Experience

Contemporary Graphic Solutions

• United States
• Printing Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Estimator

  • Sep 2017 - Present



Square One Inc.

• United States
• Advertising Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Project Manager / Estimator

  • Sep 2016 - Sep 2017

  MIS EFI PrintSmith



Riegel Printing

• Printing Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Production Planner / Storefront Manager / Estimator

  • Feb 2013 - Sep 2016

  MIS EFI Pace



Fort Nassau Graphics

• Printing Estimator and Accounting Support

  • Jan 2008 - Feb 2013

  MIS EFI PaceSupport of Sales Representatives by estimating costs for pre-press, digital, sheet-fed offset, heat-set and cold-set web, finishing, kitting, fulfillment, mail services, paper, ink and materials for various projects/campaigns.Clarify project/campaign specifications and requirements, respond to client questions, create mockups for clients to demonstrate concepts, and provide input on cost-saving alternate approaches to printing projects/campaigns.In addition to estimating each project it is my responsibility to calculate commissions based on scope of project and profit margin. In addition it is my responsibility to maintain sales commission reports, close all projects/campaigns and generate invoices to clients.Manage suppliers to maintain costs, schedules and deliveries of outsourcing.Create purchase orders with specifications of projects/campaigns for all outside purchases.



DPI

• Information Technology & Services
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Customer Service

  • May 2007 - Oct 2008

  Print & Fulfillment production coordination.Customer service (trade clients and walk in).



St Ives Financial (Packard Press)

• Print Procurement & Project Coordinator

  • Jan 1995 - Jan 2007

  Project coordinator and scheduling of all internal campaigns and all outsourced production.Responsible for outsourcing financial & commercial print along with fulfillment and mailing functions to a pool of partners including, web printers, high end commercial prints, fulfillment providers and mailing suppliers.Quality assurance of all projects produced both internally and outsourced to supplier-partners.Responsible for developing plans for internal and external production that provided the most cost effective production without jeopardizing client's delivery expectations. This often required meeting with both clients and supplier-partners to review projects from start to finish.Facilitated estimate request for all outsourced functions including advanced schedule verification.Tracking status of all print projects to ensue schedules and quality are being met.Purchasing of all paper for Digital Print department, scheduling of docutech and iGen equipment in the Digital department.