Premedia Manager Resume
New Jersey, NJ
Summary of Qualifications:
- Passion for Technology - Hands on experience in Graphic Communication Industry from printing machine maintenance to PHP based website creation.
- Demonstrated ability to conceptualize solutions to difficult situations, and employ practical, cost effective strategies.
- Upgraded Service Quality by applying continuous improvement methodologies like Kaizen, LEAN, TQM, MBWA.
- Highly innovative, detail oriented, multi-tasking and resourceful at completing projects within tight timeframes.
- Proactively disseminating project information to all stakeholders
Technical Expertise:
Premedia workflow: Adobe Creative Suite CS5.5, Pit-stop, Equiosnet (Trueflow SE), Flatworker
Digital Printing Workflow: Creo Spire, EFI Fiery, CIP4, Darwin for Variable Data,
Color Management: Oris Color Tuner, Eqiuosnet
MIS: EFI Printsmith, Nutshell, MS Office, NAS-Server
Website Development: Joomla, Wordpress, Virtuemart, HTML, CSS, XML
ELearning Development: Flash, Action Script 1.0, Virtual SourceSafe
Photography: Product Photography with Photo-editing
Working knowledge of TQM principles such as Lean, Six Sigma, Kaizen, DOE, FMEA.
Education:
Masters of Science - Technology Management (Graphic and Printing Management)
Bachelor of Engineering (Printing Engineering and Graphic Communication)
Professional Experience
Confidential,Premedia Manager Aug 08 – Present
Position: Reporting to the President
- Added assets in the company by bringing in technological advancements that helped to cater the sales figures increase from 3.6M to 4.5M per year.
- Responsible for pre-sales support: design and conceptualization of marketing collaterals, websites and web-portals
- Head prepress, digital printing, and technological upgrades.
- Color Management based on Pantone Matching System, ICC profiles.
- Fingerprinting - Maintenance, Calibration & Color profiling per ISO Standards
- Create pilot websites in CMS – Joomla Wordpress. Evaluate and allocate vendors for offsite design/web development.
- Maintain reports, schedules, inventory management for prepress
- Interview candidates and provide training about technology and work methods regarding processes, safety etc.
Confidential,Founder March 10 – Nov10
• Chalked out organization\'s philosophy, mission, strategy, annual goals and objectives.
• Developed strategies and Market Research to bring business and generated sales up to $15,000.
• Implemented the strategic goals and objectives of the organization.
• Supported operations and administration by advising and informing members, for business growth
• Oversaw design, marketing, promotion, delivery and quality of programs, products and services.
Confidential,Graphic Designer Feb 05 Aug 07
• Designed Structure Documentation for Learning Content Management System. (LCMS)
• UI design for LCMS and in house learning software.
• Manage project to ensure that objectives are achieved within time/cost/quality constraints.
• Design, typeset and preflight documents and upload them to FTP.
• Elearning asset management
• Designed and implemented structure documentation for ISO 9000 QMS.
Confidential,Production Management Engineer July 02 – Jan 05
• Control and supervision of workforce 30 in day and night shift. (Newspaper production)
• Inventory control of paper, ink and other consumables.
• Production planning and makeready of machines to suit production needs.
• Quality inspection at every stage of the printing process according to ISO 9000/12646/7 norms
• Initializing lean six-sigma procedure to reduce wastage and variance.
• Monthly reports of production activity, waste control, consumables and pareto analysis.
• Training of management & production trainees.
• Print process standardization for new installations and profiling of machines (Fingerprinting).