strengths & skills

  1. • Highly organized and self motivated with a professional manner

  2. • Able to work under pressure and multi task to meet tight deadlines

  3. • Able to come up with creative and cutting edge solutions for design problems

  4. • Expert in current applications including Adobe PhotoShop, Bridge, ImageReady, Illustrator, InDesign, Dreamweaver, Captivate, Acrobat Pro, Premier, Oxygen XML Editor, Drupal, QuarkXpress, Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Abbyy FineReader, FileMaker Pro, Apple iWeb, iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, WavePad, Cyberduck and Fetch ftp

  5. • Advanced typography and color theory training and skills

  6. • Pre-press file preparation and print production experience

  7. • Expert knowledge in traditional and digital cameras and scanners

  8. • Advanced knowledge in traditional and digital large format printing

  9. • Experience updating computer hardware and software

  10. • Proficient in both Macintosh and PC platforms

  11. • Flexible and always on time

  12. • Certified for CPR and AED


freelance

Kane Gallery - 2009

Graphic Designer /Webmaster

  1. • Design company logo

  2. • Design company website http://www.kane-gallery.com

  3. • Research and update keyword meta tags to help website rank higher in search engines

  4. • Update and maintain website images and information


Associates of Boston Public Library - 2009

Photographer

  1. •  Digitally image 1,192 pages from BPL Weston Sisters - Anti-Slavery Collection (http://www.flickr.com/photos/boston_public_library/).

  2. • Create and process aforementioned images according to BPL technical image standards

  3. • Process and arrange image files as one page per file, one complete book per directory.

  4. • Name files in accordance with BPL file-naming schema.

  5. • Conduct quality control reviews to assure that all image files are organized into proper consecutive order as arranged in the original. Conduct quality control reviews to assure that all image files meet technical benchmarks set by Associates of BPL and BPL Digital Library.


Boston Photo Imaging - 2008 – present

Graphic Designer /Webmaster

  1. • Design company website http://www.bostonphoto.com

  2. • Research and update keyword meta tags to help website rank higher in search engines

  3. • Update and maintain website images and information


Evansartstudio.com - 2003 – present

Graphic Designer /Webmaster

  1. • Design artist website http://www.evansartstudio.com

  2. • Scan and color correct artists’ slides and transparencies for artists’ website and archiving

  3. • Update and maintain website images and information

  4. • Research and update keyword meta tags to help website rank higher in search engines

  5. • Create promotional CD-ROM for artist Carolyn Evans


MIT EcoExpo - 2008 – present

Graphic Designer /Webmaster and Director of IT

  1. • Design MIT sustainability showcase website http://web.mit.edu/sfgs/ecoexpo

  2. • Design showcase logo, flyers, digital slides, poster and postcards

  3. • Update and maintain website images and information

  4. • Research and update keyword meta tags to help website rank higher in search engines

  5. • Attend weekly meetings.


SolSolution - 2008 – present

Graphic Designer /Webmaster

  1. • Design company website http://www.sol-solution.org

  2. • Design logo, flyers, business cards, banner, poster and brochure

  3. • Research and update keyword meta tags to help website rank higher in search engines

  4. • Update and maintain website images and information

  5. • Attend d2e expo with SolSolution as a volunteer.


Norman B. Leventhal Map Center @ BPL - 2008 – present

Photographer /Digital Technician

  1. • Fusing close-up sections of maps to create seamless one large map file  http://maps.bpl.org/


SigmaSoft Inc. - 2007 – present

Graphic Designer /Webmaster

  1. • Design company website. http://www.sigmasoftconsulting.net

  2. • Design company logo.

  3. • Research and update keyword meta tags to help website rank higher in search engines

  4. • Update and maintain website images and information


Boston Photo Imaging - 2007 – present

Photographer/ Subcontractor

  1. • On site or on location shooting

  2. • Shoot digital large format studio photography for libraries, private collections and universities

  3. • Client list includes; Brown University, MIT Libraries, UCONN, The Athenaeum Library, Wethersfield Historical Society, South Street Seaport Museum, Mystic Seaport Museum, Miner Agricultural Research Institute


Boston Public Library - Music Covers Project 2007

Photographer

  1. • Digitally image 219 pages from BPL Sheet Music Lithograph Covers Collection (http://www.flickr.com/photos/boston_public_library)

  2. • Create and process aforementioned images according to BPL technical image standards

  3. • Process and arrange image files as one page per file, one complete book per directory

  4. • Name files in accordance with BPL file-naming schema

  5. • Conduct quality control reviews to assure that all image files are organized into proper consecutive order as arranged in the original. Conduct quality control reviews to assure that all image files meet technical benchmarks set by BPL Digital Library


Boston Public Library - John Adams Exhibition Project 2007

Photographer

  1. • Digitally capture 21 exhibition cases utilizing available light in the exhibition room. 2 images per case, front and top view of each case

  2. • Conduct quality control reviews to assure that all image files meet technical qualification

  3. • Name files in accordance with John Adams Library file-naming scheme. Deliver high resolution, JPEG and TIFF files in CD or DVD format


