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

• 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)

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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