Digital Imaging / Photoshop Scripting

2001 — Present

• Photo retouching of fashion, product and editorial content.
• Extensive restoration of damaged images.
• Advanced Scripting for Photoshop (Javascript).
• Comprehensive knowledge of imaging software:
  • Photoshop
  • Lightroom
  • Illustrator
  • InDesign
  • Quark (!)
  • Acrobat
  • Premiere

▪ Clients include:

• • FTD — Post-Production Artist, Photoshop scripting

  • Cat Gwynn Photography — Editorial, Architectural, Page layout

  • Reisig & Taylor Photography — Fashion, Sports advertising, Editorial

  • Paisano Publications — Editorial, Product catalog, Page layout

  • Stylecraft Marketing - Asics — Catalog

  • Ilona Lieberman Photography — Fashion, Beauty

  • Adam Kobrin Photography

Photography / Video Production & Editing

1997 — Present

• Commercial, architectural, fine-art, and editorial photography.
• Expert in all major camera and lighting systems, including video.
• Video post-production, including editing, effects, DVD authoring, etc.
• Video software:
  • Final Cut Pro
  • After Effects
  • Motion
  • DVD Studio Pro
• Audio software:
  • Logic Pro
  • Pro Tools
  • Soundtrack
  • Audacity
• 15 years of experience on commercial shoots based in Los Angeles and New York, in all major lighting and camera systems, film and digital.

• Photo Clients Include:
  • Jive Records
  • Asahi
  • Paisano Publications
  • Lighting & Sound Magazine

• Photo Assistant Clients:
  • Reisig & Taylor Photogrphy
  • Jim McHugh
  • Robert Berger Photography
  • David LaChapelle
  • Aaron Rapoport
  • ABC Television
  • Fox Television

Web Development / Programming

2008 — Present

• Experienced in many aspects of web development, including:
  • Front-end technologies such as Javascript, jQuery, Flash, HTML5, CSS3.
  • Server-side scripting with PHP, .htaccess, SASS, UNIX shell scripting
  • Page layout using Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Coda
  • Wordpress and other CMS tools, database management (MySQL)

Recent Projects:

• Caymanhorseriding.com – Design, development and programming of website for Grand Cayman horseback riding site. jQuery, CSS3, PHP.
• Deccoltd.com – Programming and maintenance of website for a Grand Cayman-based contractor. Wordpress, PHP, jQuery.
• Cat Gwynn.com – Portrait page for Los Angeles Photographer. Jquery, Flash, PHP.
• Adam Kobrin.com – Built my sites from the ground up, I'm always learning and developing! This animated page is built using no javascript, just the latest CSS3 technology.

Present

Continuing online education

• Lynda.com, Coursera.org
• Unix for Mac (Lynda.com)
• Regex (Lynda.com)
• Javascript AJAX (Lynda.com)
• Programming Languages (Univ. of Washington)
• Programming in Python (Rice University)
• Internet History, Technology, and Security
• (Univ. of Michigan)

2005

University of California, Los Angeles

• Continuing Education - Video Post-Production

1997-1999

Los Angeles City College

• Photojournalism

1983-1985

University of California, Santa Barbara

• English

• Accomplished musician and composer
• Other Software: Excel, Word, MAMP, Coda, Terminal
• Certified open-water diver

• Cooking, travel, film, music, politics, etc!