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Costa Rica

- Led the conceptualization and execution of product photography, presenting tailored visual strategies to meet client needs and overseeing all stages from initial idea to final retouching.- Managed teams to cover the Semana del Diseño de Costa Rica event, ensuring comprehensive event coverage and high-quality deliverables while maintaining positive relationships with the marketing team, vendors, and invited speakers.- Guided junior and intern photography teams, ensuring adherence to studio workflows and task management, while developing career plans, conducting feedback sessions, and reporting progress to studio managers and owners. Focused on achieving team goals and fostering individual career growth.- Optimized retouching workflows to maximize efficiency and quality while meeting project deadlines, incorporating innovative software tools such as Adobe Firefly and Midjourney.

- Effectively communicated with clients such as Everty and Museos del Banco Central de Costa Rica to understand their vision, needs, and preferences, ensuring that final images met their expectations.- Led pre-production, production, and post-production phases of visual media projects, while overseeing art direction. Created cohesive visual communication experiences where form and function materialized seamlessly.- Expertly composited multi-part elements with a deep understanding of lighting, scale, perspective, focus, realism, color balancing, and grain structure to achieve high-quality visual compositions.- Applied advanced retouching techniques, procedures, and capabilities for image compositing, manipulation, color grading, and color adjustments in RGB and CMYK formats.

Costa Rica

- Developed structured study plans for courses in Basics of Photography, Photography Lighting, and Product Photography, ensuring comprehensive learning objectives and practical application for students.- Fostered a trust-based communication environment in classes, actively addressing individual student needs to enhance learning outcomes and engagement.- Evaluated student work, provided feedback, assigned grades, and maintained accurate grade records to ensure clear and effective academic assessment.

Costa Rica

- Led photography for university events, defining and creating visual content used across social media, e-commerce, print, and web platforms.- Assisted international photographers during workshops hosted at the university, supporting their sessions and contributing to the successful execution of educational events.- Directed event coverage with adeptness in capturing pivotal moments, leveraging technical proficiency, adaptability, effective communication, and rigorous time management to deliver compelling photography.

Costa Rica

- Managed team tasks to ensure business objectives were met, oversaw internal equipment procurement, and handled vendor quotations.- Created stock campaign photography in partnership with the Creativity and Marketing departments for multiple ongoing projects. Clients include Pandora, Hyundai, and BAC Credomatic.- Oversaw the retouching of external materials, focusing on high-end retouching, color grading, and image compositing.

Associate Degree In Digital Photography, Photography

Associate Degree In Video Production, Audiovisual Communications Technologies/Technicians