Having been in the industry for 23 years, Adam started as a production employee within a franchised sign company. From there, he moved into production management, then inside/outside sales, and now, for the last 6 years, he has been working as a Director of Project Development, managing the sign design team of Creative Sign Designs.

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In this episode...
00:00 Intro
00:38 Sponsor
01:33 Catching up
04:02 Welcoming Adam
04:40 Adam’s backstory
10:50 Creative Sign Designs
13:10 Role in creative sign designs
15:30 Adam’s team
19:33 Hiring Designers for 5700 requests
25:40 Hunting for good people
28:40 Workflow and processes of the business
38:26 Helping designers design
40:32 Day-to-day within the department
43:30 Advice for the small design team
47:10 Facilitating communication across department
51:30 Thoughts on A.I
55:30 Useful CorelDRAW plugin
57:45 Future for Creative Sign Designs

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