About me

Jo Bongard

16 Fennfields Road

South Woodham Ferrers

Essex. CM3 5RZ

Mob:

Date of Birth: 27th December 1986

Profile

I'm a highly motivated individual with an outgoing personality. I love working within a creative environment, and like a challenge. I'm also very resourceful and driven towards meeting goals.

Abilities

I have been professionally retouching images for 3 years.

I have extensive knowledge in Adobe Photoshop and Phase One software.

Good people skills and a polite telephone manner.

Work History

Mar 2006-Dec 2008 - Style Director, Venture

Venture is a premium brand photographic company, which specialises in family portraits. I started as a trainee photographer in the company and moved up within the studio to the Managing Style Director role.

I had many aspects to my job which included shooting my own images within a studio environment, telesales and sales, but my favorite aspect of the role was the retouching of clients images.

As well as shooting a lot of the studio's images I was the studio's primary retoucher, working through an extensive workflow. Using a mixture of Phase One and Photoshop I took raw images and prepared them for, often very large, lab production.

Jan 2004-Mar 2006 - Waitress/Supervisor, Shaw Farm Public House

Working for a catering company as a waitress, through it I have gained valuable knowledge in the field of customer service, and have built up great people skills.

I also trained all new staff coming into the company, and left the position having trained up a strong team within the restaurant.

Education

A BTEC National Diploma in Photography

A Venture Diploma in Photography

A Venture qualification in Digital and Advanced Digital Design

A Key skills level 3 in Information Technology

10 GCSE's at grade B and above. These include:

A in English Language

B in Maths

Reference

Mark Garrett

Venture Studio Owner