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New York, New York, United States

New York, New York, United States

Manage cooling tower compliance and rebate tracking portfolio-wide.Track utility usage and identify inefficient buildings. Formulate solutions and coordinate changes. For example: LED retrofits for building common areas, or building-wide fixture replacement to reduce residential water usage. Manage and keep track of Service Contracts for the residential portfolio. Create comparisons for renewal and recommend changes based on contractor performance and/or price.

Greater New York City Area

•Photograph newly vacant or renovated apartments for online and print listings.•Make use of Bracketing, HDR, and other methods to equalize outdoor and indoor light. This makes everything in the apartment visible, including the view.•Select, archive, and edit selected photos. Use Lightroom and Photoshop to color correct, edit, and merge bracketed photographs.•Upload photographs to company database with watermark and appropriate filename for easy reference and use.

Greater New York City Area

•Write and quality check leases for short term furnished apartments.•Make contacts with procurement departments in multinational corporations who need a place to house their employees during extended stays in the financial district.•Coordinate logistics relating to bookings and availability.

Manhattan, Ny

•Prepare the existing contacts database for an upgrade by cleaning out worthless or duplicate contacts•Write SQL queries and figure out dynamic ways of filtering big data in order to make scrubbing more efficient. •Research, compile and mass import new contacts into existing database while quality checking for complete information.•Optimize database for coworkers by creating custom queries and filters better suited to their needs.

Bronx, Ny

•Analyze current real estate holdings as investments, future property investments, and data for energy efficiency measures and other property management projects •Modernize company branding and website design •Prepare documents for projects in progress (refinances, etc), and general office work such as scanning, faxing, mailing etc.

South Norwalk, Ct

•Coordinate, streamline, and design online profiles and photography for marketplace vendors.•Manage Social media accounts by updating content and keeping events up to date. This also includes creating content and photography to illustrate posts.•Initiate online advertising. This consisted mainly of researching local, popular bloggers and newspapers and networking with them to create awareness and a relationship between them and the market.•Pouring and mixing drinks.

Fairfield, Ct

•Retouch commissioned portrait, product, and group photographs.•Superimpose and silhouette group portraits, taking the best elements from multiple photographs and combining them into one image.•Create print items for parties and other events by superimposing elements of photographs onto invitations and other items, adding type, and synthesizing perspective between the two images.

Greater New York City Area

•Boosted sales numbers through individually tailored aesthetics and strategic merchandizing.•Informed and assisted clients throughout the buying process.•Honed interpersonal and sales skills while providing excellent customer service to a diverse range of clientele.

160 W. 60Th St.

•Teach photography students Darkroom techniques, as well as help them with Photoshop, negative scanning and related digital and analogue tasks.•Assist professors with image scanning and archiving.•Set up dark room equipment at the beginning of the day, mix chemicals, and clean up at the end of the day.

Tribeca, Ny

•Retouch fashion photography. This generally involved taking RAW photographs, manipulating them to print or magazine quality, and making sure they would not end up on ‘psdisasters.com.’•Coordinate the use of lighting and equipment -- rentals, set-up, functionality, etc. -- for photo shoots.•Assist with photo shoots, including helping to light the subject and determine the aperture, ISO, and other camera settings. This required an in depth knowledge of how various settings… Show more •Retouch fashion photography. This generally involved taking RAW photographs, manipulating them to print or magazine quality, and making sure they would not end up on ‘psdisasters.com.’•Coordinate the use of lighting and equipment -- rentals, set-up, functionality, etc. -- for photo shoots.•Assist with photo shoots, including helping to light the subject and determine the aperture, ISO, and other camera settings. This required an in depth knowledge of how various settings affect each other.•Manage color settings for print photography and coordinate color profiles with computers and printers. Show less

Bronx, Ny

•Assist professors with computer and equipment troubles, demonstrate to them how classroom technology works.•Fix broken equipment in classrooms and elsewhere such as smart podiums and projectors. •Log and Assess complaints by professors and other staff members regarding faulty or mishandled technology.

Bachelor'S Degree, Visual Arts, Gpa 3.22

Semester Abroad, Graphic Design