My Resume

To find a fulfilling career that makes the best use of my skills with your company.

Meredith/Burda was purchased by R.R. Donnelley Printing in 1990. I worked in various positions for these companies for 32 years but was forced to change careers when the graphics center in Lynchburg was closed in 2002. The classes that I have taken since leaving RR Donnelley have prepared me for a new career in Information services. I have been working in the IT department of JCREW/EDS since 2003.That and my management experience working in a team based environment plus the fact that I am a good worker and I learn quickly makes me confident I would be a valuable member of your team.

IT Dept 2003 - present

EDS / at Jcrew

Senior Computer operator, Monitoring and running jobs run on CL86 mainframe, Sending and answering E-mails, processing BW reports through PC-Anywhere on multiple PCs, Major report printing on 2 IBM printers. Working on Intranet. Experience with SAP, Jobtract, Autosys, Mvs, Jes2, Tso, and troubleshooting abended jobs and equipment problems.

Senior Graphics Technician, Quality Control Technician, Team Leader - (1970 - 1990)

Meredith / Burda, Lynchburg, Va.

Starting in Retouching I was a team Leader assuring the quality and timely completion of all work done by the team. In quality control my responsibility was to assure that the jobs that were produced by multiple teams and different departments met the standards demanded by the customers. As a pre-press Quality Control Tech I worked closely with the customer and the printing plants coordinating work in progress. I also worked with outside vendors both on work they sent in and at their site.

Shift Supervisor / Team Leader - (1990 - 2002)

R.R. Donnelley, Lynchburg, Va.

As a Shift supervisor my duties included: scheduling vacations; evaluating team members; training; overseeing the team’s performance to guarantee deadlines and customer needs were met on each job; interacting with various departments and printing plants; staffing to maintain maximum output; overtime; troubleshooting jobs and equipment, dealing with on the job problems and emergency situations. Extensive work with Photoshop and Quark programs on Pc and Mac Platforms.

A.S., Information Systems Technology/ Programming

Central Virginia Community College, Lynchburg, Va.

GPA: 4.0, Major GPA: 3.99. Have taken Visual Basic 6 (1 & 2), Visual C#.net, MS Office Suite, Database Management, Web Page Design with XHTML, Internet, Macromedia Studio4, SQL/Oracle Database Management and Cisco Networking 1st and 2nd Semester. Web project for Bausch and Lomb Employee Training System during IST251.

B.S., Business Management - (1986-1990)

Liberty University, Lynchburg, Va.

GPA: 3.2, Major GPA: 3.2.

On the job training, R.R. Donnelley, Lynchburg, Va. - I have had training and worked with Photoshop on PC and Macintosh, Quark Express, Some Adobe Illustrator, Media Bank, some UNIX with our in house database, Lotus Notes and Zinger-Miller frontline leadership training. I am familiar with Dos, Windows and Macintosh Platforms. I am also studying on my own Assembler, Perl, Visual Basic.net, Frontpage, Asp, Php, and am working on CCNA and MCP certifications.