Karen Cassidy

• Fostered a creative learning environment that encouraged artistic expression and music exploration among students.
• Collaborated with fellow musicians to develop engaging performances for increasing audience participation.
• Enhanced student creativity by incorporating various art themes and techniques into projects.
• Assisted in event planning coordination efforts by promoting events via social media channels, resulting in higher attendance rates at various functions.
• Created digital content for social media, succeeding in driving up the client-base growth.

• Led group rehearsals, strengthening teamwork and collaboration among musicians of varying skill levels.
• Mentored students through music theory, instrument techniques, and performance preparation.
• Coordinated with fellow instructors for successful School of Rock concerts, showcasing students' progress and talents.

Musician, Entertainer, Social-media editor, Graphic designer

• Increased client satisfaction through professionalism, communication, and excellent customer service.
• Analyzed music industry trends and tracked competitor activities to assist in decision-making.
• Established and maintained strong relationships with customers, venue owners, and booking agents.
• Hired and managed talent and musicians, organized rehearsals and performance schedules.
• Developed strong partnerships with a team of musicians for improved collaboration, and creating a dynamic entertainment experience for audiences.

• Implemented lesson plans to meet diverse student needs and learning objectives.

• Designed and implemented diverse fitness programs for various skill levels and age groups.
• Led group classes, ensuring participant engagement and adherence to safety protocols.

• Familiarized students with basic concepts of music, such as notes, tempo, beats, genres, and instrumentation, while incorporating their favorite sing-along songs and encouraging gross motor skills movement for pre-K and special needs children.

• Collaborated with the editorial team at daily news meetings to develop cohesive visual narratives while meeting deadlines.
• Created content-driven page designs and graphics for front-page news, business, and feature sections for the print editions of The Record and The Herald News. Produced concise visual elements, interactive charts, and maps to enhance the digital editions on northernjersey.com.
• Developed engaging illustrations for print and digital media, supporting storytelling and communication objectives.

• Produced page designs, created icons and illustrations for newspaper

• Produced graphics, maps and photo silhouettes for daily tabloid newspaper

Home News Tribune

• Fulfilled project-development needs for a monthly kids' activity page, which consisted of the following duties: generated concepts, wrote instructional steps, organized photo shoots and designed page layout. Illustrated art for Pets and Kid Stuff page. Created maps, graphics, page design for news, business, features, sports and special sections. Contributed to the paper’s overall redesign by revamping style templates and icons.
• Artist I 1997-2003
• Editorial Technician 1996-1997

Asbury Park Press

• Prepress Technician 1995-1996
• Accomplishments: 11/2003 & 12/2004 Employee of the Month