Carol Keiter | curriculum vitae | portfolio

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Carol Keiter

Providence, Rhode Island

(720) 243-2953

carolkeiter@gmail.com
nomadbeatz@graffiti.net

 

writing | translation | exec & admin asst. | experiential eco education

Education

San Francisco State University Downtown Extension, San Francisco, CA	Multimedia Studies Program
George Washington University, Washington D.C.	Cultural Anthropology
Penn State University, State College, PA	Liberal Arts

 

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…work that is play that is work…

 

¡ Prolific writer two blogs

http://digesthis.wordpress.com/ and https://carolkeiter.wordpress.com/ since 2009

                culinary podcast https://deliciousmedicinalfood.wordpress.com

author website: https://spinonmatter.wordpress.com/2019/08/12/a-seahorse-tale-a-spin-on-the-matter-of-motion/  !

¡ Multilingual – conversational French, German & Spanish !

¡ Windows & Mac computer competency: Word, Excel, Pagemaker, PowerPoint, Outlook, QuarkXPress, Fireworks, Adobe Photoshop; some Macromedia Dreamweaver & Director, Painter, and Illustrator, Flash, basic HTML … type 65 wpm !

¡ Accomplished portrait illustrator and landscape painter and computer digital artist a parcel of my portfolio  !

¡ Currently researching, writing and illustrating young adult educational eBook

“A Seahorse Tale – A Spin on the Matter of Motion” 

art & science https://carolkeiter.wordpress.com/2013/05/23/educational-ebook-trailer-a-seahorse-tale-a-spin-on-the-matter-of-motion/ 

eBook trailer: http://spinonmatter.carbonmade.com !

Thumbnails of eBook via Carbonmade:
A Seahorse Tale – A Spin on the Matter of Motion

¡ Musical notation literacy and instrument competency: voice, piano, bass guitar, percussion – composing digitally with Propellerhead ‘Reason’, ‘Logic’ & Ableton ‘Live’ – myspace/nomadbeatz! reverbnation.com/nomadbeatz & soundcloud.com/more_nomadbeatz !

! Consistently use Canon digital camera and MacBook Pro for writing, drawing, ‘laptop activism’, animation, photo retouching and music composition & production dot-an-italian-photo-exhibition-in-berlin
| hitchabout-budapestt | hitchabout-prague | hitchabout-paris !

¡ Lived in Montpellier, France summer 2017, Berlin, Germany ’13 to ’14, ’06 to ’12 as well as ’95 to ’97 | Barcelona, Spain ’05 as well as earlier brief periods in France; studying cultures and languages. !

¡ Attended a two week educational conference coinciding with the COP21 Paris Climate Conference, December 2016 http://www.placetob.org/en/ ~ an intensive learning with 600 participants representing 40 countries, all dedicated to learning about environmental, ecological and social programs aimed towards educating the public worldwide regarding how to help themselves towards resourcing sustainable & renewable energy and transportation. All participating shared their success stories and ways to work within their own communities to live a more healthy and ecologically sound existence. !

Work Experience

substitute teacher with a variety of subjects throughout the Santa Fe Public School system in NM (K through 12)
September 2016 to May 2017

Adult ski instructor at SkiSantafe throughout the ski season.
Dec. 2016 until Spring of 2017

writing business English in finance for client in Hamburg while residing in Berlin, Germany.
September 2010 to June 2012

Artists’ Certificate – permission to earn money through music composition and performance Fiktionsbescheinigung
Berlin, Germany; valid June through November
2009

Private English instruction and proofing/correction of papers englischtutor4u@yahoo.de
in Berlin, Germany.
2005 to 2011

Applying design & writing skills towards work with classictic.com while residing in Berlin, Germany.
Sept.’06 to Jan.’07

Affinity for music, computer & web skills involved work with mediaunbound.com
as a Music Analyst in Berlin
Oct.’05 to Jan.’06

Creating brochures in Pagemaker, through scanning and retouching photos in Photoshop for a Real Estate Brokerage Firm in Santa Fe, New Mexico through a contracted temporary position.
Town & Ranch
May to June 2004

Ski instruction at Santa Fe Ski Basin in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Winter 2004

Certified New York City Real Estate Salesperson license, after working as an Office Manager sponsored by Real Renters, LTD
June 2002

Executive assistant to the President of an international and domestic nurse placement firm; and subsequent Placement Specialist for
Travel Nurse International
April 2001 to January 2002

• Years of contract work in San Francisco, primarily in administrative & executive assistant positions; highlighting a few:

 

† Administrative work with the New San Francisco Examiner
October 2000

† Marketing Manager/Customer Communications position involving meeting & conference coordination, updating databases, supporting sales people, processing purchase orders and creating slideshows for Tesseract Corporation Oct.’99 to Jan.’00

† Slideshow production using Powerpoint; formatting proposals in Pagemaker, under strict time deadlines for this architectural firm NBBJ
March to June 1999

† Executive Assistant; correspondence and coordination of execs’ volatile schedule using Word, Outlook…slideshow presentations with Powerpoint at
Charles Schwab & Co., Inc.
January to February 1999

† PowerPoint Presentation Specialist for Landor Associates
July 1998

† Graphics; editing& formatting reports, scanning & retouching engineering illustrations at Degenkolb Engineers
March to December 1998

† Temp to Perm: Office Manager coordinating equipment rentals and camera operators for shoots, general reception and clerical duties for First Camera
November 1994 to June 1995

† Project Administrator for a systems management study involving training on a sophisticated time tracking software and a great deal of teamwork cooperation and communication between consultants and staff. at PG&E
July to November 1994

† Administrative Assistant creating spreadsheets in Excel, designing documents in Pagemaker and transmitting information across platforms at Bank of America
March to June 1994

† Spanish Language skills applied to the translation of a document Business Design Associates
February 1993

† Quality Control Technologist Assistant to reformat biotechnical reports at Genentech
March 1993

† Ski Instruction and workshop coordination Taos Ski Valley Taos, New Mexico
1987 to 1991