Barbara E. Wester, LSSBB
1785 Morgan Road
Bremen, GA 30110
(404) 775-1898 Cell
baabs8848@yahoo.com
Professional Summary:
Manufacturing/Printing/Graphic Arts professional with 35 years experience in all aspects of the industry, 20 of
those years working in an aerosol/food/paint can industry. Fields of work in offset sheet fed and web printing
and gained management, process control, quality, production scheduling, employee management, team
building and training experience in both paper printing and metal decorating. I am a Certified Lean Six Sigma
Black Belt and Master Six Sigma in Manufacturing from Villanova University. I am also Georgia Work Ready
Certified.
Experience:
Ball Metal Food Container, Oakdale, CA
September 2011 – October 2014
Position: Production Supervisor – Preventative Maintenance.
• Starting position - One of three supervisors for the new DRD Salmon can lines relocated to Ball’s
Oakdale, California plant from Ball’s Richmond, Canada plant.
• Responsibilities include daily production reports, monthly production, quality, safety and
continuous improvement reports to management, including weekly 5 Why reports on downtime
issues and problem solving resolutions with the crews.
• Supervision of 20 employees, 3 shifts which entails scheduling manning, overtime, vacation, plus
timecard verification and authorization, monthly safety and company communication meetings,
ensuring proper PPE is worn and all quality, safety and procedural SOP’s are met daily.
• Holding weekly mechanics meetings at start up and attending daily production meetings with
management and corporate engineers.
• Attending yearly Corporate Leadership Training and Corporate and Plant Continuous
Improvement project meetings bi-monthly.
• Assisted in getting the department/plant ready for the yearly SQF Audit.
• March 2013 was sent to the Danville, IL plant to assist as a supervisor due to a shortage of
supervisors and work on continuous improvement projects such as 5S, scheduling and
production report streamlining for 2 weeks.
• Upon returning to the Oakdale, CA plant was moved to the Coil/Coating department due to an
early retirement of one of the supervisors.
• Responsibilities include daily production reports, monthly production, quality, safety and
continuous improvement reports to management.
• Supervision of 35 employees, 3 shifts which entails scheduling manning, overtime, vacation, plus
timecard verification and authorization, monthly safety and company communication meetings,
ensuring proper PPE is worn and all quality, safety and procedural SOP’s are met daily.
• Was instrumental in a reduction of defects, HFI product and raising awareness of quality issues.
• Assisted with training and implementation of a corporate initiative based work order, safety
issues and preventative maintenance project system.
• Was team lead on several quality and continuous improvement projects including a SMED event
to reduce changeover time by 35% on the coating lines.
• Attended corporate BEST Training for supervisors, which included, 1 day of TARP (Substance
Abuse Training & Certification), 1 day of The 4 Disciplines of Execution and 4 days of Ball
Essentials of Supervisor Training & Certification.
• Assisted in the implementation of a corporate initiative of daily Huddle Meetings with the floor
crews at the start of every shift to go over safety, production, problem resolution and work
orders from the previous day, Oakdale was the trial plant on this project.
• Gained experience on Info HCM Workforce Management, Infinity 2004, MFG Pro VT COC 2,
Quad Enterprise Applications 2011 SE, Quad EAM 12.6 PROD. Ink Applications, Total Control
Roster, Minitab 16 and Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint & Project Programs & Systems.
• April 2014 was sent to the Weirton, WV plant for 2 weeks to assist the Quality department with
customer complaints, instrument auditing and calibrating, 5S of the department and forms due
to a reduction in staff. Held Quality/Defect training and awareness for all hourly crews and
supervisors. Compiled Quality reference Manuals for the supervisors.
• Upon return to the Oakdale plant, assisted with rationalization of employees for plant reduction
due to customer loss.
Printed Specialties Inc., Carrollton, GA
December 2010 – August 2011
Position: Quality & Continuous Improvement Manager.
Duties include:
• Handle all Quality issues including Non- Conformance Reports, Customer Complaints and Quality
Reports.
• Keep ISO Records up to date and handle all audits associated with ISO.
• Initiate and head up all continuous improvement projects throughout the plant.
• Responsible for a $40,000.00 savings in the pressroom due to the initiation of a utility person.
• Responsible for a 5S program throughout the plant that has increased production and improved the
overall conditions of the facility.
• Responsible for eliminating 1,600 lbs of obsolete copper dies totaling $6,500.00 in recycling revenue to
put back into the company.
• Responsible for initiating a paper recycling program through the offices to re-coup some of the revenue
lost from paper waste.
• Started a TPM Schedule, there was currently no TPM Schedule at this plant.
• Created a crew member picture board to increase responsibility and morale in the plant.
• Created department newsletters to increase communications and pride in the departments.
Ball Metal Food & Household Products, Tallapoosa, GA
November 2006 - April 2009
Position: Prepress Manager.
Duties include:
• Received all new artwork, press proofs, litho packages and press plates.
• Responsible for making sure the presses have complete line folders and correct press plates for all jobs.
• Worked on ASI AS400 Work Flow System.
• Teamed with other litho centers in Ball to assure the correct litho packages and current color
standards are sent when work has to be transferred or offloaded due to capacity limits.
• Trained with Advanced Color Technologies on Color Measurement and Web Edition X-rite Color
Master System in Chicago and Tallapoosa.
• Implemented X-rite stations at the press lines for color measurement of the sheets by the pressman.
• Responsible for setting up the current data base for the X-Rite Web Edition Color Master System
• Responsible for checking first run color standards with X-Rite 530 color master system then
placing them into line packages and supplying QAS assembly with their copies.
• Managed the standards to customers for approval to ensure customer designs are current and correct.
