PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Business professional with exceptional problem solving, project
management, and research skills
Extensive technical ability: computers, applications, communications,
and graphics
Documented talent for producing web sites, annual reports, advertising,
sales promotions, and marketing
Persuasive interpersonal skills, energetic, confident, persistent, and
principled
Business Communications Experience
Twenty-eight years – Advertising - Marketing–
Negotiation - Photography Steve Altman Communications
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Corporate/advertising photographer, specializing in
location photography; people, portraits, products, special effects, and
architecture.
u Produced over 60 annual reports, hundreds
of feasibility brochures, collateral advertising, billboards, slide shows,
multi-media presentations, portraits, employee newsletters, book covers, and public
relations pieces
u Defined campaign objectives, developed budgets,
established timetables
u Wrote and produced copy, developed illustration
concepts
u Created photographs: researched props, models,
and locations and directed post production
u Negotiated contracts, purchased space, evaluated
responses
u Produced series of direct mail campaigns linked
to telephone marketing
u Generated 6% response with direct mail
campaign
u Designed telephone campaign to promote potential
client to buyers achieved consistent 5% success
u Organized seminars and workshops to promote
products and services
u Established fees, estimated costs, reviewed
terms
u Presented contracts for review and execution
Project Management
Two years - International Project Management Overseas Private Investment Corp
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Managed
nine-country,
Caribbean project to encourage the replacement of diminishing US government gifts with
capital infusion by private investors
u Was responsible
for all logistics, transportation, budget management, client contact, information
gathering, photographic content, and photography post production
u Completed project reports by
deadline, within budget allocated; resulted in production of annual report distributed
worldwide by US government to businesses in every sector of the economy
u Demonstrated high degree of success by US
government extension of contract for second year
Two years - Multi-media Consulting Time–Life Learning
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Collaborated in the
research, writing, production, and presentation of a two-day course on photography
u Developed nine hours of instruction in eight
subject modules
u Created six-projector multi-media slide and
digital sound presentation with cutting edge computer controlled technology
u Presented the workshops successfully to
universities for two years throughout eastern and central United States
Computer Related Experience
June 99 to Present – Consulting Steve Altman
Communications
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Designed award winning
web sites for retail business
u Analyzed business requirements, designed,
authored and published e-commerce web sites
u Evaluated and updated client content
based on consumer response
u Scanned, cropped, sized, color corrected, and
retouched images with PhotoShop for web and print output
u Created illustrations for print and web with
PhotoShop
March 99 to June 99 - Computer Support Contract Consultant
Chubb Computer Services
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Provided
technical
support for worldwide internal client base of over 300,000 employees
u Provided troubleshooting support for proprietary
software for IBM mainframes, AS/400, PC server and workstations engaged in data capture
and reporting worldwide
u Monitored and diagnosed the status of
remote routers, controllers, terminals and printers attached to mainframe
u Monitored and diagnosed the status of
remote file, print, and web servers
u Supported in house user e-mail and web access
through TCP/IP HTTP FTP communication protocols
Computer Consulting Steve Altman Communications
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Utilizing Symantec’s
relational data base Q&A4.0 and Q&A WINDOWS, designed and implemented
inter-linking databases for billing, sales contracts, inventory and marketing. Developed
specialized help screens to support application.
u Analyzed business systems and processes and
developed customized system architecture requirements for enterprise application
u Gathered systems requirements; obtained and
installed hardware; installed and configured O/S, application and communication software;
provided extensive user training and system support
u Tracked and analyzed impact of enterprise
installation: demonstrated substantial savings in printing, accounting, and marketing
costs, 5% business increase from improved marketing ability
TECHNICAL SUMMARY
Operating Systems:
Novell Netware 4.11
Windows NT 4. 0
Windows 98
Windows 95
Windows 3.11
DOS6.2
DOS3.2
Communications:
TCP/IP protocol
HTTP protocol
FTP protocol
Commworks
Applications:
Adobe Photoshop
MS-Word
MS-Excel
MS-PowerPoint
MS-Outlook
Act For Windows
Ontime
Relational Databases:
Q&A 4.0
Q&A Windows
Dbase III Plus
MS-Access
Internet Web Publishing:
Microsoft Frontpage98
Netscape Composer
Microsoft FrontPage Express
HTML
Internet Web Browsers:
Netscape Communicator
Microsoft Internet Explorer
Hardware:
IBM compatible PC: installing, configuring, networking, repairing and
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Self-employed, Twenty-eight years, owner of Steve Altman Communications
Director, Two years, New Jersey Chapter of International Association of
Business Communicators (IABC)
Columnist, Two years, FOCUS, New Jersey IABC Newsletter: Columns
on improving corporate publications, annual reports, working with photographers, corporate
photography, copyright and related legal issues
Speaker, IABC: Workshops and speaking engagements for IABC in New York,
New Jersey, Washington, DC
Vice president, One year, American Society of Magazine Photographers
(ASMP) New York Chapter
Presenter, Two years six months, Time-Life Learning Photography Workshops:
"Making the Most of Your Camera"
Teacher, Four years six months, Dallas County Community College,
Eastfield College: Beginning & Advanced Photography
MILITARY SERVICE
US Army Exhibit Unit, Photographer, US Army Certificate of
Achievement, Honorable discharge.
For 22 months, served in a special 100 person organization, the US Army Exhibit Unit, a
staff arm of the Army Office of the Chief of Information. During the first nineteen months
of service, received four promotions, achieving rank of Sp4
EDUCATION
The Chubb Institute , Parsippany, NJ, Diploma, Computer Technical Support,
Honors Qualified / GPA 96.38
Fairleigh Dickinson University, Madison, NJ, Paralegal Studies Program. Honors.
The American University, Washington, DC, Graduate work, Journalism
The American University, Washington, DC, B.A. Government and Public
Administration
HONOR SOCIETY AND AWARDS
Adelphia Society, The American University
IABC Silver Inkwell Award - Color Photography
United Way - The Fed, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Best Photo Presentation - United Way of National Capital Area