Work History
July 2009 – Present
McGraw-Hill Companies
Production Supervisor
- Supervising a team of production coordinators
- Achieve budget requirements by assigning and managing people and vendor resources.
- Resolve escalated process, performance, vendor, or relationship issues.
- Promote corporate vision and initiatives with direct reports.
- Attend cross-functional meeting and manage projects for process improvement.
March 2008 – November 2008
McGraw-Hill Companies
Publishing Systems Specialist
- Installation, training, and support of K4 and Creative Suite publishing solutions across multiple locations and for multiple users.
2007 – 2009
McGraw-Hill Companies
Production Coordinator
- Managing and coordinating all production processes to ensure vendors meet the requirements for a print product, including template creation, page composition and review, and component-level scheduling.
- Provide weekly and monthly status reports, project specification tracking, and budgetary tracking
2002 – 2007
Suburban News Publications
Art Department Production Coordinator
- Supervising production staff
- Paginating weekly newspapers and creating ads for 100-150 weekly advertisers.
- Proofing pages for 22 newspapers using Agfa Page-Pair soft-proof software for CtP printing.
1999 – 2002
Suburban News Publications
Production Coordinator
- Paginating weekly newspapers
- Creating ads and receiving corrections or changes on advertisements for 100-150 weekly advertisers.
- Supervising production staff
1996-1999
Primary Care-giver of my son from the age of 2-5.
1994-1995
Limited Credit Services (Now Allied Data Systems) Credit Collection Associate
- Calling and attempting to bring current a queue of 100-150 delinquent credit accounts.
Skills
Proficient in:
- Macintosh OS X
- Microsoft Windows
- Microsoft Office suite
- FileMaker Pro 11
- Quark XPress
- Adobe Creative Suite
- Macromedia Freehand
- Macromedia Dreamweaver
- Multi-Ad Creator 4 and 6
- Agfa PagePair, and APS Imposition and Proofing Software
- InSite Page imposition and reviewing software
Education
- 1991-1993 The Ohio State University
- 1989-1991 Upper Arlington High School Upper Arlington, Ohio Member, National Art Honors Society
- 1988-1989 Richard Montgomery High School Rockville, Maryland Member, International Baccalaureate program
