I can assure you that my experience, attitude, and entrepreneurial drive will propel this venture forward at the speed of novel thought and efficient execution.

A wealth of Marketing/Design, Project Management, HTML design for internet / website / e-blasts, print expertise, direct mail, copy writing, and efficiency in Adobe PhotoShop, Illustrator, InDesign, MS Office, advertising, concept-based creative production, PR, an abundance of analytic skills, assessment, process implementation, strategic sales, PLUS incredible business acumen;

Cost conscious yet quality driven, outside-the-box approach & solutions with measurable results;

Included a link to my web site and a few other links of recent work that illustrates my innovative and well-rounded project management skills with a clear & focused approach on long range business success.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

MS Excel/Word/PowerPoint/Project, Adobe CS3, Quark XPress, Ariba modules, FileMaker Pro, SAP, PeopleSoft, STAR Demonstrated leadership, excellent presentation/speaking skills, knowledge & understanding of multiple goods & services

DETAILED EXPERIENCE

ARTFUL MIND

Print/Creative Director, Category Manager in Strategic Sourcing, Consultant WESTSIDE/L.A., CA 4/1997 – Present

Creative Director & digital prepress expert for marketing/advertising collateral/digital tools, including HTML
Perform direction, consultation, and technical support in all phases of Mac/PC digital design & digital prepress
Conduct category analyses of industry, suppliers, best practices, and benchmarks
Develop category strategies across products, business, functional units, and supply chain
Develop & engage in category specific supply chain rationalization strategies to identify and develop Best-In-Class suppliers, contracting best value in terms & conditions, efficiency, service, & price
Perform supplier rationalization and management methodologies including sourcing/procurement of web & sheet-fed printing, finishing, fulfillment, direct mail/marketing, and local/global distribution channels
Manage budgets, scheduling, and project tracking for day-to-day operations & concurrent client work flow(s)
Sell through to c-level constituents, new & ongoing accounts targeting small-large business locally/nationally

Major Client Contracts: Amgen, Avery Dennison, Chevron, Medtronic, L.A. Newspaper Group Please refer to page 3 – “Leadership Statement”

WRIGHT COLOR GRAPHICS

Art Director/Digital Prepress Director/Account Executive GLENDALE, CA, 10/1994 – 4/1997

Managed a departmental staff of digital prepress and traditional print shop employees
Managed entire scope of workflow - from plan to pack-out
Had oversight of daily workflow & preflight intervention of all incoming digital files
Creative Director/Designer for internal and external corporate collateral goods
Account Executive for new and existing account sales
Consistently engaged clients from executive to design level for goods and services sell-through

ADM

Advertising Manager/Art Director LOS ANGELES, CA 10/1993 – 10/1994

Print Procurement Manager in U.S./Canada for web & sheet-fed presses
Graphic designer for all in-house creative for 30 national magazines advertisements
Negotiated ad placement, deadlines, insertion orders, and contracted rates
Implemented and negotiated most efficient production and freight methods
Attended and directed all major press approvals and photo shoots
Responsible for national direct-mail campaigns
Responsible for creative ads/inserts/tip-ins and negotiated/contracted placement within 30 monthly trade pubs

APPLAUSE

Senior Catalog Production Artist WOODLAND HILLS, CA 8/1991 – 10/1993

In a team setting, responsible for 7 cycles of catalog design per year, including visual display/p.o.p. production
Print procurement for sheet-fed/web press runs including press-check approvals
Production of 4-6 catalogs in each cycle ranging from 6-160 pages
Oversight of photo shoots and scheduling the photographers & stylists for sets, product, and models

JACOBS ENGINEERING GROUP

Senior Designer – Marketing & Multiple Engineering Disciplines PASADENA, CA 6/1987 – 8/1991

Implemented Mac-based design department within a mid-size engineering firm
Produced print collateral goods for Marketing, Human Resources, Corporate departments
Produced print collateral goods for ALL disciplines of Engineering including Architectural, Electrical, HVAC, and Environmental categories
I was responsible for tracking and billing on a per project basis with attention to detail where monies were spent. Intent was to eliminate billable hours footprint from Corporate overhead and as a result, reaching 100% billability

