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Mitchell Ortega

Phoenix,AZ

Summary

Lead Photographer at Dorian Studio with strong leadership and communication skills. Specializes in photography and photo editing, consistently producing high-quality images. Demonstrates effective management of multiple priorities, ensuring smooth operations and high client satisfaction in fast-paced settings.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience

Work History

Lead Photographer

Dorian Studio
Phoenix, AZ
08.2022 - Current
  • Guarantee that photos are taken with the proper lighting, setup, and posing.
  • Onsite lead to ensure staff arrives on time and working effectively and efficiently during each shoot.
  • Ensure quality photos are being taken, along with excellent customer service.
  • Responsible for transporting all photography equipment to and from schools ensuring equipment is handled and stored properly.
  • Responsible for ensuring all images are backed up and correctly loaded onto the internal software (capture post) and into the studios back up drive to ensure correct ordering.
  • Check in with school administration, address any questions or concerns, review schedule and set up location and provide my contact information as an onsite point of contact.
  • Continually verify on-site photography staff is properly handling equipment.
  • Train new hires on preferred method of setup, breakdown, order submission and correct on-site communication with the school administration.
  • Provide a safe a friendly environment to allow subjects to relax to ensure a wonderful smile in their individual, class group and/or sport photos.
  • Pose and guide subjects to ensure a quality photo is captured to meet standards.
  • Track the required timeline provided to capture over 200 photographs per day while maintaining a fun, relaxed yet professional atmosphere.
  • Post shoot, organize all images and orders correctly for requirements to submit to the lab for processing.
  • Obtained Arizona fingerprint clearance card to work on school sites.
  • Portfolio available upon request

Server/Supervisor

Dillon's KC BBQ
Litchfield Park, AZ
11.2016 - 05.2022
  • Assist management and coworkers to identify bottlenecks and correct to ensure efficient flow within the restaurant.
  • Correctly communicate with customers to ensure suggestions and questions were answered clearly and promptly.
  • Ensure customer orders were submitted to kitchen correctly.
  • Complete final inspection of each order prior to delivering to ensure accuracy, presentation, and correct temperature.
  • Ensure quality customer service was delivered at each interaction between customer and myself.
  • Maintain continual efficient flow of orders from waiters to the kitchen.
  • Inspect the premises according to quality and sanitation standards and assist in cleaning.
  • Communicate important information between the kitchen and customer to identify life threatening food allergies and/or concerns.
  • Assist coworkers as needed on other tasks to support a teamwork environment.
  • Maintain appropriate stock levels of glassware, silverware, and dishware.
  • Clean, sanitize, and reset tables after each guest.
  • Point of contact for customer issues and concerns as needed.

Education

High School Diploma -

Willow Canyon High School

Associates in Arts -

Estrella Mountain Community College

Skills

  • Leadership
  • Photography
  • Photo editing
  • Communication skills
  • Problem management
  • Microsoft Word
  • Customer support
  • Office administration
  • Extremely detail-oriented, highly efficient, and effective at managing multiple priorities
  • Time management
  • Computer skills
  • Customer service
  • Adobe Lightroom
  • Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
  • Conflict management
  • Team management

Timeline

Lead Photographer

Dorian Studio
08.2022 - Current

Server/Supervisor

Dillon's KC BBQ
11.2016 - 05.2022

High School Diploma -

Willow Canyon High School

Associates in Arts -

Estrella Mountain Community College

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