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    Charles Kemper
    (707) 765-6242
    BACKGROUND
    Twenty years of experience in marketing, publishing, communications creating advertising photography for national clients, and more recently, writing and designing graphics plus designing Web pages.
    SKILLS
    Work Skills
    • Excellent writing, editing, and communication skills
    • Highly developed graphic skills and sensibilities
    • Expertise in analyzing product strengths and client needs
    • Proven ability to work with team to achieve project goals
    • Solid research skills
    • Analyze and solve problems
    • Sharply honed interpersonal skills
    • Quick learner, translate knowledge into productivity
    Computer Skills
    • Productive on Macintosh & PC (Windows 3.1, 95 & NT)
    Macintosh
    • Eudora email
    • FileMaker 2.1 & Pro 3.0
    • Fetch 3.0.3
    • GifBuilder
    • Illustrator 6.0
    • Lotus ccMail
    • MS Excel 5
    • MS Internet Explorer 4.0
    • MS Power Point 4.0
    • MS Word 5 & 6
    • Netscape Navigator Gold 3.0
    • Photoshop 4.0
    • StuffIt
    • Word Perfect
    PC
    • BaaN
    • Eudora email
    • Lotus ccMail
    • MackForms
    • MapEdit
    • MS Access
    • MS Excel 5 & 97
    • MS Internet Explorer 4.0
    • MS Power Point 4.0
    • MS Word 6 & 7
    • MS Office 95 & 97 Suites
    • Netscape Navigator Gold 3.0
    • WinZip & Ws_ftp
    • Word Perfect
    • Web Publishing with HTML 3.2
    • Design Graphics for the Web
    • Rapidly utilize new programs effectively
    • Adeptly convey computer know-how to others
    PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
    Advanced Fibre Communications, a telecommunications equipment manufacturer
    3/97-9/97
    • Short term assignment assisting accounting department's transition to BaaN software and NT4 operating system. Reviewed and trouble shot company's 1998 budget.
    Waite Group Press, Corte Madera, an imprint of Macmillan Computer Publishing
    3/97-9/97
    • Analyzed WGP's upcoming computer book releases. Wrote the New Book Information sheets that introduced the books to Macmillan's sales force. Wrote cover copy for the books as well as copy for "backmatter" and catalogues.
    • Tracked and oversaw corrections to errata on the eZone, Waite Group's Web-based interactive learning center. Intensively tested new eZone site with four browsers over two platforms.
    Charles Kemper Photography, San Francisco & New York City
    Owned and operated for 20 years in S.F. and N.Y.C. Executed studio photography for Advertising Agencies and their clients. Transformed clients' creative ideas into images that sold their products and services. This required:
    • Painstaking attention to detail
    • Ability to manage time, people, and resources to meet strict deadlines
    • Expertise at Marketing and Promotion
    Partial List from over 120 Clients Includes:
    • A.T.&T.
    • Clorox Co.
    • KQED
    • LSI Logic
    • PacBell
    • P.G.&E.
    • Almaden Vineyards
    • Bectel Group, Inc.
    • Del Monte Foods
    • Freixenet USA
    • NCR Computers
    • Syntex Laboratories
    • Bank of America
    • Coherent Laser
    • Dow Jones & Co.
    • Kimberly Clark Corp.
    • Seagate Technology
    • Teledyne WaterPic
    EDUCATION
    BACHELOR OF SCIENCE
    Major: Communications
    Minor: Mathematics
    		 Brigham Young University
    Computer Classes (4.0 GPA)
    		 Santa Rosa Junior College
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