Boston Public Library - ICDL Project 2007

Photographer

  1. • Digitally image no less than 5000 pages from BPL Jordan Collection tracts selected for submission to the International Children's Digital Library (ICDL) (http://icdlbooks.org/)

  2. • Create and process aforementioned images according to ICDL technical image standards (http://icdlbooks.org/contribute/scanning.shtml)

  3. • Process and arrange image files as one page per file, one complete book per directory

  4. • Name files in accordance with ICDL file-naming schema

  5. • Conduct quality control reviews to assure that all image files are organized into proper consecutive order as arranged in the original. Conduct quality control reviews to assure that all image files meet technical benchmarks set by ICDL and BPL Digital Library


Abraham Properties Inc. 2005

Photographer

  1. • Location photo shoot

  2. • Setup for company group shot

  3. • Scan each slide, color correct and do touch up

  4. • Create contact sheets for proofs

  5. • Create CD for client archive


Guardium Inc. 2004

Photographer

  1. • Location photo shoot

  2. • Setup for company products photo shoot

  3. • Setup for executive portraits photo shoot

  4. • Scan each slide, color correct and do touch up

  5. • Create contact sheets for proofs

  6. • Create CD for client archive


Café Kiraz 2003

Graphic Designer

  1. • Designed corporate identity, company business cards, and menu

  2. • Prep files for pre-press

  3. • Create CD for client archive


Image Consultant, Irene Chang 2002

Graphic Designer

  1. • Designed personal identity, personal business cards

  2. • Prep files for pre-press

  3. • Maintained small budget

  4. • Create CD for client archive


Gates&Bridges Co. 1999

Graphic Designer

  1. • Designed corporate identity, company business cards, catalog, customer sheets, order sheets and trade show banners

  2. • Designed company logo and information tags for company product

  3. • Hired illustrator and maintained budget for company catalog project

  4. • Prepared files for pre-press

  5. • Create CD for client archive


Café Podima 1998 - 1999

Graphic Designer

  1. • Designed corporate identity, company business cards, and menu

  2. • Prep files for pre-press

  3. • Create CD for client archive


The Art Institute of Boston, Du Pont Lecture Series 1997 - 1999

Videographer

  1. • Setup and shoot on location lecture hall

  2. • Maintain and label VHS video types

  3. • Check out and return institute equipment


experience

Boston Public Library June 2009 – present

Digital Imaging Production Assistant (Part-time)

  1. • Register and track BPL collection materials brought to studio for digitization

  2. • Digitally reformat items from the collections of the BPL using the most appropriate hardware devices, software applications, and imaging techniques available in the digital imaging studi

  3. • Perform post-capture image processing such as cropping, rotating, global color corrections as part of pre-ingest activities

  4. • Adhere to strict quality control guidelines, standards, and workflows assuring the long-term versatility and sustainability of digital image assets

  5. • Monitor and maintain routine calibrations and preference settings on monitors, input devices, and software applications

  6. • Assure proper naming and placement of image files within local and institutional network structures

  7. • Transcribe metadata into spreadsheets and databases


MIT CAVS February – May 2010

Internship (60 hrs.)

Supervisor: Jennifer Friedman, Collections Manager and Public Services Librarian, Rotch Library of Architecture and Planning

  1. • Transcribe Item Level documents into spreadsheets for Finding Aids

  2. • Rescue and document molded items from other location and create an inventory of each item

  3. • Transcribe metadata into spreadsheets and databases

  4. • Assist Curators with their research


Boston Photo Imaging May 2001 – February 2007

Senior Graphic Designer and Studio Photographer

  1. • Design and print business cards, brochures, trade show banners and ads for Boston Photo Imaging

  2. • Design and print client promotional posters and business cards

  3. • Design and print various types of invitations

  4. • Shoot traditional and digital large format studio photography for artists, libraries, private collections and universities

  5. • Maintain digital archives for Boston public and private libraries

  6. • Manage image archive retrieval and preparation for e-mailing to national and international Boston Public Library clients

  7. • Convert digital files to slides

  8. • Scan, color correct and prepare artist work for reproduction

  9. • Create Photoshop actions to master files for web use

  10. • Prep and press dye sublimation on tiles, coasters, mugs and T-shirts

  11. • Assist photographer on location photo shoots

  12. • Update computer hardware and software

  13. • Maintain in-house inventory

  14. • Mount and frame artwork reproductions


Sir Speedy February 2001 – May 2001

Graphic Designer

  1. • Design brochures for clients

  2. • Handle in-house pre-press preparation

  3. • Perform customer service


Empire Photo July 2000 – February 2001

Photo Lab Technician and Assistant Photographer

  1. • Develop and print C-41

  2. • Develop and print B&W

  3. • Studio portrait photography

  4. • Mount and frame artwork reproductions

  5. • Maintain in-house inventory

  6. • Perform customer service

  7. • Passport photos

  8. • Customer deliveries


Double Decker Studios Inc. Winter, 2000

Internship, Web Designer and Assistant for Art Director

  1. • Participate in developing concepts and designs for the new Double Decker Studios website

