Gary Underhill

Current

Assistant Project Manager - Production at Media General

Past

Advertising Systems Senior Functional Analyst – Pre-Press at Media General
Regional Prepress Manager at Wausau Daily Herald

Education

Morehead State University

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Industry

Publishing

Gary Underhill’s Experience

Assistant Project Manager - Production

Media General

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; MEG; Newspapers industry)

January 2007 — Present (2 years 7 months)

Responsible for all prepress, production and web publishing components of the system including AdBase, PGL, AdWatch, AdBaseE and associated interfaces to third party production / tracking systems and functionality at each property. I work closely with vendors and other AdBase Functional Managers to assure completeness of communication and coordination of project deliverables. Responsible for the training, testing, go-live and post go-live support of production related functionality. I have operated as a process owner to verify that the system(s) are configured and function properly. Responsible for managing three functional analysts and 360 communication with all other AdBase functional managers.
Advertising Systems Senior Functional Analyst – Pre-Press

Media General

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; MEG; Newspapers industry)

May 2005 — January 2007 (1 year 9 months)

My primary responsibilities were for all pre-press issues and related functionality, validation of the Advertising A/R System and integrated Ad Tracking functionality. Responsibilities have included assisting in the support of all system functionality of the advertising – A/R system. Support the implementation of the new system(s) throughout Media General Publishing. Test and assist with implementation project, training of users, process improvement and issue resolution. I was responsible for all pre-press support issues.
Regional Prepress Manager

Wausau Daily Herald

(Publishing industry)

August 2000 — May 2005 (4 years 10 months)

Responsibilities include the timely output of three daily newspapers, the supervision of ad services, two creative services staffs and the lithography departments in Wausau and Stevens Point. Job responsibilities included overseeing the personnel in the litho and composing departments, responsible for quality control of advertising materials in daily newspapers, commercial print jobs and special sections. Developed optimum quality procedures for customer satisfaction and to improve our daily products, developed a Central toning department for Gannett Central Wisconsin Newspaper Group. Worked very closely with the news, circulation and advertising departments, also developed PDF workflow for Central Wisconsin newspapers. Working on the departmental budget, and in charge of all supply ordering and vendor contact. I was the Optimum Quality chairperson at Wausau, the AdQ co-chairperson at Wausau. Travel to commercial accounts to help set up digital transmissions of files.