Sandy Conway Email & Phone Number

Greater Chicago Area

I specialize in portrait, family, and wedding photography, with 20+ years of experience in the photography field. I have extensive experience with infants and children of all ages.

Greater Chicago Area

Bella Baby photographers specialize in creative and compelling lifestyle photography for newborns in the hospital environment. Responsibilities include interacting with hospital patients and staff while adhering to strict HIPPA standards.Working independently, we strive to deliver a great experience for our hospital clients, providing them with high quality, artistic images for them to cherish of their new baby during their first few days of life.We greet our clients to explain our process and gain interest, photograph the session, edit the images in-house, then present the images to the client in order to sell our product. We are encouraged to attend workshops and continued education in order to keep our skills fresh. We also share tips and best practices internally, which fosters teamwork and inspiration.

Greater Chicago Area

• 18 years of retail management experience managing $500,000 store with 6-15 employees. Experience covers profit / loss, personnel, recruiting, hiring, training, payroll, disciplinary action, scheduling, sales, customer service, business development, organization management, marketing; as well as being thelead photographer on staff in charge of coaching and training. Demonstrated ability to lead a team and grow the business year over year, with significant labor margin and profit increases.• Promoted to Regional Field Trainer in 2004. Responsibilities included: • Develop comprehensive training plans and curriculum to drive photographing to sell skills in assigned studios.• Ensure skill level of assigned studio managers and associates improve in a reasonable, clearly communicated timeframe to achieve and sustain the sales average above the non-trainer studios.• Review progress with Regional Manager/Sr.Territory Manager/Territory Manager.• Conduct training classes and road rallies for assigned studios.• Assess training materials and strategies and recommend revisions to materials and strategies as needed.• Provide effective communication and feedback to RM/TM/DM/Home Office on photography and sales process.• Deliver photography & sales coaching feedback by monitoring performance and analyzing photography, sales and customer service trends.

Certificate, Cosmetology/Cosmetologist, General

Diploma, General Studies

Activities and Societies: Chorus, Tap Dancing, Creative Writing, Photography