Ron Licata

Current

• Premedia & IT Manager at Winning Directions

Past

• Prepress Manager at Winning Directions
• Production Manager at Kassner
• Account Liason/Prepress Technician at Applied Graphics Technologies

• Prepress Specialist at Color Tech
• Owner at Firehouse 49 Design

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Websites

• .: Winning Directions :.

Ron Licata’s Experience

• Prepress Manager

  Winning Directions

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Publishing industry)

  August 2004 — November 2007 (3 years 4 months)

  Prepress Dept Responsibilities: Hiring; Equipment recommendations/purchases; Production workflow management; Color management; Digital retouching, compositing and restoring of all art; Delivery of data to nationwide network of printers through our secure delivery system; Recommend/select vendors for media output; Training for Adobe CS and other applications for creative and production staff.

• Production Manager

  Kassner

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Graphic Design industry)

  1999 — 2004 (5 years)

  Prepress Dept Responsibilities: Production workflow management; Color management; Digital retouching, compositing and restoring of all art; Delivery of data to nationwide network of printers through our secure delivery system; Proof and press checks (including quarterly press checks for Intel Quarterly Fact Sheet and Intel ); Macintosh maintenance-hardware and software - as well as recommending/purchasing upgrades; Equipment recommendations/purchases; Recommend/select vendors for media output; Training for Adobe CS and other applications for creative and production staff.
  
  IT Responsibilities: AppleShareIP server; Backup to CD-ROM; Maintain office equipment - hardware and software - as well as upgrades; work with outside IT consultants when necessary
  
  Web Developer Responsibilities: Maintain company website; Led team to design/develop CD-ROM content/packaging, Flash content for CD-ROMs and kiosks, websites, interactive PDFs and other miscellaneous items for clients.

• Account Liason/Prepress Technician

  Applied Graphics Technologies

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; Publishing industry)

  1997 — 1999 (2 years)

  On-Site @ FranklinTempleton Responsibilities: Production workflow management; Color management; Digital retouching, compositing and restoring of all art; Preflighting (wrote Filemaker application to preflight, track and report project errors, and delivered reports to FranklinTempleton VP of Creative Dept. to establish training objectives and reduce errors of Creative staff); Created a variety of press layouts for sheet-fed and web presses using Preps; Delivery of film/data to network of printers (printers received film or press layouts ready for plating); Macintosh maintenance-hardware and software; Training for Adobe CS and other applications for Franklin's creative and production staff.

• Prepress Specialist

  Color Tech

  (Marketing and Advertising industry)

  1995 — 1997 (2 years)

• Owner

  Firehouse 49 Design

  (Political Organization industry)

  1989 — 1993 (4 years)

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Ron Licata’s Websites:

• .: Winning Directions :.

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