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Michael Roy Pasini
291 Ulloa St. |
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OBJECTIVE |
A senior photographer position with a small workgroup or organization | |
QUALIFICATIONS |
Extensive expertise in digital imaging. Lighting for studio photography, photojournalism, high-resolution scanning. Post processing expertise in Lightroom, Photoshop, Optics Pro, numerous plug-ins (many of which I reviewed). Also highly skilled in production, including photo editing and page layout for print or Web, as well as crafting software to relieve bottlenecks. Excellent communicator. Can speak the same language as writers and graphic designers. | |
EMPLOYMENT |
Photo Corners, Editor & Publisher (12.2012 — Present) Founded and edited Photo Corners, the daily Web publication covering photography. Featured educational series on past photographers of note; Friday slide shows of my own images; wrote articles on several photo editing projects; numerous reviews of photo equipment, tools and techniques. Imaging Resource, Editor (11.1999 — 12.2012) Reviewed cameras, printers, software and accessories. Took product shots of dozens of cameras and accessories. Took gallery shots for review cameras. Covered major photo shows with photo essays, including 10-minute tours of show floors and all of the booth displays. The Underwriters' Wire, Editor (06.1997 — 09.1999) Editor of the daily national insurance Web site. Wrote QuarkXPress to HTML and AP Style utilities. Designed hand-coded site. Underwriters' Report, Vice President Held almost every position in production, editorial and management at the widely-respected West Coast insurance publication. Covered local events as photojournalist. | |
SOFTWARE |
Programming: Perl, JavaScript, Ajax, jQuery (Spry), PHP, MySQL (dBASE), C, 8088 Assembly Language; AppleScript; ImageMagick; HTML, CSS Applications: Adobe Creative Suite with expertise in Photoshop, InDesign, Premiere; Adobe Lightroom, DxO Optics Pro; Numbers (Excel, Multiplan), Pages (Word, WordStar); iMovie, iDVD; WordPress; iOS productivity apps | |
EDUCATION |
Bachelor of Arts, University of California at Berkeley (1974) The Field Major in the Social Sciences required a 110-page thesis for graduation. The thesis, West of Tomorrow, compared accounts of the Boston Massacre and the Isla Vista riots of 1970. Worked as a sophomore at the University of California at Santa Barbara for the Daily Nexus first as a Staff Reporter and then as City Editor. After graduation, completed half of the requirements for a Masters degree in political science at the University of Hawaii at Manoa (1975). | |
LANGUAGES |
English native speaker, Italian (see Translations) | |
REFERENCES |
Available on request. | |