Professional:

French Woods Festival of the Perfoming ArtsFrench Woods Festival of the Performing Arts Summer Camp

 

Personal:

bethandmichael.net
Beth and Michael.net

 

Networking:

 

 

Michael's linkedin profile

 

michael knauf's flicker photostream

Resumé

Summary

Branding and identity, design, education, photography, website management, team building

Specialties:
Logo and Identity design, Graphic Design, Packaging, Trade Show Booths and Displays, Digital Photocompositing and Retouching, Photography, Prepress and Printing Management, Web Design and Development, Html/CSS, Javascript, PHP, MySQL, Flash, Video, Training and Education

Experience

Camp Director at French Woods Festival
2004 – Present
Managing web presence, marketing and PR for a Performing Arts Summer Camp / Directing the Art Department durning the summer - hiring and recruiting staff, training and mentoring staff, managing technology and supplies, teaching.


Webmaster at Niles Audio Corporation

2002 – 2004
Designed and Managed website for sales, marketing, and tech support. Art directed photo shoots for marketing materials, created photo composites of prototype models, interfaced with sales, tech support, management and marketing teams.

Director of Creative Services at From2.com
2000 - 2001
Built design and graphics team from one person to full capacity in house agency. Hired staff, specified and ordered equipment, contracted with artists and outside talent and produced multimedia programming including video, flash, website, print materials and trade show displays for B2B internet logistics startup. Delivered professional marketing and advertising materials for a fraction of the cost they had paid an outside firm. Worked with programming group to design software interfaces for web applications, inside Marketing team and outside global public relations firm on all aspects of the companys' brand, public image, promotion and marketing.

Consultant at Maxim Group
1999 - 2000
Placed as Contractor / Consultant to From2.com. Re-designed and built website including all graphics, HMTL and JavaScript code. Worked with outside agency to develop corporate logo and brand. While still a contract employee, began process of building in-house design team. Converted to full time employee of From2 in August 2000.

Webmaster at International Fine Arts College
1996 – 1999
Designed and implemented web/email/dns hardware and software. Sourced servers, router, and firewall hardware and software, and T1 service and microwave links between campus buildings. Designed, implemented and built college website. Assisted in design and maintenance of network connecting 3 buildings, and 250 machines running Irix, Unix, Linux, Mac OS, Win NT/95/98 and Novell. Turned web presence from loss to number 1 income and lead generator, producing sales of over 30 Million dollars per year. Developed and taught graphic design curriculum in web/multimedia specialization. Consistently received perfect scores in both student and peer evaluations.

Manager, Digital Imaging Department at CLM Imaging
1995 - 1996
Ran digital Imaging and output department in large professional color lab. Performed high-end digital photo-retouching and composition for clients such as Lancome, Ralph Lauren, and Disney. Performed maintenance and calibration on Film recorders and imagers, drum scanners, and large format ink jet printers, pc, NT/Alpha, SGI and Macintosh workstations.

Graphic Artist at Arthur Andersen
1994 - 1995
Designed and produced, in house and supervised outside production of printed materials, brochures, proposals and presentations.

Consultant at M.G.Jensen and Associates
1992 - 1995
Design, setup and maintenance of multimedia production systems. Production of Multi-image and 3d slide shows, photo retouching print and web layout, design and production, video post-production and special effects.

Manager, Computer Graphics at Associated Photo
1991 - 1994
Managed production department of large professional color lab. Handled workflow and production issues including direct contact with clients. Supervised and hired employees soured equipment including high-end film recorders, workstations, and drum scanners.

Program Director at Miami Museum of Science
1986 – 1990
Program director of interactive floor shows and demonstrations of scientific principals and exhibits. Wrote, directed and produced presentations, trainde and managed staff

Education

University of Miami
BA, English
2000