Devin J Traineau
Associate Photo Editor, Travel Leisure Magazine @Dotdash Meredith
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WORK HISTORY
Associate Photo Editor, Travel Leisure Magazine @Dotdash Meredith
New York, NY, US
Produced portrait, lifestyle, and still-life shoots domestically and internationally. Discovered international and diverse domestic photographers. Interfaced with prop stylists, groomers, and tailors. Executed photo research to surpass needs by exploring a variety of sources, including stock agencies, photographers, story subjects, news feeds, and social media.• Monitored photo shoots in company studios, resulting in published full-page photos for FOB Market Pages.• Managed Front-of-Book (FOB) monthly published section(s) photography, including comprehensive photo research, maintaining budgets, billing paperwork, contracts, movement of files to Elvis/Production, maximized research of subscription photography libraries to reduce expenses by 20%.• Advocated for diversity and researched photos that resonated and represented diverse readership in published articles.• Supervised team member, coordinating extensive photo research to complete “A List” 15-page yearly feature 2 days beforeholiday deadline.• Led photo research for 35-page “World’s Best” issues, ensuring photos of 90 1st-place winners were published yearly; simultaneously researched additional 90 winners for the magazines’ web version of “World Best”, launched yearly.• Created organized asset folders on the digital asset management (DAM) and delivered tighter edited contact sheets for review to the story editors and Art Department, reducing time spent in review meetings by streamlining and establishing a new process.• Conducted administrative duties, including licensing, permissions, quality checks for scans, tagged photos for Elvis, assembled credit-caption sheets for Copy, Research, and story editors; gathered banking and tax documents to create new vendors in company supplier database, distribution of contracts, schedules, invoices, updated lineups for weekly staff meetings, studio rentals, and photoshoot sample returns.
EDUCATION
Fashion Institute of Technology
Advertising & Communication
SUNY Empire State College
Associate of Arts (AA)
SKILLS
ABOUT DEVIN J TRAINEAU
Accomplished photo editor with published work in over 300 print, digital editions…
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