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CURRENT MAILING ADDRESS:

Ricky Willis
829B Park Avenue, #2
Norfolk, Va 23504-3935

OBJECTIVE:

I am seeking creative, challenging and rewarding photographic projects and assignments. More than capable of completing tasks to fulfill all job requirements in a timely and cost efficient manner, with proven skills in meeting deadlines and goals. Willing to travel, depending upon project or assignment duration.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

Freelance Commercial/Fine Arts Photographer
August 1986-September 1996
HIGHERVISION PHOTOGRAPHIC SERVICE
Wasghington, DC, Norfolk, VA
Specializing in portraiture, fashion and publicity. Owner/operator of full service photographic service, providing high quality in-house custom black & white photographs. Other services offered included architectural, editorial, corporate and advertising photography. Client list include: Hampton University Museum (publicity photographs), Norfolk City Library (poster campaign), Insyte Magazine (celebrity front cover shots), Norfolk State University Lois E. Woods Museum.

One-Hour Lab Technician
September 1993-April 1994
PHOTO USA, Inc.
Chesapeake, VA
Color one-hour technician and custom black&white photo printer. Required minimum supervision.

Custom Black&White Printer
January 1991-July 1991
IMAGES, Inc.
Hampton, VA.
Lab technician custom black&white photo printmaking, utilizing the Ilforspeed Multigrade 500 printing system and the Ilforspeed 2050 print processor. Duties included upkeep and maintenance of printing equipment, and custom film processing of black&white 35mm up to 4x5 film formats.

Senior Electronic Security System Technician
October 1980-July 1986
TRW, Inc.
McLean, VA
Installation and maintenance of high security electronic monitoring and surveillance systems. Granted Top Secret security clearance in January 1985. Deactivated in July 1986. Supervised two man maintenance/installation crew. Responsible for conception and design of security system coverage and requirements of high security areas, perimeter monitoring to include door ingress/egress control and video coverage.

Military Service
September 1974-September 1980
U.S. NAVY, U.S.S. McCloy, FF1038
Norfolk, VA
Work-center supervisor, radar technician. Honorable discharge in rank of E-6. Obtained solid and extensive background in electronic maintenance and repair. Promoted to the rank of E-7 in the Naval Reserves 1981.

Studio Staff Photographer
August 1971-July 1974
DIRECT PHOTO PRESS, Inc.
Long Island, NY
4x5 and 2� format camera studio work, with related studio equipment and accessories. Well versed in camera and lighting equipment operations in completing catalog photo assignments. Job required careful selection of background, lighting, film selection and exposure, to complete assignments in a timely manner.

EDUCATION:

NORFOLK STATE UNIVERSITY
January 1995-Present
Will obtain Bachelor of Science Degree in May 1999

MAJOR:

Mass Communications/Broadcast Production

HONORS:

NSU HONOR ROLL FALL 1995, FALL 1996
NSU DEANS LIST SPRING 1996, 1997
NATIONAL DEANS LIST 1995-96

AWARDS:

Virginia Undergraduate Scholarship Spring 1996
Hampton Roads Black Media Professionals-Echoes of Excellence Scholarship Spring 1996
Virginia Newspaper Photographers Associations Scholarship Spring 1996
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Undergraduate Fellowship 1996-1997

GPA:

3.57 Cumulative, 3.9 Major

ACTIVITIES:

Photo editor for NSU newspaper, The Spartan Echo, Jan.-May 1995.
1996 Norfolk State University yearbook staff photographer.
Lois E. Woods Museum photographer and Internet webmaster.
Freelance videographer for NSU Center for Instructional Technology.

ORGANIZATIONS:

Mass Communications and Students Association Regional Chapter member 1995-96.
Norfolk State University Spartan Alpha Tau Honor Society member-1996.
Charter member of the Norfolk State University Toastmasters International Chapter-1996.

DESKTOP PUBLISHING EXPERIENCE

MICROSOFT POWER POINT 4.0
QUATTRO PRO 6.0 for Windows
MICROSOFT PUBLISHER 97
Adobe PHOTOSHOP� 2.5
Corel PHOTOPAINT 5.0
Aldus PERSUASION 2.0
Dbase IV for Windows
WORDPERFECT 6.1
MICROSOFT WORD 97
MICROSOFT EXCEL 97

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

Co-founder and builder of the non-profit visual
artist organization and gallery, the IFA�Art Studio
in Norfolk, VA., from December 1991 until September 1993.
Maintained and operated full-time commercial photo studio. Duties
as IFA� member included organization historian and photographer.

Community service involved volunteer workshops instructing youths, between
the ages of twelve and fifteen years of age, in the art of photography. In the winter of
1992 an eight week workshop was conducted at the Barry Robinson Center, Virginia
Beach, Virginia. Another workshop was conducted in the spring of 1993 at the Sumner
Terrace Complex in Norfolk, Virginia.

Implemented and organized the installation, tours and workshops for the photographic exhibit
"YOUNG VISIONS: a new look at our world". The photographers were three young and
gifted urban D.C. teens. Their introduction to photography began when their families were
homeless living in shelters and participating in Jim Hubbard�s �Shooting Back� project.
Having been published world-wide the �YOUNG VISIONS� exhibit was their first
major show within the Black community after their split from the �Shooting Back�
project. The exhibit ran at the IFA� Art Studio October thru November 1992.

Mentor and project photographer for the Park Place community in Norfolk,
for the Virginia Beach Center for the Arts photo-documentary "OPEN
SHUTTERS: Photographic Impressions by African-Americans in
Hampton Roads" also advisory board member in the planning
and implementation of project objectives and timetables
for workshops and exhibit of images of life by novice
photographers from various urban communities.

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