John Brotbeck

Senior packaging engineer of custom packaging and displays for one of the top five packaging distributors in North America.

Lead Designer for large national accounts such as P&G, Reckitt Benckiser, E&J Gallo, and many others. Focused on structural design and manufacturing layouts for litho and digital printing and die-cutting.

* Designing structural packaging for consumer and B2B usage from corrugated, folding carton, foam, honeycomb and assorted materials * Leading teams of 30+ designers nationally and 4+ designers locally. * Designs from our team contributed to a 48% sales win rate * Designing for 1200+ sales reps and handling 30+ projects per week * 50% P.O.P, 20% consumer, 20% industrial, 10% sourcing PROGRAM S KILLS ArtiosCAD (expert level) AutoCAD Laserpoint TOPS Adobe Creative Suite Illustrator Photoshop Acrobat Microsoft Office

Worked as lead of a two person team to design corrugated packaging across many industries, for a sales force of 8+ reps. Helped manage transition from AshlarScore CAD to ArtiosCAD. Performed duties of the HAZMAT Coordinator 75% industrial, 25% P.O.P.

* Work with local area regional sales rep team, outside brokers, and corporate graphic designer to design and prototype corrugated designs. * Went on occasional sales calls with reps. * 70% brown box, 30% P.O.P HANDS O N S KILLS Sample Tables Kongsberg DataTech Flexography Offset Lithography Thermoforming Wide Format Digital Roland Rastek Printer/Plotters Sketching Paper Testing ISTA & HAZMAT Admin

* Started out under the existing designer, then took on the full department alone. * Designed without aid of CAD drawing software or CAD cutting table. * 50% brown box, 40% industrial, 10% POP

* Assisted Designer one half of each day, and the Quality Manager the other half * Made corrugated prototypes * Performed paper and combined board testing for a corrugator plant * Helped organize cutting die inventory