Experience & Employment History

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GRAPHIC DESIGNER

AlphaGraphics locations in Duluth, Atlanta, & Dunwoody (same franchisee)

1997-2020

 

Graphic Designer for print company offering full range of services for printing, marketing, and fulfillment services. Roles extended into client service, business analysis for marketing recommendations, editorial/writing assistance, branding strategies. Collaborating on design and branding considerations for Emory University (major client). Supervision of junior designer(s).

 

Original content creation & other job functions:

   • layout of all types of publications, including, but not limited to brochures, newsletters, flyers, advertisements, directories, annual reports, magazines, manuals;

   • original logos and corporate or individual identities, trademarks; stationery packages & business cards

   • web, e-commerce strategy, implementation

   • website content management, image creation, HTML

   • ISO 9000 compliance, internal audits

 

Preflight and Prepress for customer files and artwork:

    • color correction, enhancement, redesign, repair, consolidation, repurposing

    • digital reproduction, offset litho, spot & 4-color process

 

Proficient in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, InDesign), Quark XPress, Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PitStop Professional, Quite Imposing, Pages, Numbers, Keynote

 

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PHOTOGRAPHER

Owner, CrossRoads Photography, Atlanta, Georgia

1995-2010

 

Owner and sole proprietor, providing custom photographic services, specializing in Fine Art environmental portraiture of children, families, and individuals. 

 

Interior and exterior architectural work also a segment of the studio's offerings. Photographer for the Sugarloaf Holiday Tour of Homes for 2005, 2006, and 2007, with work published in Atlanta Magazine.

 

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CHORAL CONDUCTOR

Artistic Director, Atlanta Schola Cantorum

2007-2018

 

Atlanta Schola Cantorum, founded in 1974 and thus the area's oldest independent chorus, presents two or three sets of concerts each year in the Atlanta area. 

 

The core of the choir's repertory is the polyphonic sacred music of the Renaissance, especially Josquin, Palestrina, Victoria, Tallis, and Byrd.  The group has offered the first local performances of Hildegard von Bingen (in the mid-1970s) and early Spanish music from the Las Huelgas Codex and Llibre Vermell, and has reached forward to Monteverdi, Sweelinck, Hassler, Aichinger, and Bach. 

 

Like many early music choruses, Schola feels an affinity with such contemporary composers as Pärt, Tavener, and Lauridsen. The group frequently performs in Charleston, SC, as part of the Piccolo Spoleto music festival.

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ORGANIST & CHOIR DIRECTOR

St. Bede's Episcopal Church, Atlanta, Georgia

2009-present

 

• Provide and oversee all aspects of music program for Episcopal parish in Diocese of Atlanta

• Plan and choose all music for all worship services requiring music through the year, weddings, funerals

• Play organ, or other instruments, for services and other parish events needing music

• Recruit, train, rehearse, direct, and pastorally serve two choirs: one adult mixed choir, one children's choir

• Oversee the maintenance of musical instruments

• Organize and maintain music library

• Work with clergy and lay staff in collegial planning environment

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CALLIGRAPHER

Freelance, 1984-present

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Commissions for certificates, wall decor, bookplates, posters

Member and participant in exhibits with Chicago Calligraphy Collective

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Education and Affiliations

 

Westminster Choir College

Princeton, NJ

Master of Music, 1981-1983

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Chapel Hill, NC

Bachelor of Music Education, 1973-1978

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Photography classes and workshops through Georgia Professional Photographers Association & Professionsl Photographers of America.  Member PPA.

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Private calligraphy study with Alexandru Ionescu-Lungu (Chicago, IL)

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Member in good standing:

Professional Photographers of America (PPA)

American Institute of Graphic Artists (AIGA)

International Association of Master Penmen, Engrossers, and Teachers of Handwriting (IAMPETH)

American Choral Directors Association (ACDA)