ACCOMPLISHMENTS

The Whole Enchilada: Started a design/print/web/ business at the request of a former client that has been going strong since 1999.

ThinkTank Advertising: Rebuilt art department from ground up, turning profits from 30% to 45% in the first three months.

Marketing And: Again, rebuilt art department and increased profits in the first three months. Per principals "The problems of production are solved after eight years in business".

The Upper Deck Company: For two years managed over 200 active jobs, while preventing lost revenues of one million dollars per day due to late product launches.

The Upper Deck Company: Successfully managed the development of several new foil and print applications along with assisting in the development of optically engineered substrates for stereo holographic imagery and a CD-ROM baseball card.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

10/99 to present; The Whole Enchilada: Owner.
Started a design/print/web agency at request of marketing vice president of dot com company to managed collateral production/printing and tradeshow management. Responsibilities include, account management, creative, new product development, operations and new client recruitment. Clients list includes; Kay Home Products, Mulligan Family Fun Center, Beverly Hills Mercedes, Just Products, Inc., Squarehole Winches, Jack Nadel, Inc., Ace Hardware, and Maker Enterprises.

4/97 to 10/99; Marketing And: Director of Creative Services.
Managed creative operations for projects from concept to final product. Developed approximately 1,000 print jobs annually for primary client AST Computer, with print billings alone up to 10 million a year. Responsibilities include all buyouts, estimates, managing production staff, maintaining equipment and overall operations and procedures.

5/96 to 4/97; Container Concepts: General Manager.
Recruited to start an in-house advertising department for existing clients and potential new business. Additionally, coordinated packaging production for Mattel, Deflecta-Shield Automotive and The Upper Deck Company. Types of packaging included litho-laminated corrugated boxes, corrugated inserts, corrugated shippers, retail boxes and retail displays. Additional duties include automating sales support staff and linking operations to accounting via Windows NT 3.51.This interface included generating new in-house materials from work orders to pallet load-tags all integrated with Excel.

11/94 to 5/96;ThinkTank Advertising: Production Manager.
Managed and traffic all aspects of the art department. To include: estimating, trafficking, managing staff, freelancers, project budgets and all company buy-outs. Additionally, worked very closely with accounting department to ensure all billables are current and accurate. Personally maintained MIS support. Took major rolls in initial concept meetings along with the engineering of working comps.

8/91 to 11/94 The Upper Deck Company:
1/94 to 11/94. Creative Technologies; Product Manager; Responsibilities include scheduling and monitoring of activities related both to product based production as well as research and development testing. My position required technological specific research to evaluate and understand potentials, production concerns, tolerances required for proper function and out-plant vendor source options.

8/91 to 1/94. Baseball Traffic Manager; Traffic and manage all product, packaging, sales collateral and print ads for Major/Minor League Baseball and World Cup Soccer. Also picked up single-series launches of National Hockey League and National Football League products when necessary due to under-staffing. Position required maintaining and updating both daily and weekly schedules. Act as a liaison between art, copywriting, typesetting, marketing, pre-press, press, packaging and legal departments.

8/88 to 2/91 Crest Advertising/Atlas Hotels: Production Manager/Art Director.
Managed print ads, menus, signage and sales collateral materials from concept to completion. I was quickly promoted from Production Artist to Production Manager/Art Director within first year. Responsibilities included managing four production artists, two copywriters as well as keeping invoices current with accounts payable.

References and salary history available upon request.