Marcy Southern

Experience

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  Cryovac, WR Grace

  Jan 1994 - Dec 1998

  • Responsible for safety, quality, productivity, hiring/terminating, performance appraisals, communication, and reports• Assisted employees with troubleshooting problematic orders including 4-color process • Led the integration of the ink room with the press department and established monthly close-out procedures• Established and maintained press specification manuals to comply with ISO9002 standards • Full-time college and work January - December 1994• Extensive use of the Barco Imaging System to generate stepped negatives for platemaking by programming the repeat of pre-trapped single images• Use of Barco Imaging System to perform electronic prepress operations including stripping and trapping in order to produce final negatives

  • Bag Printing Supervisor

    Sept 1996 - Dec 1998

  • Graphics Imaging Specialist

    Jan 1994 - Sept 1996
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  Cryovac, Sealed Air Corporation

  Dec 1998 - Jul 2019

  • Lead/Coach Graphics R&D and IT teams to continuously improve Graphics, Platemaking and Printing through technical support, color management, and innovative process improvements • Lead North American Print Leadership Team to maintain process control systems, share best practices, organize process improvement projects regionally to eliminate redundancy, evaluate and adopt new technologies to improve overall equipment effectiveness, etc. • Manage regional and/or global process improvement projects that impact Graphics, Platemaking and/or Printing• Interface regularly with internal departments, Sales and Customers regarding quality concerns, process capabilities, technology upgrades, and/or improvement opportunities Show less • Created a Process/Research & Development team to improve communication, workflow, quality, efficiencies, etc. between Graphics and NA Printing and to focus on rapidly changing Graphics and Printing technologies to maintain leadership position• Led the development of an optimized platemaking workflow that (1) increased plate yield 20%, (2) increased throughput an additional 10%, (3) eliminated plate identification errors, and (4) reduced safety hazards through automated cutting. • Managed a global project, from justification of required spending to implemention of optimized & networked platemaking systems at 15 sites • Established plate inventory and platemaking reporting and metrics for increased accountability and improved performance• Responsible for safety, quality, productivity, hiring/terminating, performance appraisals, communication, and KPI reporting for Platemaking/Plate Inventory and Digital Printing Show less • Served as liaison between Graphics and Cryovac, NA print locations (internal customers)• Provided technical support for Graphics and Printing• Supervised the NA Color Standards Technician and the Digital Printing Specialist• Profiled/characterized the Cryovac NA process printing presses to establish appropriate dot gain curves and monitor/proofer correlations • Led the Computer-to-Plate justification for Cryovac, NA• Led the development of platemaking on-line reporting; created/implemented electronic production reporting Show less • Reported the monthly production and quality metrics• Maintained and controlled the color management system for SVL Bag Printing• Maintained and developed the department ISO system; served as an ISO Internal Auditor• Developed a process print training program and trained all press operators• Led the setup reduction team for printing• Temporarily assigned (January–November 2000) to direct the operations of the Bag Printing Department, consisting of 6 supervisors, and approximately 150 production employees Show less

  • Manager, NA Graphics R&D / IT

    Apr 2008 - Jul 2019

  • Manager, SVL Platemaking and NA Graphics R&D

    Dec 2005 - Apr 2008

  • Graphics Art Analyst

    Feb 2001 - Dec 2005

  • Bag Printing Staff Supervisor

    Dec 1998 - Feb 2001
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  PPC Flexible Packaging

  Jul 2019 - now

  VP, Graphics & Print Optimization