Linda Cangieter\'s resume

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Linda Cangieter
Pro fe s s i o n a l Ex per ien ce
CHILDREN OF PROMISE, NYC, Non-profit services/ New York, NY 2009
Academic Outreach | Mentoring
Offering preventive volunteer services that are specific to the needs of children of prisoners, creating real and lasting social change to break the cycle of
intergenerational incarceration.
• VOLUNTEER MENTORING: Volunteering in a career based mentoring program, which identifies a profession or an industry of interest to 4th -
8th grade students. Mentoring a 5th grade young lady who is interested in medicine. http://www.childrenofpromisenyc.org/
ST. JOSEPH’S COLLEGE NEW YORK, Liberal Arts college/ New York, NY 2007-2009
Production Coordinator | Lab Assistant (part-time consultant)
• PRODUCTION COORDINATOR: Managed the classroom experiments, ensuring that all needed equipment (including computers, software or
hardware) or chemicals are prepped for students.
NBC NEWS, Television network news (division of NBC Universal)/ New York, NY 2005-2007
Traffic Manager | Senior Photo Editor
Managed team in designing all aspects of television graphics projects, including dynamic-show opens, animations, and full-screens & graphics templates.
• TV EXPERIENCE: NBC Nightly News (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032619/), TODAYshow, Sunday TODAY, and Dateline
(http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032600/).
• TRAFFIC MANAGER: 3 key areas of knowledge:
o Area 1 (Delivery Management):
 Daily resource meetings: Developed resource plans by working with discipline leads, ensuring appropriate resources are
in place.
 Guided team on mitigating risks on assignments/projects.
 Proactively identified opportunities to adjust processes for efficiencies.
o Area 2 (Project Management):
 Consistently demonstrated ability to drive projects to completeness (on truncated schedules).
 Managed project schedule and budget.
 Quality Control: In charge of QA’ing (quality assurance) of all projects (re: proofreading & file management).
o Area 3 (Communication):
 Set clear expectations for tasks and deliverables.
 Exhibited strong listening skills and the ability to tactfully communicate position on relevant issues.
• Coordinated meetings between graphics management, broadcast clients and vendors. Manage office administration including vendor
relationships.
• GRAPHICS SPECIALIZATION: 3 key areas of specialization (see details below):
o (Maps | photos | video): Advanced creation of city graphics materials, including but not limited to logos, maps, invitations, video montage, or signs
(utilized Microsoft Excel and Photoshop). Supervise and review the work plan for assigned staff.
o (Archiving Process | Photo Research): Advanced system of archiving images/videos relating to the activities or business dealings of a person,
family, corporation, association, community, or nation. Ability to locate appropriate pictures for a given project within a budget, obtain permissions and
copyright requirements for their use. Commission photographs when needed, and return unneeded items promptly and undamaged. Familiar with all
aspects of photographic reproduction, in order to determine what an image will look like when reproduced (including print and electronic reproduction
process).
• Scheduled all graphics and digital media projects, determining appropriate deadlines.
• INTERACTIVE | ONLINE EXPERIENCE: Communicate with editors to determine optimal photographic online content and photo
opportunities. Created on-brand, compelling visuals for website.
SABBATICAL/ New York, NY 2003-2005
Two-year absence from career, due of the birth of my child.
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, Business & Financial news/ New York, NY 1988-2003
News Supervisor | Senior Photo Editor 1996-2003
Originally hired as an Assistant, but promoted 4 times.
• SUPERVISION EXPERIENCE: Supervised 20 illustrators, chartists, typesetters, map makers, and cartoonists.
• PROJECT MANAGEMENT “PROCESS”: Includes 4 areas of concentration:
o Requirements Gathering
o Staffing Plan
o Quality Control
o Communication Plan
• KEY ACCOMPLISHMENT: List of key accomplishment (see below).

2. o Digital Assets (database): Asked to create a digital asset (database) of all WSJ creative images (i.e. maps, politicians, celebrities,
and physical objects). This 6 month project required me to hire a small team to research & find images, scan, and file. Additionally,
facilitated the developed of keyword capability for the database.
• Communicate with editors to determine optimal photographic online content and photo opportunities. Retouch, crop and optimize images.
Additionally, created on-brand, compelling visuals for website.
• STAFFING: Organize and manage production schedules and work orders for graphics.
• Research photos in the fashion, politics, international politics, beauty, and celebrity fields.
• BUDGET MANAGEMENT: Negotiated and secured photo rights and contracts. Managed photo budget and billing requirements.
Photo Editor 1994-1996
Promoted to News Supervisor | Senior Photo Editor in 1994.
• APPLICATIONS: Utilized FileMaker Pro (http://www.filemakertrial.com/) to print invoices, organize & archive photos, video and multi-media.
• Negotiated and secure photo rights and contracts.
• DESIGN EXPERIENCE: Experience in creating engaging designs for publication.
o Proficiency in Photoshop (for PC and Mac)
o Editorial & Photo research from major photo agencies (e.g. Getty, Associated Press, PhotoResearchers, and Wire Image)
Graphics Editor | Production Editor 1990-1994
Promoted to Photo Editor in 1994.
• INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE: Managed graphics requests from worldwide bureaus. Bureaus included the following: The Asian Wall Street
Journal (http://www.wsj-asia.com/) and The European Wall Street Journal (http://europe.wsj.com/home-page).
• COPY EDITING: Wrote captions for graphics and photos.
• Researched maps, charts, and historic & current financial data (electronically and manually).
• Trafficked graphics to production plants on timely basis.
• DAILY ART SCHEDULE: Managed daily schedule, updating for Newsroom.
News Assistant 1988-1990
Promoted to Graphics Editor | Production Editor in 1990.
• ONLINE MEDIA: Researched maps (from chartist) and other digital files for website, http://www.wsj.com.
• Researched maps, charts, and historic & current financial data (electronically and manually).
• Trafficked graphics to production plants on timely basis.
• Liaison between graphics department and Newsroom with queries and changes.
• FINANCIAL EXPERIENCE: Research Dow Jones Industrial Averages, stocks, bonds, S&P 500 data, in order to create charts and tables.
NBC NEWS, Television network news (division of NBC Universal)/ New York, NY 1986-1988
Graphics Coordinator 1986-1988
Originally hired as Student Intern, but promoted to Graphics Coordinator in 6 months.
• TV PROGRAMS: NBC Nightly News (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032619/), Dateline, TODAYshow, and Weekend Nightly News.
• Organized and managed production schedules and work orders for graphics.
• Communicated with editorial, producers, and directors to facilitate graphics requests.
• Create high-concept and dynamic graphics that were used in television programs (e.g. NBC Nightly News and Weekend Nightly News).
Graphics Intern 1988-1990
Promoted to Graphics Coordinator in 6 months.
• Production and maintenance of digital images for web (scanning, cropping, archiving, color correcting).
• Scheduled and gathered visual content, and visual-content management.
• Helped editorial producers meet content goals by generating appealing graphics and layouts.
E d u c a ti o n
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY/ New York, NY 1986
Bachelor of Arts in Communications
( A dd it io n a l Ed u c at io n )
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY/ New York, NY 2008
Certificate in Journalism
(Successfully completed the 4 required courses and one 10-session elective from the Journalism section).
http://www.scps.nyu.edu/
M e m b er s h i p s
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BLACK JOURNALISTS
http://www.nabj.org/
UNITY JOURNALIST OF COLOR, INC.
http://www.unityjournalists.org/
(Attended conferences: Washington, D.C. & Chicago, IL).
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