Ron Licata

Ron Licata

Premedia & IT Manager, Winning Directions

San Francisco Bay Area

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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Industry
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Ron Licata’s Experience

  • Prepress Manager

    Winning Directions

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

    August 2004November 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)

    19992004 (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)

    19971999 (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)

    19951997 (2 years)

  • Owner

    Firehouse 49 Design

    (Political Organization industry)

    19891993 (4 years)


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