Official Resume

REBECCA LANNING


EXPERIENCE

Lee Enterprises (Lee Design Center at Munster, Indiana) Nov 2015 – Apr 2022

Production Systems Coordinator

  • Performed coordination between the Lee Design Center and over 60 publication sites with system upgrades and on-boarding for in-house publications and commercial runs.
  • Conducted training for updated systems. 
  • Organized and produced information and documentation and distributed across multiple sites and vendors to provide resolution for issues in a timely manner utilizing various communication platforms.
  • Troubleshoot any and all issues that caused any type of slow down or hold up in the production work flow of any given project.

Quality Control Associate

  • Confirmed all submitted assets adhered to appropriate production standards, ensuring content and advertisements were correctly laid out, and processed publication pages by deadlines.
  • Final page approval to release to press, color corrected photos, adjust files for production as necessary.
  • Troubleshoot issues that arise in all stages of a project life-cycle. Page design for “Feature” pages (Comics, puzzles, reviews, etc.).

Prepress / Production Planning

  • Create layouts and plans specified for print publications according to standards set by advertisement, editorial and design specifications per publication across 20+ sites that had joined the Centralized Layout Project. 
  • Execute building of plans once approved by site or submitted by sites not included with the project, and released pages for design center to process. 
  • Entered plans into Newsway system to ensure designed pages reached print facilities and output correctly per layout and press specifications.

Southwest Regional Publishing — Oct 2014 – Aug 2015

Head Page Designer / Prepress Specialist

  • Page designer for weekly newspaper, “The Regional News” and special sections publications. 
  • Designed flyers and other collateral for local businesses advertising within publications.
  • Other responsibilities included content management for publication’s website, content management for Southwest Regional Publishing website and social media and occasional platemaking for press.

Regional Publishing Corp. (company sold to SRP) — Aug 2008 – Oct 2014

Head Page Designer / Prepress Specialist

  • Page designer for weekly newspaper, “The Regional News” and special sections publications. 
  • Designed flyers and other collateral for local businesses advertising within publications.
  • Other responsibilities included content management for publication’s website, content management for Southwest Regional Publishing website and social media and occasional platemaking for press.

EDUCATION

Bachelor’s Degree in Applied Science — Major in Graphic Design — 2007
Magna Cum Laude, Robert Morris University, Orland Park Campus


SKILLS & STRENGTHS

  • Mac and PC flexible
  • Adobe Creative Suite / Creative Cloud
  • WordPress
  • G Suite
  • Jotform
  • Slack
  • Trello

Awards from the Illinois Press Association:

  • 2014 Best Community Focus Special Section – 1st Place
  • 2014 Best Spot Color Ad – 2nd Place
  • 2014 Best Ad Series – 4th Place
  • 2012 Best Holiday Ad – 4th Place