Michelle Jay Email & Phone Number

Somerville, Massachusetts, United States

- Organize, manage, maintain global creative assets in digital asset management platform with a specific focus on rights management and archival processes through accurate tagging- Assist in coordinating creative asset reviews between internal and external teams- Support studio manager in assigning retouching and maintaining post production timelines- Provide tier one support to internal users- Create training materials and train new employees on using the platform- Write and maintain documentation on standard operating procedures for DAM team- Collaborate with creative team stakeholder to enhance DAM platform, metadata fields, workflows, processes, and configurations

- Photographed events, sports, portraits, and more for various clients

- Lead a team of four photographers, all located in different cities- Implemented and maintained a DAM from scratch- Set and applied metadata standards and taxonomy- Developed and provided training for team-based employees on DAM platform- Managed internal and external creative requests

Greater Boston Area

- Managed multiple digital and physical image libraries- Identified goals and set plans for archiving team- Collaborated with other departments on project- Planned social media strategy for photo department- Assisted with day-to-day administrative tasks

- Photographed events, pre-game ceremonies and more around Fenway Park and with the Red Sox organization.

Boston University

Photograph images to accompany online and print stories as well as standalone; general sports photographer; men's hockey beat photographer.

Boston University

Edited blog posts; conceptualized, pitched, assigned, created and edited video content to accompany news stories online; managed social media account; collaborated with other editors to create interactive graphics to accompany news stories online.

Boston University

Choose, edit, and place images for daily paper; assign stories; photograph images to accompany online and print stories as well as standalone; women’s sports photographer.

Boston University

Photographed images to accompany stories in print and online as well as standalone; women’s sports beat photographer; pulled and edited sports photos; assigned stories.

Cambridge, Ma

Photographed events for Harvard Gazette; pitched, photographed and wrote two photo galleries.

Dupage County

Photographed images to accompany online and print stories as well as standalone.

Downers Grove, Il

Photographed images to accompany stories in print and online as well as standalone; photographed all images for 2 enterprise stories ran across 16 weekly papers.

Bachelor'S Degree, Photojournalism

Transfered in for the fall of 2012

Bfa, Photography

Transferred out after the spring of 2012 to pursue a different major at a different university.

Education record