David W. Hughens

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Designed and presented communications skills and brainstorm training workshops for Fortune 500 companies.
Managed accounts and scheduled training classes for Thumbprint clients.
Handled new business development, wrote and presented sales proposals.
Facilitated brainstorm sessions in product design, marketing and strategic development for Thumbprint clients.
Designed presentations in Power Point, managed account records with ACT and used MS Office for communications and writing projects.

Developed and managed relationships with large client base in highly competitive sales market.
Presented solutions through consultative selling methods from Office Managers to C-level Executives.
Managed large geographical territory as an overlay for sales representatives, providing sales skills and technical skills support and training.
Consistently overachieved sales quota while procuring new business through cold calling and dogged persistence.
Conducted client and sales representative training sessions for systems and software as a product manager.
Managed accounts and sales calls using ACT. Prepared proposals using MS Office.

Handled communications as liaison between customer and printing process for the highly technical electronic prepress department.
Scheduled and managed daily deadline workflow through prepress service bureau.
Twenty years of experience. Software and programming: QuarkXpress, Illustrator, PhotoShop, Microsoft Office, GoLive, Flash, HTML, XHTML, CSS, etc. Hardware: Mac and PC's, numerous storage devices, Scitex RIP, Scitex Dolev 200 and 400, Agfa Avantra and Accuset, Linotype-Hell drum scanner and IRIS color proofing systems.
Managed workflow and output through centralized print spooler/server. Handled maintenance and troubleshooting.
Executed color correction, photo retouching and trapping for printing projects on Scitex Prisma and Macintosh.
Performed scanning operations and color balance in electronic prepress department.

Managed production, design, layout and printing of monthly magazine ADRtoday (Alternative Dispute Resolution Today) for the Alabama Mediation and Arbitration Center.
Designed and developed content and established editorial style of magazine.
Supervised writers and managed the writing schedules while handling all editing functions for the magazine.
Trained as a professional mediator. [AAA certified]

Formed Westbrook Productions to produce the feature length film ELVIS' GRAVE; only the second feature film produced in Alabama, by a native Alabamian and the youngest producer to ever do so.
Directed cast and crew of forty-five people during film production.
Managed and coordinated six subcontractors during the postproduction.
Raised $300,000 through private investors for film production.
Researched and wrote business plan to procure investors.
Organized cast and crew, secured locations, budgeted and scheduled production.
Executed the editing of sound and picture in both videotape and film format.

Auburn University - Marketing and Adult Education 1987
Member Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity - Alumni Relations Chairman 1986
Member ASTD American Society for Training and Development
IKON University Sales Training - Two Week course 1999
Sharp Electronics Sales Training - One Week course 1996
American Arbitration Association, Mediator Certification - 40 hours 1992
Training seminar - Loyola-Marymount University, LA, CA - Film Production 1988
Training seminar - USC, LA, CA - Production/Marketing Films for Video 1988
Big Brothers of Alabama, Recruitment Committee Chairman, Board of Directors
Author/Publisher - The Imagination Block
Websites designed - bobbywilsongolf.com | girlsnightart.com | imaginationranch.com | elvisgrave.com | popawheeliepr.com | imaginationblock.com