SUMMARY:

Printing professional with high level of understanding and experience with all p
roduction departments. Experience in all sectors of printing including agency, p
ublications, retail, and packaging. Particular expertise in prepress as film ass
embler, trapper, CSR, production manager, Q.C. technician, customer and vendor t
echnical support, including database and production automation. Trained and coac
hed customers, operators and managers in technical details. A team member with e
xcellent color vision who develops innovative, effective and efficient programs
and solutions aligned with business goals.
Core Strength:
* Accurately solving problems with detailed analysis, traditional analog, and di
gital experience
HIGHLIGHTS:
* Created a user centric software application to augment Schawk San Francisco's
Digital Asset Management to quickly locate Apple Inc's archived images. Cut dail
y search time from hours to minutes. 2007
* Foster City Applied Graphics Technologies - Built new Color database that grea
tly simplified our CSR team's ability to manufacture, track, ship and bill 3000
image corrections per month * produced higher billings and provided a defensible
record of manufacturing costs. 2000.
* Created an ultimate quality screenless facsimile print of a rare Mary Cassatt
color etching for the Achenbach Museum of San Francisco in partnership with Davi
d Lance Goines at Saint Heironymous Press. 1981
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
SCHAWK, San Francisco 2005-2009. Account Coordinator lll for Apple Inc. Account.
Performed typical customer service duties for multiple buyers to enable the next
shift's production. Worked with supervisor to create new technical writing form
ats combined with quick diagrammatic illustrations to ensure all manufacturing t
eams were successfully producing daily proofs on the most critical, complicated,
and time sensitive projects for Apple's stores worldwide.
* Improved standardization of project specifications
APPLIED GRAPHICS / SEVEN WORLDWIDE, Foster City 1995-2005. CSR / Quality Control
Technician / Database Manager / User-centric application developer
I wore many hats at Applied Graphics Technologies, worked in various technical d
epartments as needed. Along the way, solved problems with software apps to add p
rofit, reduce complexity, save time, lower mistake frequency and assure that del
iverables were correct to customer and printer specifications.
* Reverse engineered a custom in-house application which formatted and proofed 4
000 publication pages per month. Added automation features and enhanced quality
assurance for shipping files and proofs.
* Franklin Templeton Investments account: Created a WIP tracking and shipping so
lution for Applied Graphic's on site team.
* Managed database of printer specifications, composing and verifying all data a
nd making any structural changes as necessary.
* Osborne / McGraw-Hill account: Wrote application to build die lines for casebo
und covers eliminating proof spoilage and reducing build time 100 fold.
* Oracle account: created script to Quality Control shipping postscript files an
d format a report to catch build errors unseen on proofs eliminating errors at p
rinter RIP.
STAR GRAPHIC ARTS 1989-1994 Foster City and Brisbane, CA - Swing shift productio
n manager. Highest quality Apple Computer collateral, magazine ads , and packagi
ng. Managed exposure equipment to hold film dot gain to 1% cumulative through 5
film generations. Scored 100% on Farnsworth-Munsell 100 Hue Test for color discr
imination * tested 1991 & 1993.
SAINT HIERONYMUS PRESS - Journeyman Pressman, Journeyman Film Striper,
Machinery engineer.
* Exacting complex color work, typesetting, photography, separations.
* Designed and rebuilt the feeder mechanism of a Solna press for continuous feed
ing resulting in improved through put and higher quality.
ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE:
O.N.E Emeryville, CA - Film Assembly and Step Machine Operator.
MIKE ROBERTS COLOR PRODUCTIONS - Prepress foreman.
STATE OF CALIFORNIA, Oroville Dam Project - Construction quality control testing
Lithographers 280L, Journeyman Pressman
GCIU Local 580, Journeyman Stripper
EDUCATION:
University of California, Berkeley. Engineering and Architecture
University of California, Davis. Art
Sacramento City College, AA Physics and Biology