Suzi Pratt is a seasoned photographer with over 10 years of experience in covering large corporate events (conferences, festivals, annual meetings, galas) and residential and commercial real estate with a focus on hotels and apartment complexes. She was previously active as a food, restaurant, music, and concert photographer and still accepts those types of assignments on a limited basis.Partial Commercial Client List - Google, American Express, Metropolitan Grill, PCC Markets, Tarragon LLC, Columbia Hospitality,Lincoln South Food Hall, Salt and Straw, Taste Washington, Charles Smith Wines, Mark Ryan Winery.Partial Editorial Client List: Bon Appétit Magazine, Food and Wine Magazine, Eater Seattle, The Stranger, Seattle Metropolitan Magazine, Visit Bellevue, Visit Seattle, Sunset Magazine.RESPONSIBILITIES• Manage a team of photographers to cover events and photo shoots in the Seattle and Pacific Northwest region.• Collaborate with creative teams to innovate and bring a creative concept to life by managing every facet of photo production, including the scouting and booking of photo shoot location and talent.• Partner with creative director, art directors, print and web production teams and merchandise managers to schedule shoots based on production deadlines, availability, and monetary budgets.• Execute all aspects of photo shoot including post production and delivery of images to the client under tight deadlines.• Manage all financial and legal components of photo shoots including developing contracts, rights, permits, insurance etc.

Entertainment and corporate events photographer to Getty Images and its umbrella wire image brands of Film Magic and Wire Image. My focus is on special event photography coverage such as red carpet events, festivals, concerts, and conferences occurring in the Seattle area and beyond. As a wire service photographer, I am tasked with attending and photographing events according to a pre-determined shot list and immediately editing, captioning, and transmitting the photos.I have worked for various large companies through Getty including Vogue, Hulu, Warner Media, American Express, and ULTA Beauty. I have also had photos published in large publications including Rolling Stone, People Magazine, USA Today, New York Daily News, ESPN, and more.Responsibilities:- Photograph entertainment, news, and music events.- Use insightful judgment to shoot, edit, and select impactful photographs to tell a compelling story.- Collaborate with photo editors and clients to provide editing guidance and actionable feedback.- Available and prepared to travel for single and multi-day event assignments.- Excellent communicator, decisive, deadline-driven, people-oriented person..- Exceptional at achieving time-sensitive production goals while managing multiple (and competing) priorities and imminent deadlines.- Shoot, select, and upload photographs with consideration for the market, customers, and deadlines.- Build and sustain partnerships with public relations teams, event organizers, and assignment editors.- Expertise working with industry-standard image editing tools including Adobe Photoshop, Photo Mechanic, and FTP clients.

I photograph the interiors of brand new restaurants and culinary spaces in Seattle and also take portraits of chefs and other key players in the local culinary industry.I produce and direct all aspects of photo shoots and provide creative direction and project management of all aspects of photo shoots. I also provide operational direction on photo shoots and oversee all productions while keeping shoots timely and on budget.

Digital Photography School (DPS) is one of the most popular and longest-running blogs on the web about photography. Suzi has written how-to tutorial articles and camera product reviews for DPS since 2014. Her role includes drafting and writing long articles and taking high-quality product photos to accompany each post.

Public relations for Seattle restaurants including Joule Restaurant, Revel, Artusi, Spinasse, Trace Restaurant, Parfait Seattle and W Seattle. Duties include social media maintenance, writing and sending out press releases, putting together blogs, and constantly maintaining a contact sheet of relevant national media within the restaurant, entertainment, and travel industries.

Coordinated and executed photo shoots of interiors, exteriors, products, and services offered by local Seattle businesses. All photos were promotional material for use in the online newsletters and websites for Bloomspot.com, a daily deals website. Work was terminated upon the acquisition of Bloomspot.com by JP Morgan Chase in 2013.

As an event photographer, I attended and photographed local Seattle events for publication on Metromix Seattle. I worked closely with the local brand ambassador and national assignments editor to carefully select relevant events to attend and to promote the Metromix brand among consumers. Work with Metromix was terminated upon its acquisition in 2012.

● Provide administrative support to business team, organizing and managing logistics for meetings and events.● Coordinate corporate communications among worldwide team members, translating documents to incorporate cultural and linguistic differences.● Calculate and organize monthly data reports, transmitting results to end users.● Identify process improvements and work with developers to incorporate changes and record process documentation manuals.

● Compose, manage, and prioritize online content (digital and text files) for daily publication. ● Collaborate with other editors and contributors to obtain copy for publication.● Copyedit written text to AP standards; select digital and online content to accompany copy.● Incorporate SEO tactics to market online content and drive website traffic.● Correspond with national public relations agents, band managers, and record labels to promote SSG Music brand and organize press coverage of local music events. ● Facilitate training of new writers and photographers.

Research and process disputes related to commissions payments to maintain department-wide service level agreements (SLA).● Maintain a thorough understanding of complex compensation plans to manage and enforce payment compliance.● Evaluate and analyze processes within the commissioning process in an effort to increase accuracy and decrease the amount of future disputes.● Main point of contact for collecting and researching data for new early upgrade program.

Financial analyst support of the engineering and mechanical teams building the interiors of the 787 Dreamliner and 747-8 jumbo jet at the main factory of The Boeing Company.• Evaluate, document, and integrate new Lean process metrics to drive cost reduction among internal and external business partners.• Maintain relationships with engineering and operations managers to oversee acquisition of capital assets by analyzing work statements and defining project deliverables. • Monitor quarterly budget forecast and provide status updates to managers, advising them with how to comply with staffing and financial budget constraints.• Extract large quantities of data using multiple databases, organizing data into weekly metric reports using spreadsheets and pivot tables to provide variance analyses.

Exercising and monitoring behavioral patterns of sheltered dogs, and introducing them to potential adoptive families.

Used Microsoft Excel and Access to create daily financial reports for internal and external analysts. Make daily calls to external analysts to collect and update financial data.