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Articulate speaker and writer • Fluent in French,
German, Spanish !
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Computer literacy: Word,
Excel, Pagemaker & PowerPoint, Outlook, QuarkXPress & Project
Workbench, Macromedia
Dreamweaver and Director, Painter, Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and After
Effects, Flash, Fireworks, Reason, Logic and Live !
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Accomplished illustrator by hand and computer;
capturing facial expressions in portraiture; skilled in painting and design
in various media !
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Energetic and enthusiastic with keen interpersonal /
public relations savvy !
¡ Musical
notation literacy and instrument competency: voice, piano, bass guitar, percussion
- composing digitally with Reason, Logic and Live !
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use digital camera and G4 Mac laptop for writing, drawing, animation and music
production !
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Traveled extensively in Western Europe - lived in Berlin,
Germany '95 to '97 - studying the language, writing extensively, working with
various graphic design and multimedia programs, playing electric bass guitar
and portrait drawing; subsequently lived in Paris and Barcelona !
Creative
Projects
Portfolio:
Mixed Media Fine Art, Digital Art, Animation, Digital Photography and Writing
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the National Joy Band's Shockwave Music Single entitled
"Drag Racer" is second from last in this series of Shockwave music videos
Music website review of the "Love Parade",
an annual electronic music festival, in July, 2000 in Berlin, Germany
for http://www.nme.com
- New Musical Express, a British Music Website
Published feature about the "Fuck Parade", which
also takes place in Berlin, for an electronic music magazine
XLR8R - printed in the November
2000 Issue # 44, including the photographs
'image scratchin' - animating digital photographs with Flash,
projecting live in synch with dj's beatz
Storyboarding designs
for a children's' parable, for which I'm creating the soundscape
score,
interfacing bass guitar, Gmini recorder
and digital laptop compositions using Propellerheads' Reason http://www.propellerheads.se/ and Abelton Live.
http://www.ableton.com
Dance, Performance
Art and Interactive Digital Video Projects, that just need funding....
Work Experience
Political/social commentary article "Cultural Abscess" concerning the drastic inequities within
the U.S., perpetuated through misguided corpocracy; published in issue no. 29 April 2005 of
http://www.leftcurve.org
April
2005
Creating
brochures in Pagemaker, through scanning and retouching photos in Photoshop
for a Real Estate Brokerage Firm in Santa Fe, New Mexico through a contracted
temporary position.
Town & Ranch
Certified
New York City Real Estate Salesperson license acquired after working as an
Office Manager sponsored by Real
Renters, LTD
June
2002
Executive
assistant to the President of an international and domestic nurse placement
firm; and subsequent Placement Specialist for
Travel Nurse International
April
2001 to January 2002
Years of contract
work in San Francisco for
various temporary job agencies, mostly in administrative & executive assistant
positions, highlighting a few
Marketing Manager/Customer Communications position involving
coordinating meetings and conferences, updating databases, supporting sales
people, processing purchase orders and creating slideshows for Tesseract
Corporation
October
1999 to January 2000
Slideshow presentation
creator using Powerpoint and formatting proposals in Pagemaker under strict
time deadlines for this architectural firm
NBBJ
March
to June 1999
Executive Assistant in a fast-paced environment; coordinating
meetings, maintaining contact with different offices through Outlook, scheduling
flights, boardrooms & the execs' volatile schedule and creating slideshows
with Powerpoint at Charles
Schwab & Co., Inc.
Graphics Assistant editing and formatting reports,
scanning and retouching engineering illustrations at Degenkolb
Engineers
March
to December 1998
Office Manager coordinating equipment rentals and camera operators for shoots,
in addition to general reception and clerical duties involved in running a
small business for
First Camera
November
1994 to June 1995
Project Administrator for a systems management study involving training on
a sophisticated time tracking software and a great deal of teamwork cooperation
and communication between consultants and staff of PG&E
July
to November 1994
Administrative Assistant creating spreadsheets in Excel,
designing documents in Pagemaker and transmitting information across platforms
at Bank
of America