  2. • Assist Art Director with web design usability research


The Art Institute of Boston Spring Semester 1997 - Spring Semester 2000

Computer Lab Technician and Network Assistant

  1. • Update computer hardware and software

  2. • Create student identities and maintain their accounts

  3. • Assist students, staff & faculty with troubleshooting and printing

  4. • Maintain computer lab inventory

  5. • Create and maintain hub network

  6. • Manage and maintain equipment rental program for Institute

  7. • Setup new admin protected computers


The Art Institute of Boston Spring Semester 1999

Teacher Assistant for Intro. to Dreamweaver - Tom Kerr

  1. • Assist students with troubleshooting

  2. • Critique student work

  3. • Help students after class hours


The Art Institute of Boston Spring Semester 1999

Teacher Assistant for Intro. to Video I - Juan Mandelbaum

  1. • Assist students with troubleshooting

  2. • Critique student work

  3. • Help students after class hours


Children’s Hospital, Multi-Media Services November 1998 – April 1999

Part-time Multimedia Specialist

  1. • Design brochures for various hospital departments

  2. • Create and print patient data sheets with digitized imagery

  3. • Digitize hospital X-ray and DNA films

  4. • Create graphs and images for research publications

  5. • Create PowerPoint presentations for hospital doctors lectures

  6. • Assist hospital photographer; work with Public Affairs, hospital doctors and patient research photography


Haylaaz Production Summer 1997

Volunteer Production Assistant

  1. • Assist production manager with music video production

  2. • Help manage CB communications

  3. • Sound technician

  4. • Design signs for music video production


The Art Institute of Boston Spring Semester 1997

Teacher Assistant for Advanced Photoshop - Nancy Haselbacher

  1. • Assist students with troubleshooting

  2. • Critique student work

  3. • Help students after class hours


The Art Institute of Boston Spring Semester 1997

Director of Photography, Senior Catalogue "Connections"

  1. • Delegate photography assignments

  2. • Collect and organize senior portfolio pieces and essays

  3. • Assist in finding catalogue sponsors

  4. • Assist in maintaining budget

  5. • Attend meetings

  6. • Deliverables for deadline


Galley East A.I.B. Fall Semester 1997

Galley Assistant - Bonnie Robinson

  1. • Help maintain gallery

  2. • Design advertisement for gallery

  3. • Assist in hanging original art work

  4. • Send gallery communication

  5. • Assist in gallery openings


The Art Institute of Boston Fall Semester 1997

Teacher Assistant for Intro. to Photography- Jane D. Marsching

  1. • Assist students with troubleshooting

  2. • Critique student work

  3. • Help students after class hours


Angela Coppola October - May 1994

Fashion Photographer Assistant

  1. • Assist in studio set up

  2. • Develop and print B&W

  3. • Maintain studio inventory

  4. • Schedule appointments

  5. • Deliver images to clients


The Art Institute of Boston Spring Semester 1993 - Fall Semester 2000

Photo Lab Technician

  1. • Manage and maintain equipment rental program for Institute

  2. • Prepare lab chemicals for use in darkrooms and film processing

  3. • Maintain photo lab inventory

  4. • Assist students with use of institute equipment

  5. • Maintain photo lab


publications, awards & lectures

  1. • Acquired Tastes "200 Years of Collecting for Boston Athenaeum" published by Athenaeum Library, 2006

  2. • Konak "3 Günde Japonya", published by Beykoz Konak Vakfi, 4th issue July - Aug. 2005

  3. • Children’s Hospital News Letter, published by Public Affairs, Nov., 24 ’98, Jan. 5, ’99, Feb. 2, ’99, Feb. 16,’99

  4. • Connections Senior Catalogue, published by The Art Institute of Boston, 1997

  5. • Özel Tercüman High School Student Lecture, "Student Experience In Abroad.", Istanbul, Turkey, 1997

  6. • Peer Advisor The Art Institute of Boston, 1995-1996

  7. • Dean’s List The Art Institute of Boston, 1994, 1998


featured exhibitions

  1. • M.I.T. Rotch Library

Boston, MA, Japan Exhibition "Gaijin", 2005

  1. • P.T. Show feat. Turkey, U.S.A, Canada, Holland, and Spain

Brookline, MA , 2004

  1. • Kiraz Café [permanent collection]

119 Cambridge st. Cambridge, MA, since 2003

  1. • First Expressions Gallery

Boston, MA, Juried Exhibition, 1995-1998

  1. • Gallery East

Boston, MA, Senior Exhibition, 1997

  1. • The State House

Boston, MA, 1995

  1. • The Boston Public Library

Boston, MA, 1995

  1. • Boston City Hall

Boston, MA, 1995

  1. • Boston University Gallery

Turkish Exhibition, 1993

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Contact

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education

Simmons College

M.L.S., Archives Management, 2013

A.I.B. @ Lesley University

B.F.A., Graphic Design, 2000

Art Institute of Boston

B.F.A., Photography, 1997