Sandra Whittington Email and Phone Number

Creative Director + Designer of jewelry, home goods, and apparel. One woman show creating, designing, promoting, and maintaining/evolving brand identity.

Full-time Senior Producer at Blink Media, based in NYC. In this role I'm responsible for communicating with clients, translating client needs to the business team to help build budgets, researching and making sure I am up-to-date with current industry rates and standards, communicating with photographers and filmmakers, booking shoots, onboarding vendors, building budgets and working within them, and ensuring the productions are carried out and go according to plan. I oversee post production, retouching, and asset management to ensure that we always deliver high-quality products to our clients.I am frequently leading 3-4 large projects single handedly at any given time and function equally well as a High Volume Production Senior Producer as well as a creative producer for higher-end creative campaigns. The work resulting from my productions have been used on countless websites, social media platforms, news outlets, and billboards - to name a few. For one client alone, I have completed nearly 600 shoots worldwide with the help of my team - a test to our diligence, organization, and communication skills.I also work to make sure our team is conducting multiple virtual coffee/portfolio reviews with photographers and filmmakers each month to ensure a strong connection with the community.

Full-time producer at Blink Media, based in NYC. In this role I was responsible for aiding the Senior and Executive producers in their communications with clients, building pitch decks, communicating with photographers and filmmakers, booking shoots, onboarding vendors, building budgets and working within them, and ensuring the productions are carried out and go according to plan. --Blink is an integrated technology and creative production agency headquartered in New York. Our teams in North America, LatAm, and Asia leverage local creatives in over 180 countries to deliver efficient and impactful storytelling at scale. Our workflows are designed to steer through complexity, create clarity throughout production and pave the way for the most powerful stories to be told.

Freelance retoucher for independent photographers, news outlets, and creative organizations primarily based in the NYC + ATL area.Clients include but are not limited to: Ruven Afanador, Domino Magazine, Victoria Will, Boot Barn, ESPN, ESPN-W, Levi's, Bergdorf Goodman, Kevin Tachman, Carolina Herrera, Thakoon, Versace, Kylie Jenner, Christian Oth Studio, and Danielle Frankel, and Shawn Connell. Images have been published in a variety of platforms including Harper's Bazaar, Net-A-Porter, Vogue, Black Tomato.

• Developed and implemented social media strategies to increase brand visibility and engagement for This Must Be The Place, a non-profit organization.• Educated CEO and COO on social media strategies for specific client bases.• Analyzed social media data and provided recommendations for improving performance and ROI.• Created and managed social media content calendar to ensure consistent posting and engaging content.----------This Must Be The Place is a 501(c)(3) that harnesses the power of music to create the backbone of a non-profit whose purpose is to provide a shared space and the tools necessary to transform, inspire, and heal. We travel the country, to music and art festivals, handing out thousands of doses of free Naloxone in the fight against the fentanyl epidemic. We strive to reach people of all ages, races, genders, and zip codes, but we have a long way to go. It is our goal to normalize naloxone and other overdose prevention tools in every corner of the country, because only then can we curb the deaths that continue to be caused by this unfortunate epidemic.

Freelance photo editor for independent photographers, news outlets, and creative organizations primarily based in the NYC + ATL area.My roles include but are not limited to the following: color correcting and retouching images using Capture One + Photoshop, culling, cataloguing, editing large batches of images. Need for Speed -- editing hundreds of images to completion in a small timeframe.

Freelance producer for independent photographers, news outlets, and creative organizations primarily based in the NYC + ATL area.Clients include Air BnB other independent photographers based in the New York City area.

Full time retoucher for critically-acclaimed, renowned wedding photographer Christian Oth.My roles included but were not limited to the following: color correcting and retouching images using Capture One + Photoshop, culling, cataloguing, editing large batches of images. Need for Speed -- editing hundreds of images to completion in a small timeframe.Photo Editing: Backing up large volumes of data onto multiple servers, culling images, building stories as end product for client use, etc. Printing all in-house orders on large Epson printer. This requires extensive knowledge of the software and hardware and a keen eye for correct print color, banning, or defects.

Full-time studio manager for Victoria Will - a celebrity, advertising, and editorial photographer. My role/primary focus was to ensure that business runs smoothly - i.e. taking care of all the small behind-the-scenes moving parts that ensure shoots, deadlines, and projects go according to plan. My duties included but were not limited to: producing large-scale shoots for magazines and other clients, data management (including backing up images and making sure images from shoots are integrated into the database), retouching (both extensive and light retouching), invoicing of clients as well as paying independent contractors, gear rental and return, research, updating and maintaining photographer's gear, social media consultation and uploading, and bank account management for business purposes.

