Lora Lamm's Resume

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Objective:	Employment in a setting where I may apply my skills, learn new ones and meet new people.
Biography:	Born in Guadalajara, Mexico. Attended a bilingual private school, moved to the United States in 1983 where I continued my education. Graduated from Las Cruces High School and obtained my Bachelor's Degree from New Mexico State University. Moved to Oahu, Hawaii and currently reside in Honolulu.
Education:	Graduated with Honors May 1992 from New Mexico State University where I attained a Bachelor of Arts with a Double Major in Psychology and Art (emphasis in Photography).
Honors:	Dean's List College of Arts and Sciences (Top 10% of Class), Crimson Scholar, Honors Seminar Program, Vivian B. Head Scholarship recipient, Kiwana's Scholarship recipient, Alumni Association Honor Scholar, Key Club Member, Hardest Working Swimmer Award, NMSU Athletic Scholarship, French Honor Student Award.
Experience:	Assistant Buyer: Powder Edge Outdoor Gear Corporate Office. Nov 2000 -Present. Assisting Buyer in a variety of tasks involving buying wholesale merchandise for retail sale, setting up new vendor accounts, creating and revising pre-season orders as well as "fill in orders" according to stock needs and placing special orders for customer requests. Maintaining detailed inventory of all merchandise. Receiving, priceing and stocking merchandise. Responsible for high level of customer service communicating with Management, Vendors, Sales Associates and customers. Responsible for developing and creating various forms to help ensure customer service and efficiency (ie. Special Orders, Warranty and Repair, Shipment Requests, and Mail Services).
	Profesional Sales: Powder Edge Outdoor Gear, Oct 1999-Nov 2000. Learning and helping customers learn about technical outdoor gear to meet their needs. Opening and Closing responsibilities, inventory, maintaining professional sales relations with customers, ensuring customer satisfaction, performing credit card, check, and cash transactions.
	Research/Data Entry: Island Info Tech, 1519 Nuuanu Ave, #154, Honolulu HI, 96817. 1999-present, temporary. Reserch Internet market by making phone calls to potential clients and imputing information in a data base.
	Silk Screening: Self operated service custom printing and creating silk screen designs. 1998-present. Working with clients, processing orders, creating invoices and graphic art for printing on t-shirts and sweatshirts, and delivering services in a timely and professional manner. Customers include: Cafe Haleiwa, Paradise Found Cafe and Smother Party (Alternative Music Artist).
	Web Design: Self operated service creating and designing Web Pages and Graphics for local companies. 1998-present.
	Computer Animation: Electric Gallery. Volunteer. Nov 1994- Oct 1995. Assisting with video editing and creating "Cyberdelic Animation" for airing on local Community Television (O'LELO).
	Graphic Design: Coffee Gallery, 66-250 Kam Hwy., Haleiwa, HI. April 1995. Designing and painting roadside sign and table tops for dining area.
	Graphic Design and Photography: Oceanic Institute, Makapu'u Pt. April 1993. Working on a contracted basis to photograph facilities and workers for manuals and newsletters and designing cover and inside graphics for the Annual Report.
	Aquarist: Sea Life Park, Makapu'u Pt. Oct 1992- Oct 1993. Maintaining aquaria, performing public lectures and SCUBA Diving shows, designing water filtration system for aquaria, feeding and maintaining general health of sea life and collecting specimens in the wild.
Skills:	Bilingual (fluent in English and Spanish), knowledge of processing black and white and color photos, excellent costumer service and communication skills, graphically and artistically inclined.
	Computer Skills: Hardware: Flatbed Scanner, Digital Camera, Digital Video Camera, Iomega Digital Storage and external or internal CDRW. Software: Operating Systems: Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows 2000. Internet literate, HTML, FTP, Teleconferencing, Microsoft Office 2000: Exel, Word, Outlook etc; Windows 95/98, Apple Works, iMovie, Adobe: Photoshop 6.0, Illustrator 9.0, Live Motion, Go Live, Image Ready and After Effects. Animated GIF constrution,
References:	Available upon request.