Experience

IEEE Spectrum

• United States
• Book and Periodical Publishing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Print Production Specialist

  • Jun 2022 - Present



Meredith Corporation

• United States
• Book and Periodical Publishing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Production Director

  • Oct 2015 - Aug 2022

  Shape Magazine • Manage the Woodwing print workflow from beginning to close, including routing pages and managing production department to ensure work is done in a timely and effective manner. • Create and manage the yearly editorial production and prepress schedules. • Preflight final DBL pages for production quality including overall appearance, silos, bleed checks, adherence to style guide and quality checklist. • Troubleshoot K4, InDesign, InCopy problems and support staff on workflow issues. • Create and manage style sheets, libraries, templates and stylebooks. • Responsible for managing and coordinating the color direction of the magazine and working closely with art directors, photo editors, designers and digital image specialists to ensure quality separation of images for press. Show less



Time Inc.

• United States
• Book and Periodical Publishing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Production Manager

  • Aug 2015 - Oct 2015

  People Books, Time Life Books • Responsible for routing proofs for final review and approval. • Reviewed and managed color correction of images to retouchers. • Retouched images as needed for silos, color corrections and image enhancements. People Books, Time Life Books • Responsible for routing proofs for final review and approval. • Reviewed and managed color correction of images to retouchers. • Retouched images as needed for silos, color corrections and image enhancements.



American Media, Inc.

• Graphic Designer Production

  • Mar 2015 - Aug 2015

  Muscle & Fitness, Flex International Magazines• Conceptualize and design FOB and feature stories relating to health and fitness.• Liaise with foreign editors and creative director to create monthly stories.• Work closely with translators to reformat U.S. titles to German and French. • Flow and style all text onto layouts and attach article assignments to editors.

• Assistant Managing Editor/Production Director

  • May 2012 - Feb 2015

  Shape, Fit Pregnancy & Natural Health Magazines• Responsible for managing, scheduling, trafficking and the production of three monthly magazines.• Work with Executive Managing Editor to meet all daily and weekly ship goals.• Review all final preflight quality checks including overall appearance and stylesheet checklist.• Assist in shipping all pages to printer utilizing the Dalim ES3 and Virtual Publisher software.



451 Imaging

• New York City

• Production Manager

  • Feb 2011 - Apr 2012

  • Direct all post-production, editing, and retouching throughout the creative process to final approval and delivery for publications and clients such as Self, Lucky, Women’s Health, Ogilvy & Mather and Target. • Work directly with photographers, creative directors and photo directors to ensure the highest quality retouching. • Manage and assign projects to all retouchers. • Create all detailed estimates and invoices. • Manage highly fluxuating detailed calendar. • Direct all post-production, editing, and retouching throughout the creative process to final approval and delivery for publications and clients such as Self, Lucky, Women’s Health, Ogilvy & Mather and Target. • Work directly with photographers, creative directors and photo directors to ensure the highest quality retouching. • Manage and assign projects to all retouchers. • Create all detailed estimates and invoices. • Manage highly fluxuating detailed calendar.



Hearst Magazines

• United States
• Media Production
• 700 & Above Employee

• Production Associate

  • Mar 2001 - Nov 2008

  Town & Country Magazine• Delegated an efficient work flow of layouts between art and editorial departments to ensure proficient production of pages from start to finish.• Responsible for managing and coordinating the color direction of the magazine and working closely with art directors, designers, and digital image specialists to ensure quality separation of images for prepress.• Maintained and managed traffic logs of art, photographs and illustrations used for press.• Managed and pre-flighted all files for accuracy and prepared pdf layouts for pre-press to ship to printer.• Coordinated and maintained monthly manufacturing schedules and deadlines. Show less

• Production Assistant

  • Oct 2000 - Mar 2001

  Town & Country Magazine• Responsible for the production of layouts from final copy stage through to final film.• Maintain the scheduled deadline times for original art to printers and maintain and traffic all original art.



North Jersey Media Group

• United States
• Book and Periodical Publishing
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Layout Designer

  • May 1998 - Oct 2000

  • Responsible for laying out ads utilizing the ALS Ad Layout System. • Engaged closely with editors, advertising representatives, and production design team to produce copy, art, and photographs for newspaper layouts. • Maintain the scheduled deadline times for printing pages to negative. • Knowledgeable in a number of printing techniques including, 4 color process, tabloid, and broad sheet pages. • Responsible for laying out ads utilizing the ALS Ad Layout System. • Engaged closely with editors, advertising representatives, and production design team to produce copy, art, and photographs for newspaper layouts. • Maintain the scheduled deadline times for printing pages to negative. • Knowledgeable in a number of printing techniques including, 4 color process, tabloid, and broad sheet pages.