Experience

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  Andrew Rogers Photography LTD.

  • Location and studio

  • Andrew Rogers

    • Jan 1991 - Present
    • Location and studio

    Experience ranging from paid assignments in Portraiture, Sports, Weddings, Events, Fashion and Commercial, Architectural and Fine Art. Shot Pret-a-Porter and Haute Couture Fashion shows 4x a year, as well as editorial fashion shoots in Paris 1999-2002; Shown in Galleries in San Francisco, Barcelona, and Milan. Represented in Europe exclusively by Davide Manfredi (Helmet Newton's agent).

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  South County Bike and Pedestrian Safety Work Group

  • Watsonville,ca

  • member

    • Oct 2018 - Present
    • Watsonville,ca

    A coalition of various Nonprofit orgs (banding with local police and city council members) like Ecology Action, Bike Santa Cruz County, Vision Zero, and Jovenes Sanos, to discuss, create, tweak and build on bike and pedestrian policy to be implemented.

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  Self-Employed

  • San Francisco, ca

  • Private teacher, producer and editor for client CVs, Business English and ESL

    • Jan 2013 - Present
    • San Francisco, ca

    Gave private classes in Business ESL with readings, exercises, tasks, dialogues on subject matter while correcting clients' speech, writing, semantics and syntax. Edited clients' CVs ready for job interviews. Worked with EC school 4.6 years teaching various levels.

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  Headstart

  • Santa Cruz

  • Teaching English to children: Volunteer (Headstart program)

    • Oct 2018 - Present
    • Santa Cruz

    Using proven methods of song, materials, images, gestures and spoken word teaching migrant farmers’ children ages 4-12 English at their home

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  O'cacao raw organic chocolates

  • San Francisco, ca

  • Sales Representative

    • Jul 2016 - Dec 2016
    • San Francisco, ca

    Created lists of potential distributors/shops/individual buyers within small niche markets throughout Bay Area for product. Cold calls to set up meetings and demonstration tastings of small batch raw, organic chocolate confection company in Northern California; Lead sales representative for San Francisco Bay Area/Northern California.

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  BarrelHead Brewhouse

  • San Francisco

  • Marketing Assistant

    • Mar 2012 - Jun 2016
    • San Francisco

    Created (working with controlling owners of BHB) and promoted themed events, special drinks, unique parties and music nights while identifying, contacting and curating list of new clients.

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  EC English Language Centres

  • san francisco

  • Extra-cirricular educative and cultural activity leader at EC school

    • Jun 2011 - Jan 2016
    • san francisco

    Organized weekday and weekend activitites for adult foreign students to better understand and enjoy the American experience, focusing on the Californian lifestyle of sustainability, ecology, bio-diversity, and multiculturalism.Guided outings included talks, eateries, museums, and galleries as well as other significant, multi-cultural venues and landmarks in Chinatown, Ferry Building, North Beach, Tech area of Market Street, murals of Mission District and Haight Ashbury.Professional Sports outings (SF Giants, Oakland A's, SJ Sharks); 5am boating to Alcatraz Indigenous Peoples annual sunrise dances; all day hiking tour of Angel Island; Annual Salinas Rodeo; Stanford University tours; Santa Cruz surfing lessons.Other eclectic outings:Surfing, SUP and Whale Watching in Santa Cruz--even Skydiving in Hollister!Stern Groove concerts, BBQs and picnics to Baker Beach,Marin Headlands and Angel Island all day bike rides (playing group Basebal, Volleyball, American Football and Frisbee.); Painting each others' faces and making altars to celebrate in Dia De Los Muertos Annual San Francisco parade.Took students on educative visits to SF Chamber of Commerce business meetings; Art and Photo gallery tours; BurningMan headquarters; SF Bike Coalition Headquarters, and many others by walking, hiking, biking, public and private transportation.

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  EC international language school

  • San Francisco

  • ESL Teacher (and Entreprenurial Business/Comparative Cultures Instructor)

    • 2011 - Jan 2016
    • San Francisco

    Taught international students English grammar, composition, pronunciation and elucution from Intermediate through Advanced American English levels.Co-developed (with EC Academic Director) and taught various electives, including a Comparative Culture class for 1.5 years.3 years as Business Communication instructor focusing on new program in identifying and developing foreign students' entrepreneurial skills. Students worked independently and in groups studying, researching, and on various entrepreneurial projects, giving presentations on deadlines (the '2-minute pitch' method, and 15-minute presentations) using Powerpoint or Prezi tools. Group brainstorming sessions were enhanced using texts, magazines, illustrations,TV programs (The Profit/ Shark Tank) internet ( Kickstarter, Indigogo, Etsy, others) and real sample products. Relevant business entrepreneurs gave lectures in class, as well as visit to local companies , restaurants, and SF City of Commerce talks.

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  Pedal Magazine: Canada's leading Pro Cycling print & online magazine

  • Toronto, Canada Area; Northern California; France, Switerland, Italy, Spain

  • Professional Sports Photo-Journalist

    • Jan 2006 - Jan 2016
    • Toronto, Canada Area; Northern California; France, Switerland, Italy, Spain

    Writing daily reports, interviewing Pro men and women cyclists, and shooting images of Pro cycling races in California, and much of Europe: Tour of France, Tour of California; Various World Championships and World Cup races of MTB, BMX, Downhill and Road races.Shot images and videos, wrote daily reports and articles; interviewed athletes pre and post-races of men/women professional road/mountain/downhill cycling events throughout the world (Tour de France, World Championships, Tour of California, World Cups, etc).

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  North American Handmade Bike Show

  • Portland, Oregon

  • Co-Editor (& photo-journalist) for NAHBS

    • Feb 2008 - Feb 2008
    • Portland, Oregon

    Responsible for producing daily paper covering all events, reporting on daily highlights, as well as interviewing highlighted bicycle designers, editing all photos and texts.

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  Fashionlines Magazine

  • Palo Alto, California and Paris, France

  • Creative Director & Fashion Photographer

    • Jan 1998 - Jan 2002
    • Palo Alto, California and Paris, France

    Lead photographer and Creative Director working in San Francisco and Paris locations, including Couture and Pret-a-porter designer clothes with model shoots throughout Paris and the Bay Area.Interviews predominantly of French (and American) Haute Couture and Pret-a-Porter designers, perfumers and jewelers.

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  Lorimar films

  • Barcelona Area, Spain

  • Professional Actor

    • Feb 1992 - Feb 1996
    • Barcelona Area, Spain

    Worked in Film, as well as lead protagonist in dozens of TV commercials, mostly in Spain, Italy and Greece; Acted in US/Spanish co-production of TV series 'Dark Justice', shot in Barcelona, Spain. Also, spoke French as the Concierge for the Hotel Ritz, Paris, in the Catalonia film production of an epic historical period film of Catalona and Paris in the 19th century.

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  Elite model agency

  • Professional Model

    • Feb 1987 - Feb 1995

    Based in Milan and Barcelona: Traveled throughout European capitals for Fashion, TV and Catalogue assignments, as well as international Fashion shows.

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  UCSC volunteer program

  • watsonville

  • Migrant Farmer ESL teacher

    • Sep 1980 - Jun 1981
    • watsonville

    Taught in the vegetable and berry fields (via UCSC community program) teaching adults English practical phrases, helping with forms and quotidian challenges of non-native speakers (Spanish).