Kathryn (Kat) Hall St. Peter Email & Phone Number

West Rutland, Vt, Us

Manchester, Vermont, United States

• Retouching studio and on-location model photography across a wide range of subjects, including apparel, food, domestics, and illustrations, while maintaining brand style and consistency.• Execute editing and quality approval for The Vermont Country Store’s historic catalog cover image, with an annual print run of over 50 million copies.• Contributed to the redesign and modernization of the organization’s DAM process and policies, implementing a new keywording structure to improve searchability across all images and offloading expired assets.• Responsible for the daily management of the improved DAM, including ingesting assets, keywording, archiving expired digital assets, and managing user accounts and training.• Consistently meet tight deadlines while collaborating closely with all members of the creative team, including illustrators, photographers, graphic designers and copywriters.

Burlington, Vermont, United States

Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area

• Consistently produce quality digital images balancing productivity and execution while maintaining established guidelines and standards• Collaborate with inter and intra-departmental team members to complete both short and long-term projects on time and on budget• Effectively use Adobe Photoshop to retouch captured images including drop out backgrounds, composite, remove dust and color correct to match products• Evaluate any photos supplied by vendors for quality and file size• Maintain an organized archive of all photography assets• Troubleshoot all image related issues with website• Improve and maintain best practices for launch of new e-commerce products including Marketing promotions and style guides• Maintain and inventory studio equipment to keep photography production on schedule and technology up to date

• Supervise and coordinate the repair of both customer and company owned photography, video and lighting equipment• Maintain best practices and relationships with established industry vendor accounts, open new accounts when beneficial and analyze account performances over time• Manage and process all defective and aging inventory for return to vendors• Maintain accurate inventory in multiple warehouses and troubleshoot inventory discrepancies • Assist with all shipping and receiving• Develop and update company procedures for repair, defectives, inventory control and warehouse operations for optimum performanceDigital Printing & Retouching Specialist (October 2012 - December 2013)• Project management of all print related company material including store banners, store galleries, billboards and advertisements• Work with Marketing Department for file editing pre-press and high quality wide format print execution• On-site photography file retouching as needed for both Marketing Department and clients• Data recovery and file management of client’s media• Printer and paper sales with recommendations based on client’s needs and applications• Technical support of printing and data management both in store and off site• Analyze print production costs in multiple platform types and create quotes for clients• Expert understanding of industry print practices on multiple platforms with emphasis on wide format printing• Providing excellent customer service

Portland, Oregon Area

• Digital retouching using Photoshop of in house produced photography files· Meet all digital retouching and color correction project goals in a timely manner while upholding industry standards for quality• Effectively meet the requirements of Iridio Art Directors and clients for all file production

Greater Boston Area

• Supervising the loaning of photography department equipment• Troubleshooting and maintenance of digital and analog photography studio equipment

Greater Boston Area

• Photograph and edit assignments for print in The Weekly Dig Newspaper and for use online at DigBoston.com• Photography directing, production and editing for CHOMP magazine

Greater Boston Area

• Supervising quality control and meeting production standards for photographic materials• Photographic lab equipment mechanical maintenance, repair and technical support• Scheduling and managing a team including sales coaching and meeting company goals

Bachelor Of Fine Arts (B.F.A.), Photography

Activities and Societies: All School Show Photography Department Curator, Photographic Techniques Teacher's Assistant, Photography.

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