Creative Professional
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http://www.fredetteprophoto.com
Tampa, FL 33625
Michael Fredette
creative Professional
Profile
As a career long creative professional, Michael has worked in many different phases of the photography and graphic arts industries. In both team settings and on individual assignments, an eye for detail, creative thinking and project perfection is what he always strives for.
Work Experience
Marketing Assistant, Hercules Sealing Products, Clearwater, FL - 10/2019-4/2020 Design and edit company marketing material including product catalogs, calendars and visual graphics for social media using Adobe InDesign and Photoshop; provide quality corporate professional photography and video using digital cameras, Adobe Premiere and Adobe After Effects.
Product Photographer, Hit Promotional Products, Seminole, FL - 11/2018-2/2019 Established and created in-house photo studio; photographed and retouched products for catalog, print and web, using studio lighting, digital cameras, qDSLR Dashboard and Adobe Photoshop. Prepress Digital Graphic Artist, Modern Mail and Print Solutions, Clearwater, FL - 3/2018-8/2018 Designed creative graphic artwork for customers; preflighed customer files to ensure quality for printing using Adobe InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Acrobat, Pitstop, Microsoft, Fusion Pro. Set up files for imposition using Kodak Preps. Corporate Photographer / Prepress Specialist, Publix Super Markets, Lakeland,FL - 11/2000-3/2017 Improved Publix’s color image reproduction in print by ensuring quality pre-press image scanning, color correcting and editing photos. Cataloged images into digital asset management system for use in Marketing, Advertising and Creative; Prepared, designed and preflighted Adobe InDesign files for projects to output to print, web and social media; quality check all color proofs and upload files via FTP to printer. Ensured quality output while operating prepress equipment such as wide format printers, imagesetters, platemakers, laser printers. Promoted to in-house corporate professional photographer. Normal photo assignments included: Photographing retail products for weekly ads under tight deadlines; executing creative custom studio photo shoots with art directors, producers, graphic designers, models and food stylists; photographing retail, support, distribution and industrial operations; on location associate and store manager portraits; create executive corporate portraits for internal and external use; photographing on location special events, such as conferences, award banquets, store openings and charity events for print, web and social media; Quality photography on several top level projects included:
• Publix weekly ad: Photography, color correction & retouching of product images for print and web.
• Publix Direct: South Florida studio photography of retail products for pilot home delivery program.
• On-Line Product catalog: Senior photographer on creative team of art director & food stylist; Color correction/ retouching product images for website. Trained photographers and retouchers, open/close studio.
• Online Easy Ordering Cake and Cookie Cake Configurator: Precision photography and photo retouching for all digital versions of configurator images and details in a variety of colors to IT and Bakery teams to create custom cakes online. Project dramatically increased Bakery sales by over $1 million for 1200 stores. http://www.publix.com/product-catalog/productlisting?ch=18.4.1.1.&page=1&oeo=true http://www.publix.com/all-products
Prepress Specialist, Roberts Printing, Clearwater, FL - 6/1994-11/2000 Scanned film and transparencies for page layout. Color corrected / retouched images in Adobe Photoshop. Ensured quality control by checking color proofs. Output separation film for printing plates from imagesetter. Education
Certificate in Crime Scene Technology - St. Petersburg College, Allstate Center, St. Petersburg, FL Associate in Science, Professional Photography - Daytona State College, Daytona Beach, FL Diploma in Commercial Photography - St. Petersburg Vocational - Technical Institute, St. Petersburg, FL Skills
Digital photography, Capture One, Adobe Photoshop, Camera Raw, color correction/reproduction, Adobe InDesign, Illustrator, Bridge, Lightroom, Acrobat, PitStop, Microsoft Word, Publisher, Excel, Video, Digital Asset Management.
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