James Reed

• Transition point person on new healthcare account being established at prepress facility.
• Quality control of all ad-hoc material produced from offshore division, making sure new and existing artwork, images are usable and brand styles are followed. Created flyers, brochures, postcards, newsletters and manuals.
• In-house creative for states that needed new creative work due to government regulations. Created flyers, brochures, postcards, newsletters and manuals.
• SME, Responsible for establishing/creating new branding templates and style guide adherence, along with artwork updating.
• Managed multiple project schedules (incoming/outgoing) on a daily basis in a fast paced environment for in-house and offshore teams ensuring due dates for deliverables are met. Deliverables to client, printers and translation. PDF workflow being used.
•Train fellow new team members on workflows and program usages (job tracker, RRD care).
•Self-motivated and able to work independently.

Graphic Production Artist/QC/Prepress/Online-Team lead * Lead Production artist for the Sears/Kmart circulars and Offshore Hawaii. * Combined design knowledge/style guides, art director's input and marketing information to create multiple page circulars. * Lead QC/Prepress operator for the pre-flighting of jobs to outside vendors, utilizing a pdf print ready workflow. * Created operating procedures for the building of pages and pre-flighting for the production team. * As the team lead I was responsible for managing jobs through various approval/correction stages with internal business units and outside vendors. Including weekly reviews with Art director. * Assisted production manager in her absence. * Built company weekly ad pages for the online portion of the company website.