MERLE A. BALDWIN

• General administration: In relation to flexographic printing developed and implemented organizational and production schedules; prepare reports, correspondence, memos, records, and forms; evaluate activities and interact with supervisory staff; develop and prepare forms, records, charts, and other operational materials, and implement operations systems to achieve effective workloads and workflow.
• Grant writing securing international grant for business development and resilience.
• Acquire international suppliers and credit facilities for all inputs
• Purchasing for all departments
• Perform immediate supervision of key support staff and maintain all official company records.
• Conduct the coordinated discussions with client; pre-press, plate and die providers and production staff prior to new job production according to FIRST (Flexographic Imaging Reproduction Specifications & Tolerances )principles
• Conduct finger-printing for flexographic jobs
• Implemented the Jalema filing system to create a complete physical record for each client; with my team implemented the Notion app for communication and task coordination across the company and developed an advanced integrated excel spreadsheet for costing flexographic jobs in 5 minutes.
• Proof-reading of all printed materials from cards to books

• Perform a wide range of activities related to general administration: business insurance, vehicles and equipment, office supplies and furnishings; building materials; office design, supplies and furnishings; legal and other advisory/support services
• Business proposal writing for expansion
• Targeted new customers to grow geographic reach and increase revenue.( Designed and produced laboratory books for CXC subjects and 16 other new printed paper products sold island-wide through distributors; started a bookshop with digital printing services and snack bar to cater to the many schools in Spanish Town with 12 on our street alone)
• Enabled Work experience programme for high school students over many years fostering goodwill among the school population
• Evaluated operational practices and identified improvement opportunities to develop revisions for production systems and procedures.( Completely redesigned the production floor; reduced press down time and cost of press operator using Stop-watch time study)
• Maintained personnel records
• Financial administration: Prepare the annual budget and make subsequent modifications and transfers; monitor and evaluate accounting system, audits of accounts, and internal control methods; reviews client information for credit worthiness, reviews and approves accounts payable, payroll, and other financial requisitions, purchase orders, receipts, records or reports.
• Training of customer service staff
• Organized and conducted basic training course : Introduction to Flexographic Printing for selected staff across departments in association with major overseas supplier to foster a level of competence, acceptance and inclusion among the staff.

• Under direction of the Managing Director, performed a wide range of general and financial administrative tasks for wholesale importer and gas station
• General administration: In addition to concomitant duties, reorganized staff for greater efficiency and improved accountability systems
• Financial administration: Actively participated in negotiations for large letters of credit with overseas suppliers in face to face and telephone meetings
• Approved accounts payable, requisitions and customer credit
• Implemented control systems for accounting, cash expenditure and handling.

• Purchased land, designed farm layout, supervised the construction of a 60,000-bird poultry farm with state of the art equipmant
• Trained staff and achieved top performing farm for Best Dressed Chicken
• funding by the World Bank and JICA- a Japanese government agency.

Served as a management advisor to nine cooperative society boards in St. Catherine and Clarendon.

Under direction of project coordinator and in association with a sociologist, as the consultant agronomist, wrote projects on behalf of the government for World Bank and Japanese International Cooperation Agency Funding for several projects.