Production Artist

• Jun 2016 - Present

Senior Prepress Designer

• Nov 2015 - Jun 2016

Graphic Coordinator

• May 2013 - Oct 2015

• Maintained over 20 high volume customers including: Kimberly Clark, First Quality, Lewis Bakeries, Versalite, Rockline Industries, McAirlaid's. • Communicated with sales, customer service, art houses & clients. • Responsible for gathering all data necessary to enter in flexographic print requests. • Worked with bakery bags, personal care/medical, frozen foods, shrink wrap and rollstock products. • Used Data Manager and J.D. Edwards to setup jobs for multiple plants. • Responsible for gathering on plates, inks, cylinder sizes and all aspects of Flexo printing. • Proofed files before sending out for customer approval. • Communicated with art houses to provide specs for vendor supplied files. • Tracked the status of jobs at all times in case of customer/sales inquiry. • Tracked and managed over 50 jobs at a time. • Responsible for quoting & billing jobs. • Required excellent time management, organization skills, communication and follow up. Show less

Prepress Specialist

• Nov 2006 - Mar 2013

Primary responsibilities included communicating with customers via e-mail, phone, fax and face to face; answering main phone lines; providing estimates/quotes for artwork setup; entering new jobs into the internal ordering system, preflighting customer supplied files; preparing customer supplied files for printing via Xerox iGen and Nuvera; communicating with mailhouse and preparing databases to go to the mailhouse for direct mail pieces; designing & creating of posters, flyers, postcards and promotional products using Adobe Creative Suite; troubleshooting computer to printer errors; communicated with printer operators & production department to ensure that customer deadlines are met. Required excellent time management, communication and interpersonal skills. Show less

Color Prep / Prepress

• May 2004 - Nov 2006

Primary responsibilities included communicating with customers via e-mail, phone, fax and face to face; answering main phone lines; providing estimates/quotes for artwork setup; entering new jobs into the internal ordering system, preflighting customer supplied files; preparing customer supplied files for printing via Xerox iGen and Nuvera; communicating with mailhouse and preparing databases to go to the mailhouse for direct mail pieces; designing & creating of posters, flyers, postcards and promotional products using Adobe Creative Suite; troubleshooting computer to printer errors; communicated with printer operators & production department to ensure that customer deadlines are met. Required excellent time management, communication and interpersonal skills. Show less