Carmen Rivera

• Coordinated with other departments to ensure projects were completed on time and within budget.
• Maintained calendars of upcoming events, meetings and deadlines.
• Collaborated with vendors to arrange meetings, updates and workflow.
• Facilitated communication between different departments in order to resolve issues quickly.
• Managed day-to-day operations of the department including scheduling tasks and duties.
• Maintained records of color proofs, ink drawdowns, PDFs sent to customers for their review and approval.
• Reviewed and approved final art for prepress company to release art files for printer.
• Assisted other departments fulfilling documentation for regulatory compliance.

• Responsible for store price signage.
• Coordinate with company buyers and showroom managers the necessary signage for the stores.
• Keep up with changing signages as price change and/or for special sales.
• Maintained inventory for printer supplies (inks and roll of papers used).
• Proofread all material prior to submission ensuring accuracy of content.
• Generated digital image files for use in digital and traditional printing.

• Layouts and page production for the five weekly publications which include features, hard news, calendar, events, sponsored news, cover design and more.
• Layouts and page production for the various special publications such as Medical Answer Book, Education Answer Book, Relocation Answer Book and Community Answer Book.
• Editing photos for optimal quality on a four-color printing press.
• Follow design styles set by our design team
• Some light copy editing which includes headlines and captions.
• Processing pages for final production and coordinating jobs with printer.
• Create and upload the digital versions of our print publications to the web.
• Coordinate with news staff to lay out stories for print using InDesign.

• Processing files from planning to production: includes pre-flight, correcting customer files, layout, creating templates and job preparation for digital print.
• Analyze files provided by clients and assess suitability for printing, checking and double-checking images and text, double check proofs for quality and correctness before sending to digital print.
• Troubleshoot and fix files to include layout, color, image and text.
• Create proofs for client's review and approval, unless adjustments are necessary requiring another proof.
• Convert approved images files for use with digital printing.
• Maintain customers files, archiving and file destruction based on customer requirements.

• Assisted in other department when the need arised to meet deadlines with packing materials. for events.

• Ensure compliant and accurate labeling.
• Design/redesign/update labels, packages, instruction booklets and other items pertaining to the medical devices and their containers.
• Proofreading labels and instruction booklets as an additional layer of revising and verification copy on these items.
• Responsible for many clerical procedures that include: assigning numbers to projects; create folders for projects; keep up with all different kind of documents of a project and place in folder; track folders and document location of folders; proofread artwork; participate in team meetings; load folder to system with their cover reports and infocards; etc.
• Fill forms and reports on a daily, weekly and monthly basis.

• Keeping and following design standards of the company in every project.
• Whether print or online, one has to follow the rules for uniform look of products for consistency.
• These consistencies in branding had to be adapted to each of the divisions within the company.
• Each division has a different feel and appeal but bottomline is that in a way they have to say we are part of this company.
• Responsible for designing promotional pieces such as catalogs, brochures, flyers, news mails, traffic stoppers for the different divisions within the company.
• After meeting with the director of the division, a game plan would be made which included a timeline for designing, looking for the right photo from our library of references, asking the copy editor to help with the text to convey the messages needed, reviewing the art, make necessary corrections, and get the art ready (the PDFs) for the printer, meeting the deadline And as part of this process, to proofread the art to make sure spelling, punctuation, and everything pertaining to the text/copy of the piece, is error free.
• Designing labels and packages for the garments manufactured and sold by the company.
• Provide clients with promotional materials (photos) for stores (posters, signs, etc.) as well as for their web, as well as photos of product references for their stores to make their customers aware that they carry our brand.
• Did translations (Spanish and English) for promotional materials for the different divisions, as well as the employee handbook for the company.
• Revised information, photos, etc.
• Used in catalogs and brochures for quality before going to printer - pre press.
• Whether I had worked on the project myself or not, I would revised the project before it went to the printer.
• Working closely with others (from inventory) to double check that the references were available and that the colors, sizes, prices and other information was correct and as up to date as possible at the time the piece would go to the printer.
• Once the piece is ready, would make the PDF and revised it to make sure everything is how the printer needs it and then send PDF to the printer.
• Did inventory of supplies used in the design department. This included making sure we had the necessary ink replacements and paper and size paper for the copier/printer.

• Responsible for keeping the design standards in the overall look and styles of the weekly publication.
• Weekly meetings (with editors, reporters, and photographer) were held for planning purposes of what material would be in the next edition of the newspaper.
• Worked in other specialized publications which included a monthly parenting magazine and quarterly magazines for health and legal matters. These meetings were held with the team (editors, reporters, photographer) of each publication.
• The subject for the main story would be suggested and developed, as well as other stories for that particular publication.
• Created maps, graphics and other necessary visuals, helping illustrate the stories requiring an extra hand of information which allowed the reader to see where it happened or what route to avoid, or work been done in a stretch of a highway... These additional visual elements helped enhance the readers' experience and understanding of a story. This also helped in a break from so much text while still providing the reader with information presented in a different way.
• Collaborated with reporters, editors and photographer in choosing photographs to be used in storytelling.
• Light copy editing, proofreading, suggestions for titles/headlines, photo captions and so forth like catching certain details that others would miss.
• Proofreading came in handy for it was another set of eyes looking at the copy to make sure there are consistencies in names, etc and avoiding errors in the copy of the article.
• Met deadlines on a weekly basis for the newspaper.
• Working with reporters and editors about the status of a story so that one could work the page layout/design.
• Reviewed the layout, the photos and everything else in those pages before making the PDFs, before sending these to the printer.
• Contributed to the digital strategy, uploading the digital versions of the weekly newspaper and the monthly and quarterly magazines.
• Every week or month, depending on which publication, made sure that it was uploaded to our web so that those that rather read online could have access to them.