[Skype ID: krismohan]
Experience:
Summary: Over 12 years experience in a publishing company
in production, complemented with a Diploma from the London College of Printing(
now Communication), London, U.K. Computer savvy-use a HP compaq nx6120 laptop
at work with Windows XP and familiar with MS Office/Open office packages.
Skills:
excellent
communication and people skills ; editing and research skills; computer skills;
time-management and problem solving skills; Content management; ability to
multi-task and work well under pressure; business skills, such as budgeting and
marketing and cost savings; negotiation skills
Recipient of the 2005 merit bonus award given to ten employees among
273 staff.
Apr 2002- present Orient Longman
Pvt. Ltd.,
Production Comptroller- Reporting to the Director (Commercial)
Job involves: Editorial/ production
supervision
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Negotiations of printing and paper as the entire operations are
outsourced
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Liaise
and negotiate contracts with clients, authors, designers, illustrators,
photographers, translators, printers, distributors and other editors
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Work
out budgets and time lines
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Ensure
work is kept within budget and deadlines are met
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Read
and assess the final copy of a publication
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Decide
if and when to print or reprint a publication
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Produce
updated editions of publications
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Setting design specifications to artists, typesetters
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Editorial supervision for schedules and
layouts for new projects
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All work contracts for the editorial are pre-approved
(Expertise in web and sheet fed offset processes-print buying)
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Infrastructure appraisal of the printing presses inside and outside of
the country.
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Audit of the entire process of billing, bill payments for five printing
offices and report generations for the improvement of the functioning of the
entire printing processes(from typesetting to binding of the books)is being
done.
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Budgeting and disbursal of funds
(approx.) Rs. 14 crore (~USD 300,000) is another key
function.
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Stock control of paper and board for all the six branches.
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Attend
workshops, photo shoots, book launches, fairs and conferences
Innovative
cost cutting measures have been my strengths.
Nov 2001-Apr 2002 Education break
Achievements included
managing funds totaling to Rs. 9.4 Crores (~US$ 2
Million) for production activities annually.
·Paper and board sourcing-from paper mills around the country.
·Negotiating prices and improving on the existing qualities to suit book printing with regard to the substrate.
·Print buying-supervision of print runs ranging around 6,000,000 units of books annually being sourced in six locations around the country.
· Transport negotiations- between printers and offices.
·Logistics control, delivery scheduling and quality control.
·Coordinating
between six printing offices Mumbai,
·Involved in the launch, content management, editing and updating of the website in association with an external agency. (www.orientlongman.com)
·Copy editing, proof reading, colour reproduction of finished books and responsibility for appropriate imaging techniques.
·Recruitment of printing personnel for offices. Managed team of 12 production executives directly under my control in the six different offices nationwide.
·Visited the branches and helped improve the systems in the purchase departments.
·Feedback delivered to the central office regarding inter-branch co-ordination problems and issues and helped in developing better systems for effective communication between personnel.
·Updating the editorial staff on using newer technological advances helping them in faster and cheaper methods of working.
·Underwent in-house training in Marketing and Servicing of Orders Received, Stock Control, Educational Resources Division, Stock Taking, Agreements & Copyright, Accounts, Internal Audit, Sales and Marketing and Electronic Data Processing division.
·Also trained in the associate chain of bookshops (‘The Bookpoint’) for two months in all the selling, buying and stock control activities.
·Worked with the Chief Publisher in the total publishing administration and aspects related to the acceptance and declining of the manuscripts, coordinating with more than 500 authors.
Academic
Qualifications:
Oct 1997 - May 1998 P.G.
Diploma in Printing and Publishing (PDPP)
Phase I: Computer Applications, Materials, Colour Reproduction, Typography, Graphic Reproduction, Printing Practical, Print Theory, Print Finishing, DTP, Design, Publishing and Finance.
Phase II: Electronic Copy Editing, Electronic Publishing, Picture and Digital Media Research, Marketing, Marketing Communications and Print Buying.
Jun 1991 - Mar 1994 M.
A. (Public Administration)
Jun 1987 - Mar 1990 B. Sc.( Botany)
School St.
Josephs’ Boys Higher Sec. School, Coonoor, Nilgiris, Tamilnadu.
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