Experiences at Vertis Communications

Being able to adapt from working on "High End" retouching to very fast, heavy pressure and set deadlines. In order to work in this mode, I had to completely change my form of thinking in terms of retouching. I also learned more interactive approaches to the CS2 Suite for much faster turnarounds.

I supervise a team of four employees, who's job responsibilities are to place and confirm customer print advertisements with various newspapers across the country. My responsibilites include approving time cards, resolving scheduling conflicts, balancing workloads, employee training & evaluation, running backup reports, tracking department productivity, and heading departmental projects....

Professional Experience

Senior Media Buyer, October 2000 - March 2007
The Newspaper Network, Inc., Atlanta, GA
* Provided budget projections and billing reconciliation for a $70million dollar account on a monthly and annual basis
* Reconciled Account Contracts, Newspaper Invoices to Internal Billing systems on a monthly and annual basis
* Planned and executed Print Media strategies, which include ROP, Preprint, and Direct Mail Options
* Placed orders, provided printer run sheets and advertiser confirmations for all buys
* Researched delivery, billing, and printing issues associated with print advertisement
* Provided contract expiration and competitive analysis reports
* Maintained an Access database to house key information for over 600 publications and to create strategic marketing plans to achieve Client's ROI objectives
* Acted as liaison between client, newspapers and vendors to maintain and enhance client-vendor relationship...