Studying / implementing (internally operated) customer services; including CADD,
electronic document publishing, electronic prepress, digital printing and communications solutions for
3 reprographics divisions and a lithography division; ; insuring that Continental Graphics (1)
maintained a competitive advantage and (2) accurately predicted its ROI (return on service
development labor costs, service development hardware / software / material costs, daily, service
operation costs and service sales costs).
1. Sean Kevin Anderson
928 West Badillo Street
Covina, California 91722
Mobile Telephone (626) 991 – 4844
Email: seananderson_sa@yahoo.com
Key Expertise
25 years of product development, product management and product mfg experience.
20 years of digital printing technology and product finishing technology investment know
how. I.e. Business plan development and business plan execution experience; from the
contrasting perspectives of product developer, solution integrator and solution purchaser.
11 years of targeted marketing experience
Solid production (environment) leadership skills
Excellent interpersonal and group communication skills
Extraordinary insight into printed product manufacturing technology trends
Flat substrate and “3D” printing (hardware, software and materials) technology expert
Extraordinary insight into “ink jet” hardware, software, and ink technology and applications
Extraordinary understanding of print quality and color management elements.
Manufacturing automation solution and flexible robotic technology expert
Expert in adhesives, cast / mold technologies
Expert in image scanning technologies / techniques
Expert in product / instructional display technologies (including heads up display technology)
Excellent technology and manufacturing process modeling skills
Still photography and video production expert; including extreme slow motion and motion analysis
expertise
Employment History
Xerox 2013 – 2014
Solution Design Engineer: Specializing in (A) robotics / flexible manufacturing technology (B) ink jet
technologies (C) additive (3D print) and subtractive manufacturing techniques (D) adhesive
technology (E) image capture technologies / techniques and (F) display / projection technologies for
product, gaming, and industrial (instructional display) applications; all required to deliver a
comprehensive technology investment business plan to senior Xerox executives and customers.
Shutterfly 2005 – 2012
Manufacturing Technology Director: Designed the architecture of Shutterfly’s product
manufacturing technology suite; to insure the cost effectiveness, robustness and scalability of the
company’s manufacturing investments. My day to day mission was to develop comprehensive
technology (investment) business plans; to insure that Shutterfly accurately predicted its ROI (return
on investment) and obtained the most cost effective technologies / production techniques via which
deliver the most popular holiday season products. I work within a team of manufacturing site
directors, technician-managers and production managers to insure the efficient operation and
maintenance of contrasting manufacturing technologies.
Shutterfly’s seasonal business (model) demands that the company employs hundreds of temporary
production workers during the holiday season. This condition (and my intimate familiarity with
manufacturing materials, processes, hardware and software) demands that I (often) coordinate
training efforts and provide impromptu production management support during the holiday season.
2. Hewlett Packard 1999 – 2005
Senior Solution Architect: Indigo, and other product lines: Providing clients with pre/post-sale,
hardware / software, integration services and technical support. I.e. To insure they were equipped
with all the information required to build the best technology (investment) business plan. My
secondary mission was to contribute to sales efforts and to insure customer productivity and
satisfaction.
Data Direct Network 1998 – 1999
Product Manager: Monitoring the development of storage area network solution which incorporated
hard drives, RAID controllers, Fibre Channel switches adapters and drivers, meta-data servers and
shared file system software. My role was to: 1) Insure that the solution (under development) would
meet the targeted market’s midterm demands. 2) Insure that it could be evolved to meet the targeted
market’s long term demands. 3) To conduct competitive technology studies measuring our
competitive position relative to price and performance. 4) Planning future product development
efforts. I.e. To insure that Data Direct Networks accurately predicted its ROI (return on product
development labor, product development hardware / software / material and product sales costs).
International Business Machines (IBM) 1997 – 1998
Systems Engineer: Providing clients with pre and post sales printing system technical support. My
function was to contribute to sales efforts, to ensure customer satisfaction and to provide
management with industry intelligence so as to support product development efforts.
Bell Industries Graphic Imaging Group 1997
Product Manager: Developing Bell’s high performance electronic prepress product portfolio /
solution set; insuring that Bell Industries (1) maintained a competitive advantage and (2) accurately
predicted its ROI (return on solution development labor costs, solution development hardware /
software / material costs and solution sales costs).
Senior Technical Sales Person: Leading prospect / client needs analysis efforts, leading solution
design efforts and making technical sales presentations.
Specialty Graphics Company 1995 – 1996
R&D / Product Manager: Developing Specialty’s electronic prepress product portfolio / solution set;
which included publishing software applications, high performance workstations, servers, high
capacity storage solutions, network hardware / software, scanners, printing technology, film/paper
imaging and processing plate-setters and integration services. I.e. To insure a competitive
advantage and that Specialty accurately predicted its ROI (return on solution development labor
costs, solution development hardware / software / material costs and solution sales costs)
Crestec International (Print and Translation Services) 1994
Analyst: Studying / implementing (internally operated) electronic document publishing, digital
printing and communication solutions.
Continental Graphics (Print, Reprographics, Parts Catalog Publishing) 1989 – 1994
Operations Manager: Ensuring client satisfaction and the profitability of the Computer Graphics and
Imaging Department; a CADD services organization.
Analyst: Studying / implementing (internally operated) customer services; including CADD,
electronic document publishing, electronic prepress, digital printing and communications solutions for
3 reprographics divisions and a lithography division; ; insuring that Continental Graphics (1)
maintained a competitive advantage and (2) accurately predicted its ROI (return on service
development labor costs, service development hardware / software / material costs, daily, service
operation costs and service sales costs).
3. Education
1980 – 1984 University of Southern California, Bachelor of Arts, Communications Arts and
Sciences