herman spencer

senior manager it, publishing systems

About

Experienced IT/Publishing Systems professional with a demonstrated history of working in the newspaper publishing industry.

Country

united states

City

raleigh

Industry

publishing

Skill

photography, newspapers, pre press, publications, advertising, journalism, quarkxpress, management, social media, digital media, multimedia, color management, image editing, project management, magazines, leadership, indesign, editing, content management, adobe creative suite, photojournalism, training, microsoft excel, photoshop, newspaper, information technology, publishing technology, public speaking, preflight, system design, enterprise software, enterprise architecture, icc color management, people skills, color calibration, spectrophotometry, densitometer, virtualization, windows server, mac os

Experience

corporate - imaging systems administrator

mcclatchy

2012-1 - 2015-12 · 4 yrs

Developed workflows and publishing scripts that integrated with enterprise content systems servicing all 31 McClatchy markets. Managed and supported all systems

regional content and output systems director

mcclatchy

2009-10 - 2012-1 · 2 yrs 4 mos

Regional Role - Developed Intellitune digital imaging toning scripts. Engineered ICC Profiles for the McClatchy Southeast region markets to create consistent print reproduction. This was a print production color management role designed to save on expenses and these processes were eventually implemented company wide.

digital imaging supervisor

the news & observer

2003-8 - 2009-10 · 6 yrs 3 mos

Newsroom management role, supervised a team of highly skilled digital imaging technicians and served as photographer support.

senior manager it, publishing systems

mcclatchy

2018-8 - Present · 8 yrs 2 mos

Work to establish a strategic roadmap for our publishing systems that service our 30 markets nationwide to ensure that priorities of a rapidly expanding company are met. Build and lead a technical and business competent team of IT professionals and assume responsibility for career development, performance management and mentoring while providing direction and leadership. Provide technical direction for the development, design and systems integration across multiple platforms from definition phase to implementation. Manage risks related to financial and security compliance and also risks related to project and solution delivery.

corporate, premedia technology manager at the mcclatchy company

mcclatchy

2015-12 - 2018-8 · 2 yrs 9 mos

Oversee all enterprise prepress/premedia print production systems servicing 31 McClatchy markets nationwide. Manage a highly technical group of analyst who support our internal and external clients including USA Today, Wall Street Journal. Work closely with Regional Production Vice Presidents and Corporate Directors to plan and implement technology improvements for the company.