Noel Ortega: FREELANCE
Noel Ortega
FREELANCE
United States
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FREELANCE | 01/2015 - Current
DAKINE SNOW
• Art Directed, Photographed, Post-production, and styled Holiday-2020 & 2021, Delivered
product image assets that were used across the company for web, social, and look book.
GRIZZLY GRIP TAPE
• Art Directed, Photographed, Post-production, and styled Fall-2019. Delivered product
image assets that were used across the company for web, social, and look book.
SORELLA BOUTIQUE
• Art Directed, Photographed and Launched numerous campaigns and product launches
ranging from shoes, makeup, jewelry, and clothing.
LA KINGS
• Art Directed, Photographed and styled all game-worn gear from skates, pads, jerseys,
sticks, gloves for web holiday auction.
Zumiez
Store Manager | 01/2017 - Current
• Currently manage to maximize personal & store results through selling, maintaining & covering zones for 1 of the 3 premier doors in the United States.
• PEOPLE DEVELOPMENT: Build a promotable team by utilizing Zumiez tools & programs
to hire, train & evaluate my people.
• SALES: Maintain personal sales results while running the sales floor & training your team
to perform.
• PAYROLL: Write schedules based on allotted hours that maximize sales results based on
team and individual strengths.
• INVENTORY: Minimize loss through team awareness, motivation, customer service & managing operations.
• Some of my proudest accomplishments include: having the privilege of promoting 5
teammates to higher positions, qualifying for Zumiez 100K in my first 6months of working for the company, achieving top ten in 2020 coming in #8 salesperson in the entire
company.
Zumiez
Principal Photographer | 01/2017 - 11/2018
Photographed all flat lays, product layouts, web banners, E-mails, print campaigns, social
media content, and look books.
• Managed inventory library for all incoming and outgoing products.
• Worked with the art director and graphic designers to optimize industry leading creativity.
• Managed, curated, edited and re-touched all content.
• Listened to consumer feedback and implemented new workflows to the e-commerce
website that led to a premium, user friendly experience.
• Set expectations and met deadlines by delivering creative briefs and communicating with team daily.
• Supported the marketing team by planning and executing the art direction of new
collaborations, identifying event/activation opportunities and providing all necessary
content.
Ethika Inc
Principal Photographer | 05/2017 - 03/2018
Managed photo studio and was responsible for all equipment ranging from photography,
lighting, and set.
• Photographed was responsible for all content in various departments including Web,
Social, Marketing, and Ethika lifestyle. All while delivering in a timely manner by planning,
communicating, executing, and measuring work with photo team members throughout the entire photography process, from creative brief, post-production, delivery, to archiving.
• Managed and distributed projects to photo editors providing accurate art direction and due
dates, then following up with photo editors on a regular basis to provide positives and opportunities with work in progress. Tracking their work, day-to-day ensuring deadlines
and expectations were met.
• Sourced and hired models, identified relevant locations, managed inventory/merchandise,
and styled all models in order to bring each campaign to life
WORK EXPERIENCE (cont.)