Experience

TradeNet Publishing, Inc.

• United States
• Printing Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Prepress Manager

  • Jun 2021 - Present



Modern Litho - Kansas City

• United States
• Printing Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Desktop Team Lead

  • Jul 2018 - Jun 2021

• Prepress Manager

  • Dec 1995 - Jun 2018

  Established pre-press department. Trained new and existing employees applying Fuji, CGS, Esko, EFI and Kodak workflows, imagesetting films and digital proofing. Migrated to direct-to-film workflow that included imposition & digital asset management. As company grew and changed locations, planned and designed new department with total digital workflow & direct-to-plate equipment. I also train customers in regards to software and workflows as it pertains to quality printing data input. Responsible for daily job scheduling, training, hiring, employee evaluations, equipment maintenance, quality control, and color management."I want it to look like my computer screen." will be etched on my Tombstone



Gazlay Marketing Group

• Production Artist

  • Jan 1991 - Dec 1995

  Scitex Prisma Operator. Remember those things?Production artist working on Scitex workstations where I later incorporated postscript workflow using applications such as QuarkXpress, Illustrator, Photoshop. Operations with drum scanning, film output, initial digital inkjet proofing devices. Scitex Prisma Operator. Remember those things?Production artist working on Scitex workstations where I later incorporated postscript workflow using applications such as QuarkXpress, Illustrator, Photoshop. Operations with drum scanning, film output, initial digital inkjet proofing devices.