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Creative Services Coordinator
Positive Promotions
Hauppauge, NY
May 2022 - Present (2 years 7 months)
• Chief assistant to the Brand Director
- Made immediate impact on workflow efficiency and interdepartmental communication
- Created job title and folder naming convention
- Coordinated photo studio clean-up
- Built and onboarded Smartsheets forms for photoshoots
- Artwork updates and finalize creative when needed
• Catalog and organize sales project requests, assign to the design team
- Request form created for all sales projects; Decks, Lookbooks, Presentations,
Sell Sheets, Box Designs, Box Templates, etc.
• Schedule and traffic projects to ensure timely release for campaigns
- Weekly meeting reports and reminders
- Meeting alerts created for web team
• Clean and organize servers and infrastructure for better efficiencies
• Creative liaison between departments; create and implement procedures
• Office Manager – order supplies, maintain Epson printers, initiating appreciation day
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PrePress Supervisor
Melville, NY
Mar 2005 - Present (19 years 9 months)
High-Volume, Fast-Paced Ad Agency and Printer
• Oversee department and daily workflow, create envelope templates and manage artwork library
• Evaluate all WIP creative; provide expert feedback to Design, Account and Press teams in order to determine efficiencies and avoid print issues
• Review and prep all creative pieces for color, printability, accuracy and quality before files release to printer (digital, web and envelope presses)
• Tackled tremendous uptick in print testing, with new equipment, new clients and new branding colors, to ensure optimal results
• Creator and lector of orientation class that provides Wilen employees with an overview of our presses and print process
• Clients include Comcast, Cox, Embrace Home Loans, M&T Bank, Optimum, Spectrum, Stanley Steemer and others
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Production Graphic Designer
HENRY SCHEIN - Schein Creative Services
Melville, NY
Mar 2004 - Mar 2005 (1 year)
Medical/Dental/Veterinary Supply Distributor
• Create and update catalogs, brochures, flyers, ads, etc.
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Retail Packaging Graphic Designer
MULTI MEDIA ELECTRONICS, INC.
Farmingdale, NY
Jan 2001 - Sep 2004 (3 years 8 months)
Packaging for major retail stores in US, Canada and UK
• Follow branding guidelines for several package designs • Dielines, layout designs, instruction manuals
• Clean and manage the artwork library
• Photograph newly developed and existing products
• Assist with product development (ideas/pictures)