Linda Liepiņa

PERSONAL INFORMATION Name Linda Liepiņa Address Jaunlejnieki, Marupe municipality, Riga, LV-2167, Latvia Telephone - E-mail - Nationality Latvia Date of birth - Department Photographer WORK EXPERIENCE • Dates (from – to) September, 2016 - Present • Name and address of employer Maya shop, 3 Ieriku street 3, Riga, LV-1050, Latvia • Type of business or sector Woman’s clothing store, https://www.facebook.com/MAYAshopLatvia/ • Occupation or position held Photographer Main responsibilities are to organize weekly photo shoots that includes finding location, models, deciding what kind of outfit and jewelry models should wear in order to create a commercial photo shoot. I also am in charge of reviewing the pictures and putting them online. • Main activities and responsibilities • Dates (from – to) • Name and address of employer August, 2015 - Present Tims Mints Cafe, 5 Jana gate, Riga LV-1050, Latvia • Type of business or sector Social café, http://www.barradar.lv/lv/kafejnica/1655-tims-mints • Occupation or position held Photographer Main responsibilities include capturing life music events and the atmosphere. Putting emphasis on musicians and people emotions, which would include dancing, laughing, talking. Have to work in different kind of lighting, if the light is not sufficient enough I use attachable flash (speed light). • Main activities and responsibilities • Dates (from – to) June, 2015 – Present • Name and address of employer 215 Primary school, 10 Usmas Street, Riga, LV-2167 , Latvia • Type of business or sector School • Occupation or position held Nanny • Main activities and responsibilities My main responsibility is to provide a safe, caring, nurturing and stimulating environment in which the children thrive and develop. General responsibilities include undertaking most tasks related to the children’s care. I am responsible for meeting and greeting children and their parents in the morning, afterward looking after the children until the teacher arrival. Working with children in sub-groups or individually at pre-school teacher's instructions; child self-service skills, hygienic cultural and behavioral skills-building. Serving breakfast, lunch and afternoon snack. Helping teacher in lessons and activities with children. Also I was responsible for keeping the children’s areas neat and tidy, in addition to providing attentive, high quality childcare. Also I am in charge of taking care of the group's premises, cleanliness and order. • Dates (from – to) August, 2012- July, 2016 • Name and address of employer University of Latvia, 4a Visvalza Street, Riga, LV-1050, Latvia • Type of business or sector Univesity, https://humanitarie.lv/ • Occupation or position held Head of Cultural department / Photographer • Main activities and responsibilities Main responsibilities were organizing cultural events, informing people about meeting time and point, giving feedback to people about past events and organize conferences. I was also responsible for help with the events planning, managing the support staff: backstage, gate and assistant. I was also in charge of writing reports after events. Main responsibility’s as a photographer was capturing events like balls and discussions using digital (DSL) cameras. Work 1 in different lighting and situations, inside and outside. • Name and address of employer June,-- July, 2016 August, SIA University “Foto istaba” in”AS “Tallink Grupp”, 2-13Riga, Indranu Street,Latvia Riga, LV-1010, Latvia of Latvia, 4a Visvalza Street, LV-1050, • Type of business or sector Univesity, https://humanitarie.lv/ All types of photography and printing service • Occupation or position held Head of Cultural department / Photographer Photographer responsibilities organizing cultural events, informing people about timein and MainMain responsibilities as a were photographer is to capture passenger embarkation on themeeting ship, work point, giving feedback to people about past events and organize conferences. I was also studio, that includes putting theevents photo studio (lights, background), capturing the happy gate moments responsible for help withupthe planning, managing the support staff:allbackstage, and as example birthday celebration and the lottery. I am also responsible for editing and helping the sales assistant. I was also in charge of writing reports after events. Main responsibility’s as a photographer was capturing events like balls and discussions using digital (DSL) cameras. Work person sell them afterwards. in different lighting and situations, inside and outside. • Dates (from – to) • Main activities and responsibilities EDUCATION AND TRAINING • Dates (from – to) June, 2016 - August, 2016 • Name and type of organization providing education and training OBJEKTIVS.LV, 11 Skolas street , Riga, LV-1010, Latvia • Principal subjects/occupational skills covered Photography: History of photography, Shutter speed and ISO, Camera (FX and DX), Composition, Light (natural and artificial), Studio work (working in studio), Photoshop (lightroom), styles of photography, print. • Title of qualification awarded Photographer • Level in national classification Vocational education • Dates (from – to) September, 2012 - July, 2016 • Name and type of organisation providing education and training University of Latvia • Principal subjects/occupational skills covered Sensory and motor anthropology, kinship anthropology, biological anthropology, cultural and social anthropology, classical theory, introduction to methods of anthropology, religion and ritual anthropology, sexuality and gender anthropology, Asian ethnography, thing anthropology, economic, body and medicine, animal and museum anthropology. • Title of qualification awarded Humanity bachelor degree in social and cultural anthropology • Level in national classification Anthropology PERSONAL SKILLS AND COMPETENCES MOTHER TONGUE OTHER LANGUAGES Latvian English Russian • Reading skills Good Basic • Writing skills Basic Basic • Verbal skills Good Basic SOCIAL SKILLS I have excellent communication skills gained through working in student council where I had the chance to communicate with different people, who had different backgrounds, but were aiming for the same purpose. Working in project and groups I have learned how to be a leader and a team player. Working with students I was dealing with stressful situations, but it didn’t make my 2 AND COMPETENCES work harder and I did it with flying colors. I am always trying to be open mind end do my work as fast as I can. I am creative, with a good eye for a picture, have excellent technical and photographic skills, have good communication and people skills gained through working as a photographer. I am commercially aware and good at marketing myself. ORGANIZATIONAL SKILLS Working in a group as a leader or just a group member I always analyze situations and understanding what I can I do to achieve the goal better. I feel comfortable making decisions and I am fast on my feet. Have experience working with groups, giving feedback to people about their work and organizing meetings. AND COMPETENCES TECHNICAL SKILLS AND COMPETENCES Good knowledge of office machinery (printer, scanner, copier, fax machine), office software (MS Word, Power Point, Excel). Good knowledge of web browsers (Mozilla Firefox and its add-ons, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Apple Safari, Google Chrome, Opera) and e-mail applications (Microsoft Outlook). I have good IT skills, especially with computer programs such as Lightroom Photoshop. ARTISTIC SKILLS AND COMPETENCES Good in activities such as - yoga, swimming, running, volleyball, squash, painting. REFERENCES Māra Ulme, Head of Student council of faculty of Humanitues, University of Latvia, e-mail:-, phone: - Daiga Kleine, Head of 215 Primary school, e-mail:-, phone: - The information provided in CV is true, correct and with best of my knowledge. I agree with the Terms and Conditions of SIDC Group. I agree with using my personal data, all data in this application form, documents and working experience and sending them to other recruitment agencies and employers. Filling out the application and required forms of the agency and providing personal data, photographs, references and other documents for the work, the applicant consents to SIDC Group rights to process the personal data and fill them into the database of the agency in purpose to provide a job, work and travel programs, internships and trainings for applicant. (It applies also for the applicants who fill out the application over the Internet). By filling out this application form applicant will be registered in our agency. I agree to pay my return ticket if anything of the above stated is false or wrong. Date: 01 October 2017 3 Applicant's Signature: Linda Liepina