Remote intern for the critically-acclaimed photojournalism agency VII. My duties included but were not limited to the following: image research, contact research, content management of website, archiving, caption editing, and leading social media campaigns to strengthen the viewer base.

In this role I taught and mentored children between the ages of 5 and 12 in the Greater Seattle Area. We provide and cook healthy snacks/meals, promote healthy learning through interactive games, active play, educational classes, and strong mentor-mentee relationships. In the winter/spring session I will be teaching an immersive photography class that will incorporate workshops on camera use, how to take a picture, what components make a good picture, learning to recognize good imagery, and having fun with photography.

Remote intern for the independent film company Rake Films: creators of the critically-acclaimed film, "Frame by Frame" - recognized by various organizations including HotDocs, SXSW, AFI Docs, Ashland Independent Film Festival, BFI London Film Festival, and the Camden International Film Festival. My role included a slew of production work from transcribing video and audio to finding local translators, to basic video editing and data management - along with extensive research.

Weekly volunteering monitoring of the Photo Center Northwest's darkroom. Responsibilities include but are not limited to darkroom set up and take down (including chemical preparation), equipment maintenance and organization, putting together equipment boxes for darkroom users to use, scheduling members' access to equipment, and rental equipment management.

TA for Nichole DeMent's Artist Trust workshop, "I Am An Artist." This workshop was a weekend-long intensive program that covered marketing strategies, calculating studio, work, and other usable spaces by price per foot, how to find spaces via existing resources, and how to reach out to potential partners and clients for work and opportunities. There were also a number of guest speakers from various artistic fields in the Seattle area.

In this role I teach educational courses such as cooking and art history and technique. I also provide support to other YMCA instructors teaching classes such as science and world culture. This role requires me to be well-organized, time conscious, flexible, strategic, and upbeat. My roles include but were not limited to the following: research, lesson planning, organization of children during classes.

Full-time camp counselor for the YMCA in the greater Seattle area. In this role I am not only an entertainer, but I'm also a role-model, a first aid-kit, a mentor, and a safe place for children under my care and in the camp as a whole. In this role I was required to be fair, good at time management, decisive, organized, upbeat, and easily approachable by children, their families, and the Y staff.

Marketing Director for Boys Tribe and Girls Tribe, a non-profit registered in Washington state. In this role I primarily looked for ways to broaden our client base. In doing so I conduct extensive research, correspond with schools, parents, local business, write content for the brochures and website, as well as photograph events, spaces, and members of BT and GT.My roles include but are not limited to the following: emailing/corresponding with parents, schools, principals, and local businesses, meeting with school staff and parents to plan events, grant-writing, brochure writing, graphic design, and photographing events, spaces, and members.

In this position I helped in archiving previous shows that had been up at CoCA from roughly 1975 - 2014. Duties include but are not limited to: slide cleaning and scanning, image editing, organizing collections of images, insertion of metadata for server upload.

Primary photographer and second videographer for the opening night of Fougeron's show "Heart of The South Bronx: Trades." Curated by Elisabeth Biondi.

Stand-alone photographer for Passages, an outdoor adventure camp for children. I was required to photograph children while rock climbing and kayaking; I had to be quick with camera and flash settings as well as quick with my footing and location while encouraging the campers.

Responsible for photographing promotional events for the Massey Cancer 5k and producing, filming, and editing a large-scale promotional video for the 2014 race.My roles include but were not limited to the following: extended b-roll filming, in-studio filming, photographing events, editing final promotional pieces (with audio) for the VCU Massey Cancer Center.

Responsible for photographing and writing articles about art events in the state of Virginia ranging from Richmond to Washington, DC, to the western part of the state. My roles include but were not limited to the following: research, writing of articles, communication with editors, subjects, and community members, and editing of final pieces.

Photographer and videographer of everyday events and special events, on location at the museum and off-site. Images were used for social media sites as well as for advertising purposes.My roles included but were not limited to the following: photographing, editing, culling, retouching, and creating mock ups of signs and advertisements for the museum.

Responsible for all photos, whether it was the taking of the pictures, editing, or deciding which photos to use in the publication.My roles include but were not limited to the following: taking pictures, editing, deciding which photos to use in the publication, and archiving images.

As an Academic Media Assistant, my primary role was to help students and professors utilize software such as Adobe Photoshop and InDesign or hardware such as the library scanners and photography equipment. Duties included but not limited to: software and hardware tutorials (both in-person and written), software and hardware testing and repair, setting up and running open workshops, in-depth customer service for students and professors.

Responsible for all photos in the AHS yearbook. My roles included but were not limited to the following: taking pictures, editing, deciding which photos to use in the publication. Also was in charge of archiving images and leading photography workshops. Our 2008 yearbook was the recipient of a national award.