Michael Cline â Resume`
Michael Cline – Resume`
P.O. Box 741, Palm Desert, CA. Phone: 760‐773‐9786 Email: [email protected] Website: clinefoto.com Objective To use my interpersonal, professional photographic, graphic design and management skills and experience in order to benefit and contribute to your organization or company. Interpersonal skills Many years of working with and for people as a commercial photographer (portraits, private parties, conventions, weddings, etc.), newspaper & magazine photographer, graphic arts/special effects and hotel management. Photo/ Computer Skills Proficient in all digital and film (still) camera operations, professional lighting techniques, creative and journalistic/documentary styles and digital and film processing/printing. Also, accomplished digital artist using Photoshop, InDesign, and Corel Paint. I’m presently learning Adobe Illustrator. Managerial Skills Traffic manager for one of the largest graphic arts photo‐reproduction businesses in Los Angeles. Front office manager for Hilton and Holiday Inns and a Laguna Beach, California resort hotel at various times from 1974 to 1989. Chief Photographer and Photo Editor responsible for hiring and training photo interns and establishing photo labs at community newspapers in L.A. County and Orange County, CA. Employment 1995 – 2007 Glassman Photography – working as a professional photographer. Subjects as diverse as portraits of political, media and Hollywood celebrities, special and charity events, conventions, sporting events/tournaments, weddings, products, architecture and aerials. 1985 – 1995 Freelance and Studio Photographer – Photographing members of the Bar Association, AMA and business clubs and organizations across America for Elson‐Alexander Corp. Also, managing a portrait salon in Mission Viejo, CA.
1976 – 1985 News‐photographer, Chief Photographer and Photo Editor for Golden West Publishing Co. a newspaper chain that ultimately comprised 20 + community newspapers in Los Angeles and Orange Counties with a circulation of over 150,000. Beach, CA.
1974 – 1976 Front Office Manager for the Surf ‘N Sand Resort Hotel in Laguna
1970 – 1974 Traffic and Production Manager for Stat House of L.A. Responsible for all artwork and other materials that came in to our facility and for the timeliness and quality of reproduction that went back to the clients. Open, informative communication with all clients who were advertising executives, art directors, design professionals, commercial artists, photographers and marketing executives.
1964 – 1970 U. S. Army
Education Art Center College of Design, Los Angeles, CA. Photography and Graphic Arts Major. Fine Arts BA degree. Saddleback Jr College, Mission Viejo, CA. Fine Arts – AA degree. Extended‐day classes of Fashion Photography at UC Irvine and Photojournalism at UCLA.
