• Photograph weddings/special events/portraits. • Digitally restore, color correct, or colorize restoration orders. • Edit/correct digital photographs from shoots and prepare them for web and print. • Design custom digital albums for clients. • Create/design promotional materials and develop marketing strategies.

Responsible for registration and training of ~5k national volunteers who perform fund raising, student orientations, host family screenings, airport arrivals & departures and more. Provide customer service to new and current volunteers. Perform in person and web-based training for volunteers, Team Development Specialists and Seasonal Staff in daily operation of duties. Create content for web-based training modules and AFS online resources. Trouble shoot/resolve volunteers database/technology issues remotely. Integrate State Department initiatives through data gathering and synthesizing of information.• Member of Learning & Development training team. Organize and conduct Skill Share sessions demonstrating new technologies, procedures, and methodologies to enhance staff development.• Key member of team that created new volunteer online orientation process. Developed contentand partnered with IT to create, test and roll out module.• Member of team that developed an in-depth Interview section mandated by the US StateDepartment that improved the online volunteer registration form.• Chosen to manage & audit the AFS-USA web site content, Goggle analytics, and AFS Wikipedia articles for the Volunteer Resources Department.• Redesigned 2 sections of website using XML, HTML, CSS, & Content Management System.• Utilize HTML 4.0 Transitional to create an online & email newsletter seen by 5k volunteers.• Moderate AFS-USA Volunteer Blog (WordPress Blog)• Beta user for World Café (AFS Social Media website).• Chosen to attend prestigious international SIIC (Intercultural Learning Conference) 2013 & 2011.

• Led up to 10 seasonal team members processing ~2500 incoming student applications and 2500 US host family applications. Trained and assigned daily duties; assisted manager in interviews and new hires.• Member of team to coordinate the transition from paper to electronic application process.• Chosen from amongst peers to chaperone 40 exchange students traveling to Italy.• Communicated with AFS staffers in partner countries to trouble shoot & resolve any application issues.• Managed Global Link database host family applications; acted as liaison between Hosting Admissions and NY corporate IT team.• Created training Policy & Procedures binder to be used for new hires.• Generated reports for volunteers and staff • Set up and maintained digital and physical filing systems• Performed other general office duties including ordering supplies, scanning, sorting mail, mailings, covering for reception, and photocopying.

Processed ~1600 American student applications and pre-apps annually in addition to host familypaperwork. Performed office duties i.e., data entry, filing, mailings, running reports, and photocopying.

• Downloaded all digital photographs as they were taken • Corrected digital photographs using Adobe Photoshop v.7.0, CS, and CS2• Produced slide show for client of photographs for wedding reception

• Created and printed custom business cards, invitations and signs for the public• Aided customers with copy machines, merchandise, orders, faxing, and shipping• Learned to multitask at front counter (working on full service copy jobs, answering multi-line phones, greeting, operating the register, and aid customers with other tasks listed above)

• Acted as assistant and secondary photographer on some shoots • Assisted in production of client albums and folios • Designed promotional flyers in Microsoft Publisher

• Hand developed black and white film • Scanned, cropped, and corrected photographs in Adobe Photoshop for publication • Trained photographers in darkroom and Adobe Photoshop techniques