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Work Experience

Experience 1995-Present
VP Manufacturing, Evergreen Printing and Publishing Co., Inc.
Sprearheaded operations for a 300-employee, 5-facility printing company, engaged in the printing of an international list of high-quality daily newspapers and magazines including the Financial Times and the Christian Science Monitor. Functional departments are pre-press, coldset press, heatset press, post-press, bindery, warehousing, fulfillment and list management services. Presses used: Goss HV; Goss Community; Harris V15D; Harris M110B; Harris M1000; MANRoland Rotoman 45
· Reduced pre-press costs by 30 percent through converting to complete Computer-to-Plate
· Managed acquisition of post-press division and brought to profitability in 18 months.
· Doubled output of Financial Times inserting lines through re-engineering.
· Negotiated and purchased 2 Rotoman heatset press lines to quadruple heatset output and increase quality.
· Installed plant-wide management information system with computerized, real-time cost reporting for every job.
· Opened the budgeting and planning process to department staff.

1984-1995
Production Director, Bridgeton Evening News Co., Inc.
A daily newspaper of 11,000 circulation with large Commercial printing interests. Goss Urbanite, 6 units, 2 formers.
· Purchased and managed editorial “front-end” computer system.
· Obtained a 20 percent cost reduction in inserting through purchase of machine inserting equipment and pressroom conveying and stacking equipment that also increased throughput and capacity.
· Improved delivery and circulation with reformed deadlines for daily to enforce on-time performance.
· Marketed and operated $2MM publication printing business which was consistently profitable.
· Witnessed transition from family to chain ownership. Served on committee to expand American Publishing Co. publication printing nationwide.


Other Major Accomplishments
· Created a Publication Printing business and achieved growth rates of 25% per year on under-utilized Urbanite Press.
· Instrumental in establishing the successful daily newspaper, Today’s Sunbeam, in September 1972.
· Major local producer of pre-printed advertising inserts for the Delaware Valley when the insert business was in its infancy.
· Started weekly newspaper, converted to paid circulation and outsold established weekly in area.
· Early newspaper experience included editing, reporting, photography, photo-editing, advertising sales, advertising sales

Education

1969 AB Shimer College, Mt. Carroll, IL Social Sciences
Specialized in Economics
Radio Station News Director
Impressario of Student Coffee House
1991 MBA Philadelphia University, Philadelphia, PA
Specialized in interface between Production and Marketing
Elected to Delta Mu Delta, Honorary Business Fraternity
1962 Certificate, National High School Institute for Journalism Northwestern University, Evanston IL

Skills

Coordination, Scheduling, Logistics

Languages

English, German (rusty)

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