Mark Redetzke

It is a honor to shape and share the brand story, and to help develop business for a growing organization that has a heart. MKE Iron Erectors is a dedicated team safely delivering division 3 and 5 construction services, and resilient consulting based on expertise enhanced by Lean thinking. We are driven by our mission to, "build prosperity, and better communities," and by our values of safety, resilience, and respect. How can we be of service to you?

* Facilitate efficient communications between sales, production and Chinese neon manufacturers to ensure orders are fulfilled to client specifications and timelines.

* Gathered and verified data to develop competitive quotes in a time-sensitive environment.

* Responsible for pre-flighting client artwork making it production ready, and for proper development and review of prototypes which met our client's expectations.

* Hands-on director motivated by the challenge of spearheading projects to a successful completion. Brainstorming, creative design, presentation, quoting, print production - it's all good. Our efforts stimulated corporate profits and differentiated iconic Bon-Ton brands.

* Versatile designer responsible for producing innovative solutions for a wide variety of visual merchandising needs including: signing, dimensional displays, large format graphics and shop environments. Designs integrated into everything from garment hangtags to apps.

* Confident organizer able to juggle multiple projects in a fast-paced environment. Listening, strategic thinking, team mentoring and fostering communication are vital aspects of my process.

* Experienced fiscal-minded designer skilled at quoting and dedicated to ensuring the highest quality outcome at the best price. Improved processes by implementing a "three quote" policy spurring healthy competition between vendors that slashed production costs.

* Expert at vendor relations. Expanded production efficiency by building a culture in which vendors understood their long-term success was based on their excellence as well as their cost-saving efforts.

* Managed prototype development, substrate selection and press checks.

* Creative communicator responsible to support proposals that secured millions of dollars in vendor funding from companies like Ralph Lauren, Disney, Keurig, and Clinique.

* Developed high quality, innovative signage and displays consistently differentiating Saks' Northern Division store brands from the competition.

* Efficiently managed production of multiple projects in a fast-paced environment. During these years I honed my expertise in Adobe Photoshop, and Adobe Illustrator while increasing my production art and photo retouching skills.

* Consistently met project deadlines and objectives and became the "go-to-guy" for specialty projects.