fresh graduate graphic designer after worked as graphic designer after a year. • Start as Prepress artist, move on to Production artwork, then become a CT re-toucher and color management. • It's a learning curve stage with went through most of the department except finance and Customer service. • Went to Schawk Shanghai to support heavy workload. • Best employee of year 2006