Christopher Moore

CHRISTOPHER MOORE 12 Balfour Street • Dulwich Hill NSW- •-linkedin.com/in/christopher-moore11 D ESIGN C REATIVE / I MAGE R ETOUCHER Customer centric, collaborative, accountable and boldly creative. Achieved success in a broad range of visual creative work within Australia’s leading media company, News Corp. 10 years working on the country’s top titles as a retoucher, creative and photographer for NewsLifeMedia, NewsLocal, news.com.au, Medium Rare Content Agency and various additional notable brands as a freelancer. Intuitively adapt to new technology and innovative processes while ensuring quality and customer focus remain key. — AREAS OF EMPHASIS — • • • • • Colour correction, enhancement Image manipulation, etching Print quality control, profiling Web imaging and animation Soft-proofing, screen calibration • • • • • Photography, scanning, archiving Wacom Intuos graphics tablet user Adobe Photoshop expert Adobe Creative Suite proficiency Content Station & Methode proficient P ROFESSIONAL E XPERIENCE IMAGING OPERATOR, 09/2012 - 11/2017 NEWS CORP - PREMEDIA I ensured News Corp’s publications were visually appealing, always met editors’ and designers’ expectations, were consistent with the brand across both print and web, and overall - excellent.  Worked on nearly all of News Corp’s publications across national, regional and metro titles as an image retoucher reaching millions of Australians every week.  Collaborated with designers and artists extensively, worked on retouching layouts/covers in person or via soft proofing & printed markups. Communication made it happen.  Colour corrected/enhanced images, ensured correct print profiles were applied, etched, manipulated portions to fit copy across primarily food, fashion and travel titles.  Worked with News Corp’s Creative team to develop advertising layouts, POS, outdoor, press, in house promotions, calendars, inserts etc.  Partnered with Medium Rare Content Agency to produce and enhance their magazine titles including Qantas, Coles and Foxtel. Used Content Station software to send and receive images and instructions and access their InDesign files directly.  Regulary accessed and updated live InDesign files to perform enhancements. Troubleshooted layer, perspective, framing and link issues.  Worked in Methode to access and colour correct, enhance and etch all newsprint images (Daily Telegraph, The Australian, and all local/regional titles). C HRISTOPHER M OORE • PAGE 2 IMAGING OPERATOR, 04/2008 - 09/2012 NEWS CORP - NEWSLOCAL Worked primarily on the 23 titles covering suburban Sydney, enhancing all print images including former MX. I edited all videos covering local news and maintained the Youtube page.  Based at PicDesk in Editorial, I retouched & colour corrected images published across NewsLocal.  Enhanced front pages, wrap covers, back pages and feature images published each day across Sydney and the Central Coast.  Collaborated closely with entire editorial team to ensure all publication deadlines were met.  Worked daily with News Limited’s nationally utilized pictorial content management systems.  Routinely sourced acceptable images from content sites for sub-editors.  Acted as a conduit between the Daily Telegraph’s photo desk and individual mastheads.  Set up and maintained the company’s Youtube channels & Vimeo account, edited and uploaded the majority of video content accompanying online news stories.  Prepared and uploaded photo galleries for online news, sports and entertainment articles.  Covered sporting & entertainment events when required as a photographer or videographer. PRESS/OUTDOOR ADVERTISING MANAGER, 08/2003 to 04/2008 EBIQUITY (FORMERLY XTREME INFORMATION) Managed the Press & Outdoor department, monitored media and tracked creative ad campaigns.  Managed AUS, NZ & Southeast Asian print & outdoor ad monitoring (NSW & VIC).  Tracked ad campaigns for agencies, maintained client web portfolios, and sent alerts.  Sourced and archived all publications monitored (250+ titles).  Scanned 1000’s of ads in Photoshop, uploaded to our database with metadata.  Photographed numerous ads across Sydney, cropped in Photoshop and uploaded.  Set quotas, standards and met deadlines. STUDIO CAMERA OPERATOR (FREELANCE), 10/2005 to 08/2007 Sky Racing  Studio Camera Operator on shows such as Racing Retro, In the Gig and The Catching Pen.  Set up and dismantled sets, and operated autocue. STUDIO CAMERA OPERATOR (FREELANCE), 07/2003 to 10/2005 SBS Television  Studio Camera Operator on World News Australia, The World Game, SBS Sport, & Dateline.  Set up and dismantled sets, and operated autocue. C HRISTOPHER M OORE • PAGE 3 E DUCATIONAL B ACKGROUND Bachelor of Arts - Photojournalism & TV Production, Minor in Writing, 2001 Western Kentucky University – Bowling Green, Kentucky USA T ECHNICAL P ROFICIENCY Environments: Mac OS, Windows Tools: Microsoft Office; Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Premiere, Bridge, Lightroom, Acrobat); Wacom Intuos Pro graphics tablets; Corel Painter 2018; ZBrush R EFERENCE Michael Sykes Imaging Manager – News Corp Mobile:- Work:- linkedin.com/in/michael-sykes-/ Additional available upon request