Kristen Romanelli — kristen.romanelli@gmail.com

Career Objective

Creative interactive web & media professional seeking to create educational, innovative online content and multimedia.
Please contact me for links to examples of my video work.

Professional Profile

  • Seven years of professional media, digital media, video, and online content experience
  • Comfortable either collaborating with a team or working independently

  • Skilled with several programs on both Mac and PC-based platforms
  • Closely follows technology changes & trends
  • Ambitious, quick learner

Work Experience

Interactive Producer

Vantage Deluxe World Travel; Boston, MA

September 2010 – present

  • Designs, codes, & implements daily email campaigns; Email revenue increased 159%
  • Project managing Vantage’s first video initiative
  • Manages and traffics email and web projects; heavy project schedule maintenance
  • Maintains website and content for http://www.vantagetravel.com
  • Assists with Vantage’s social media and blog initiative (Examples of blog entries may be viewed here.)

Web Editor

Watcher Junior; Watertown, MA

September 2009 – present

  • Edits web content and codes http://www.watcherjunior.tv using HTML and CSS
  • Successfully applied SEO to WJ's website and spiked site readership
  • Heightened visibility by bringing WJ into the Web 2.0/social media sphere
  • Helped revive dormant web journal

Editor/Media Specialist

Liberty Mutual; Boston, MA

October 2005 – August 2010

  • Encoded and managed digital media that is streamed to external and internal audiences
  • Edited a wide range of corporate programming; assisted the overseeing of the postproduction process
  • Facilitated Liberty's transition from analog to HD media programming

Associate Editor

Laureate Education; Baltimore, MD

April 2004 – May 2005

  • Coordinated and edited educational supplement videos and multimedia for higher education courses ranging from the Ed.D. program to Educational Leadership to Math and Literacy programs
  • Maintained postproduction schedules and tight editing timelines for our bi-coastal office
  • Managed and delegated assignments to department assistants

Copy Editor

Learning Connection; Providence, RI

June 2002 – April 2004

  • Proofread and edited catalogue copy before printing; wrote headlines and descriptions for courses

Technical Experience

Computer Software: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Flash, Adobe Dreamweaver, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Encore DVD, Digital Rapids Stream Z Pro, Media Cleaner, Sorenson Squeeze, Compressor, Quark XPress, Microsoft PowerPoint

Video Editing: Final Cut Studio, Avid Media Composer, Adobe Premiere, Media 100, and Quantel Editbox

Education

B.A. English/Writing

Fairfield University; Fairfield, CT

May 2003

  • Minor in Film, Television and New Media
  • Vice-President and Executive Producer of student-run television station
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