• Answer customer complaints along with Quality Department Manager.
• Work closely with can assembly and quality assurance to make sure that they have the most current
and approved color standards to run cans by.
• Assigned to a Kaizen team to reduce waste in the plate department which resulted in becoming the
showcase of the company.
• Responsible for 95% of the line folders and QAS assembly files having current customer signed
standards.
• Collaborated with INX ink representative stationed at the plant to insure the correct ink is on the lines.
• Responsible for approving all spending on ink, plates, shipping and artwork.
• Responsible for a 35% reduction in shipping costs.
• Compiling of monthly usage and spending reports for the corporate managers.
• Scheduled Manning, vacations and overtime for 45 employees in a union environment.
• Used Kronos TCK 4.3 Timekeeper Central program to keep track of timesheets, overtime & payroll.
• Worked with other management on rationalization of the employees for plant closing.
• Was assigned to an implementation team to train other facilities on X-rite Color Solutions.
Thomasson Printing Company,
December 2005 to November 2006
(Premier Print –Parent Company), Carrollton, GA.
Position: Night shift supervisor in the Pre Press department.
Duties included:
• Overseeing the work flow, deadlines and shipments & made decisions at night on the presses due to
downtime.
• Pulled proofs, running plates and quality control of artwork due to a reduction in the night shift staff.
DeNyse Signs, (Allen & Jennifer DeNyse, Owners), Douglasville, GA
April 2003 to December 2005
Position: Project Manager.
Duties included:
• Coordinated the surveying, design, proposals, permitting, manufacturing and installation of the
signage for 250 New Centers for the UPS/MBE Corporation.
• Executive assistant to the Senior Project Manager for the UPS/MBE account & Top salesman for the
company.
Imagelinx Inc., formerly US Can, Tallapoosa, GA
September 2002 to April 2003
Positon: Day Shift Supervisor and Customer Care.
• In September of 2002 US Can Company sold their graphics division to Imagelinx which included the
hiring of all the current employees of that department.
• In addition to position duties with US Can Graphics, also wrote purchase orders, balanced the ledger
sheets & handled all accounts receivable.
US Can Company, Tallapoosa, GA
June 1994 to September 2002
Position: Night Shift Supervisor of the Graphics Department. In October of 2000 was promoted to Day Shift
Production Scheduler and Customer Care.
Duties included:
• Receiving new designs, scheduling and routing of those designs through computer graphics,
conventional stripping, proofing and plating.
• Managed customer service, sales correspondence and litho specifications, which included the handling
of outside venders when work was to be sent out.
• Estimating, billing, filing and inventory management.
• Worked on both PC and Macintosh formats with the latest program software.
• Certified yearly and monthly ISO 9001, safety, fire, hearing, MSDS and hazardous waste training.
Dickson’s Inc. (Tallmage Dickson, CEO), Atlanta, GA
February 1986 to June 1994
Starting Position: Paste-up artist and logo designer.
Duties included:
• Designed several corporate logos and helped in coordination of special projects.
• Within 4 months was promoted to the Engraving Department as Quality Control, was trained about
engraving plates, dies and scheduling of the presses.
• 8 months later was promoted to the Litho/Thermography Department as Quality Control and
Production Scheduler.
• Within 1 year was promoted to Offset Press Supervisor and Manager.
• 4 months later became Night Shift Supervisor to help organize the night shift & train the new manager.
• 1 year later was put back on day shift as Pressroom Supervisor and to help train the new Plant Manager.
• In 9 months was moved back to prepress due to pregnancy. Duties were art, proofreading and camera
• Was promoted to Head of the Camera Department to help reorganize after a reduction in staff.
• In August 1993 started training on the new Macintosh computer system. Was sent to Appletree
Technologies/New Horizons Computer Learning Center and certified in Macintosh Basic-AM.
• First camera person to be trained in computer stripping on the new direct to plate onyx system.
A.S.A.P. Printing, Inc. (Paul Copeland, Owner), Marietta, GA
Position: Layout, Typesetter and Graphic Designer.
Winn Dixie of Atlanta, Advertising Department, Atlanta, GA
Position: Pressperson.
The Marietta Daily Journal and Neighbor Newspapers, Inc., Marietta, GA
Position: Proofread, layout and paste-up.
CardPak Printing Corp. (Osmund V. Place, Owner & CEO), Cleveland, OH.
Part-time employment during high school for my father.
September 1984 to February 1986
March 1983 to September 1984
February 1981 to May 1983
1974 to 1976
Education:
Villanova University, Villanova, PA
Six Sigma Master Certificate, Villanova University - Completed
1. Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, Villanova University - Certified
2. Lean Six Sigma, Villanova University – Certified
3. Six Sigma Green Belt, Villanova University - Certified
March 2010 to September 2010
Georgia Work Ready Certified
March 22, 2010
1. Certificate #70X53MBMVK0X
2. Platinum – Reading for Information, Applied Mathematics; Silver – Locating Information
Ohio University in Athens, Ohio
1. Photography, Graphic Design and Journalism.
2. Worked in production of school newspaper, The Ohio University Post:
a. Basic duties included layout, paste-up and proofread the newspaper.
b. Experienced on the Newspaper Electronics Corp. VDT System.
Accomplishments:
17th Edition Worldwide Publisher’s Empowering Executives, Professionals
& Entrepreneurs Around the Globe
Cover Feature with a full-page article in the Fourth Addition Pro-Files Magazine.
2013 Who’s Who Publisher’s Distinguished Professional Calendar Series – December
2011 Voted Professional of the Year in Manufacturing by The Worldwide Who’s Who.
Interests:
Photography, reading, fishing and family.
1977-1980