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Anne Schultz
Austin, TX 78704 | 512-636-8116 | anne@spyr.net | www.spyr.net
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Skills
Graphic Design, Illustration, & Photography
- Print and web design: creating graphics, illustrations, logos, and cross-media campaigns, for web, print, product packaging, video, and online gaming.
- Photography: taking photos for use in web, print, and video applications; work with event and PR-oriented photography. Have worked with studio lighting, light table, and product photography. Own a Canon XSI DSLR with an 28-135mm and an 18-55mm lenses.
- Stock: experience obtaining and working with stock photography and illustration.
- Use Adobe Suite (CS4 and earlier versions): with strengths in Photoshop and Illustrator.
- MS Powerpoint: can design themes and presentations; some experience with Keynote.
- Fine arts: creative work periodically in galleries/ shows.
Web Design & Digital Marketing
- Web Building: Write HTML & CSS, have worked extensively with Joomla, installing & skinning WordPress, building webpages & webmastering. Have built Flash elements, integrated shopping carts and blogs, skinned add-on elements to match sites, and formatted video-for-web.
- Digital Marketing: Familiar with social media and its use in marketing (blogs, Facebook, Twitter), have set-up and managed pay-per-click digital advertising campaigns, familiar with SEO and page rank building strategies, have set-up, designed, and managed several enewsletter campaigns.
Video
- Editing: Final Cut Pro Suite, to capture, edit, sound correct, create graphics/ titles and optimize finished video for web or DVD. Strong Motion graphics and Final Cut experience; good knowledge of Soundtrack and signal chain processing theory.
- Production: experience leading a 2-woman crew for a webTV/ DVD healthiness show.
- Gaff/ Grip: lighting design for webTV show, assistant gaff & grip experience on short film, dolly grip experience. Have worked with Kino Flos, fresnel ARRIs & HMIs, softbox, bounce cards/ diffusion/ flags, knowledge of gels, safety training.
- Camera: shoot webTV show using Cannon XL-2 miniDV cameras.
- Art: set design and props for webTV show.
- Direction, continuity, etc: designed shots, given direction, checked continuity, held cue cards, applied make-up, etc.
- Talent: have extra-ed in a short film, for webTV show, and have photography modeling experience.
General Computer
- MS Office Suite: use PowerPoint to create company presentations with consistent branding; data entry and database maintenance on Access; familiar with Outlook; have created extensive spreadsheets and tracked billing data on Excel with a smidgen of VBA; use Word everyday for editing text content.
- General Tech: can quickly learn new programs/software and workflows. Can usually troubleshoot software and hardware problems. Good understanding of Regular Expressions in code wrangling.
- Platforms: comfortable using Mac or PC.
- Audio: some experience recording, mixing and mastering audio in Digidesign Pro Tools.
Language
- Writing / Proofing: proofed or copywritten content for several websites & newsletters, text for video graphics, PR materials, and training manuals. Taught English grammar & composition as part of EFL classes.
- Speaking: have given various work-related presentations to groups; worked as an EFL teacher; giving business spiel at networking events.
- Foreign Language: very basic Spanish, intermediate Japanese, one word in Bulgarian.
Work Highlights
Various Freelance Clients
Small businesses located around the USA | March 2009 – Current
Graphic design, illustration, web maintenance, web design, web redesign, videography and editing, email marketing campaigns, social media outreach, customized Powerpoint presentation design, are among the services I have been providing for clients.
Ebook Technician
Libre Digital, Austin, TX | February 2010 – August 2010
Packaging and troubleshooting ebook files for the Epub and Mobipocket formats. Understanding of IDPF standards, Epub validation, and cross-platform conversion.
Design & PR Consultant
Alexandra’s Cookie Dreams, Austin, TX | June 2008 – August 2009
Graphic design for print and web; product photography; website maintenance, updates, and design changes; assistance with PR and social media campaigns; assistance with product production (making cookies), packaging and shipping, product photography.
Creativity Alchemist
Smart Foods Healthy Kids, Austin, TX | January 2007 – February 2009
One member of a two-woman start-up. Production of videos for web and DVD; audio for web and CD; product photography (general stock and food); website maintenance, updates, design changes; creating mass newsletter mailings and handling subscribers; creating graphics for web, video, & print; marketing & PR focusing on social web networking; handling DVD & CD replication, sales & consignment; helping put together a cookbook.
Billing Clerk & Technology Operations
Merz Consulting, Adairsville, GA | October 2005 – November 2006
Admin support and billing for this Department of Family & Children’s Services (GA) contractor. Gathered billing information from workers providing services to create invoices; resolved billing issues and overdue accounts with customers; dealt with confidential and sensitive client information/ case notes as administrative support to field workers & executive staff. Additional duties included: performing drug screens on clients, creating procedure manuals, troubleshooting technology problems, managing database and phone system, keeping inter- and intra-net running, filing, mailing, and other general office duties.
Head of Children’s Classes, Foreign Teacher Division
Aeon East Japan Corp., Tokyo, Japan | January 2003 – January 2004
Started out as general staff, but quickly became a leader in children’s teaching methodology. Responsible for curriculum and content development, creating teaching materials (games, flash cards, props), teaching EFL classes in both children’s and adult’s divisions, and training other teachers in children’s teaching technique. During my time, the school added four additional children’s classes, and gained a reputation with our customers and within the company as a school that could successfully teach younger children.
Yearbook Photography Editor
Vassar College Yearbook, Poughkeepsie, NY | September 2001 – April 2002
On staff since 2000, worked my way up to Sr. Photography Editor, in charge of photography staff and responsible for shooting and processing all photos requested by section editors on deadline.
Vassar College College Relations Photographer
Vassar College Public Relations Office, Poughkeepsie, NY | Sept. 1999 – April 2001
Was assigned photo shoots of lectures, events, concerts, festivals, student productions as well as landscape/ architecture projects on and off campus.
Education
Permaculture Workshops: various
Several weekend intensive workshops and various other lectures and events covering sustainable living. Most notable are the Sequatchie Valley Institute’s (TN, 2006) Food for Life, and Rhizome Collective’s (TX, 2008) Radical Urban Sustainability Training workshops.
Educational Information Institute: Saitama City, Japan
Japanese Language Placement Test Level II Course, 2003
Vassar College: Poughkeepsie, NY
Bachelor of Arts 2002: Psychology, Correlate: Japanese language
High course-load in studio arts (school did not offer studio arts correlate).
Kansai Foreign Language University: Osaka, Japan
Japanese Language & Culture Program 2001
Rome High School: Rome, GA
Graduated with AP Honors 1998: National Spanish Honor Society, National German Honor Society, National Honor Society, SAT 1500 Club, Top 5 in Class.