EDUCATION

Cal State University at Northridge - Music Major, BA; Pasadena/Glendale/COC City College – Business; CPM/Six Sigma (in process); Executive Business Analyst certification, GSM International

LEADERSHIP STATEMENT

With Chevron, immediately recognized the necessity/opportunity to create improvement for management & accessibility to Frequently Engaged Tracking & Category History (FETCH) data in the $350MM Global Chemicals, Catalysts, & Industrial Gases category. FETCH data is an efficiency methodology that delivers a dashboard perspective, transparency, and access to data using a “1-click” basis. The data includes supplier contact in the various categories, hyperlinks to contracts, supplements, data models for price tracking, savings data across suppliers & contracts, market trends & PPIs, and sourcing initiatives. When FETCH was presented to Chevron analysts around the globe, many adopted & benefit from this innovative category management tool.

I hold responsibility for strategic management of commodities within the Global Sourcing Organization. Tasked to lead, identify, develop, and implement strategies to increase value for internal clients, delivering cost savings. Implement strategies that range from low-high levels of risk, value, complexity, and impact. Active member of cross-functional team(s) comprised of counterparts of multiple business units, finance, and legal as required through all steps of the strategic sourcing process.

In addition, I have created a tracking & efficiency model for "Global Market Trends" data providing a 3-year perspective via quarterly updates from historical, current, and forecast data. This includes hyperlinks to current and viable data sources for trends & market insight to the commodities that are major cost drivers in the Chemicals, Catalysts, & Industrial Gases category. Another data model I created delivers Price Tracking providing formulaic pricing trends, historical, and current insight over all suppliers within the CC&IG category. With this model, we are able to gain visibility over time & contract, tracking price changes. Juxtaposed with the commodities trends model, we are able to better manage our supply chain and pricing components integral to the contract.

In my role at Avery, I completed the implementation of an intranet solution for stationery procurement through PeopleSoft and ARIBA. The challenge was building a bridge over the gap between true functionality and a global approach of rapid deployment and ease-of-use for the 13,000 employees engaging the system. Through cross-divisional communication and pre-bid meetings with marketing stakeholders, RFP process management with a rationalized supply base, focused approach to analyzing worst-case scenarios and implementing solutions, end users are now able to see the results of their stationery spend in real time through this online interface. Through a top-tier approach delivered at a programming level, we resolved space confinements and unpredictable source data dumps to the system simply and effectively. Performance based KPIs implemented as part of transparent metrics methodology.

I also led an initiative to reduce the $13MM Display/Point of Purchase print spend, implementing immediate and sustainable solutions in print procurement. Through insightful industry and sales analysis, vendor and stakeholder interviews, data management, process standardization, and rationalizing & managing a new and existing supplier database, I was able to create and build an impressive data-gathering vehicle including a tracking delivery method for all detailed components and the key cost drivers - materials & transportation. In addition, the front-to-back process workflow was successfully improved.

Amgen provided the opportunity to develop & implement a robust project/inventory tracking method, delivering clear visibility throughout the creative/production process of 150-180 concurrent projects with multi-level accountability and oversight accessibility by cross-divisional stakeholders / project managers / c-level constituents.

Overall, my experience has provided in depth global management, strategic procurement and front-to-back process insight in various categories, including collateral marketing, point-of-purchase display, supply tracking & management, direct mail, advertising, research, catalog, IT, event marketing, promotional goods, design, contracts, technical documentation, and packaging categories. In addition, I invented, developed, patented, produced, and delivered a line of novel products to the party good & pop/display industry. I produce elaborate marketing tools from product placement & photo shoots and working with models, contracts, press checks, & finished printed goods & their distribution.

I have a wide breadth of management experience that gives you the versatility to place me in a number of contexts with assurance that the high level of excellence you expect will be met.