Resume

Objective

 

Serve the needs of a creative center by applying product and lifestyle photographic experience along with over 10 years of Macintosh and PC end-user support skills, color and digital asset management, automated backup, wired and wireless networking, and voice/data services integration.

 

Work Experience

 

• In-House Photographer

10/2004 - Present GoBig Branding, Needham, MA

Responsible for all requested client product photography. Interact with art director to provide photography complimentary to design goals.

Employ a variety of lighting equipment–hot lights, small strobes, variable power monolights–and a variety of light modifiers–gobos, diffusion/reflector panels, light tents.

Work has been published nationally in campaigns for New Balance sneakers, Dunkin’ Donuts, Symmons faucets, and Cape Cod Potato Chips. Advertisements published in Sports Illustrated, Oprah Magazine, Runners World.

Portfolio is available for viewing at www.shootmatt.com/blog/portfolio

• IT Manager

10/2004 - Present GoBig Branding Inc., Needham, MA

Manage all IT related aspects for a branding and design studio, including end user support, training of creative applications, email and FTP, and operating systems. Coordinate company-wide hardware and software purchases, as well as upgrades to company and client tools (marketing tracker, client extra-net upload site).

Maintain all service contracts, onsite and offsite voice and data services, file, web, and email hosting. Implement color management to reduce overhead and a standard file storage and naming scheme to increase employee efficiency and effectiveness.

Authored ‘Recommended Practices’ guide to accelerate the training of new employees, consolidated all prior files to a series of RAID drives to avoid data loss, and implemented a backup strategy that encompassed all servers, desktops, and laptops.

Oversaw the complete reorganization of the company office, resulting in a larger usable space for comping of projects, increased capacity for employee workstations, and a new showcase for company work. This simultaneously established space for an in-house photographic studio.

• Operations/Ramp Agent

9/2001 - 10/2004 Southwest Airlines, Providence, RI
Co-ordinated operations of ground and in-flight crews for a total of five ‘on-time’ flights a day. Provided front line customer service while assisting in de-boarding and boarding of passengers.

Ensured the proper provisioning of in-flight snacks and refreshments, the unloading, and loading of passenger baggage and, finally, the completion all necessary flight crew paperwork.

Nominated as employee of the quarter. Was featured in Southwest Airlines television commercial as recognition for contributions, and was the ‘go to’ employee for problematic/time constrained flights.

• Image Editor

10/2000 - 4/2001 Homeportfolio.com, Newtonville, MA
Acquired, edited, and color corrected images for web output as part of internally focused imagining department. Cross utilized by imaging and IT departments due to unique combination of technical and photographic skills.

• Network Technician

1/2000 - 7/2000 School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA
Created and maintained student and faculty network accounts. Assisted students and faculty in the use of their accounts and the school network. Troubleshot and maintained hardware and software for student/faculty.

• MFA, Boston Web Marketing Assistant

10/1999 - 6/2000 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA
Optimized graphics, scanned and color corrected images, design layout and icons for web publication. Authored content for the MFA intranet and internet.

• Teaching Assistant

10/1997 - 6/2000 School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA
Trained, critiqued, and advised students in best practices and proper use of hardware and software necessary for completion of class assignments.

Worked with teachers in lesson planning and after school tutoring.

Taught key programs, including Photoshop, Illustrator, Quark. Reinforced proper management of files, printers, scanners, and network use.

• Web Designer

10/1999 - 6/2000 School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA
Created website to serve the needs of a photo history class. Scanned and color corrected slides, designed interface, coded html pages, while working in close collaboration with faculty.

• Macintosh Lab Monitor

9/1999 - 1/2000 School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA
Maintained a lab of fifty Mac Computers, four printers, and five scanners. Tutored students in web, ftp, and html usage, as well as creative applications (Photoshop, Illustrator, Quark) and Mac OS usage. Instructed students in proper use of digital cameras, flatbed and negative film scanners, digital tablets, and CD burners.

Education

 

Tufts University and The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA, 2000.
BFA with concentrations in Photography, Graphic Arts, and Web Design.

Skills

 

Apple’s Aperture
Adobe Creative Suite (1, 2, 3)
Digital and Analog Photography
Digital Asset Management
Color Management (profile creation and implementation)
Exceptional Macintosh OS (10.0-10.4.10) proficiency
Technical training skills
Font Management
IP Network Administration - Routers, IP Addressing
Scanning materials for print and the web
Basic Windows 98, XP proficiency and networking familiarity