Education & Experience

Shasta High School

• Negotiated a donation of software to the video art department from Adobe.
• Taught video editing and compositing using Premiere, After Effects, and iMovie.
• With a team of three, produced the daily morning video bulletin for two years.
• Under the supervision of Mr. Ed Howland, created a brand new digital art section of Shasta's AP and Humanities Art programs.
• Worked with AP Art students in preparing their portfolios, both digital and traditional.

T.A. Schmidt Photography

• Basic senior portrait retouching, family portrait retouching, business shots.
• Shadow and highlight removal, head and eye swaps, background swaps, beard removal, tattoo and sunburn removal.
• Advanced RGB color correction for web and print.

• Wrote training manuals for image processing and computer maintenance workflows.
• Set up a studio-wide network; responsible for its maintenance.
• Advanced Macintosh hardware and software troubleshooting and repair.

Photoshop Tutoring

• Painting using a Wacom tablet.
• Modification of scanned prints/paintings.
• Basic color correction for print.