TIFFANY T. FARMAKIS

Assistant to the Gallery Manager
• Responsible for maintaining the nonprofit's backend— adding and maintaining inventory, justifying daily sales and batch reports, handling customer/staff/gallery issues, training and organizing monthly gallery events.

Education Coordinator
• Manage the creation, organization and promotion of classes. This includes coordinating with teachers, designing the brochure, promoting the classes online, monitoring all student registrations, cleaning/maintaining the studios and classroom supplies. I also implemented online class registrations, leading to increased student growth that allowed for the expansion of course offerings beyond Jewelry and Pottery classes.

Website and Graphic Design/Social Media Marketer
• Collaborated with the board and manager to develop a visually appealing, responsive website, ensuring optimal user experience across various devices and browsers. This included the creation of all images/graphics, as well as redesigning the gallery's nonprofit logo.
• Monitor website performance and troubleshoot issues by staying up-to-date with the latest web technologies and trends.
• Design custom graphics for promotional events and marketing. Create all written and visual content for Facebook and Instagram, resulting in a 1600% increase of followers. This includes developing and maintaining a consistent brand image and voice across the nonprofit's social media channels, analyzing data related to engagements and clicks to optimize social media opportunities.
• Monitor, listen and respond to followers when necessary, in order to maintain a positive presence online.

Art Instructor
• Organize and lead a variety of art classes for all age/skill levels.

• Maintain consistent and innovative teaching techniques for greater community engagement and retention. This includes collaborating with other teachers and attending professional art classes to be better equipped at providing the best educational experience for my students.

• Responsible promoting the nonprofit's commitment to education through community initiatives. This includes: art demonstrations, projects and classes.

Illustration Assistant/Digital Lab Monitor
• Assisted Illustration Head with various department needs including classroom organization, hanging student artwork and editing event newsletters.
• Responsible for maintaining digital labs and assisting students with various technical problems.
• Recognized for my department knowledge, friendly demeanor and willingness to go above and beyond to assist both students and faculty.

Gallery Assistant
• Assisted Gallery Head in organizing/promoting shows, this included creating promtional content, finding and coordinating event details with visiting artists, hanging artwork, hosting openings and maintaining gallery appearance by acting as an impromptu handyman.
• Worked with a team of individuals to turn a once defunct student run gallery into a successful venue for students, faculty and visiting artists.

Writing Lab Tutor
• Encouraged active learning and revision strategies for students.
• Guided students of numerous backgrounds in improving their writing skills by assessing their strengths/weaknesses and implementing strategies to overcome their difficulties in writing.

Design Editor
• Responsible for overall paper design/layout. Worked with both writers and photographers to discuss future issues and suggest layout improvements. • Recognized statewide for achievements in paper design, winning the JACC Pace Setter Award in 2004 and 2005.

News Editor
• Proofread, edited, and evaluated final copy to verify content.
• Planned for coverage of large events by assigning reporters and photographers.
• Interviewed sources and developed relationships with informants to obtain vital information for stories.
• Conceptualized, pitched, assigned and monitored stories from origination to publication.
• Reported to Editor-In-Chief daily about news articles for print, daily staff happenings and creation of future content.
Writer/Editorial Cartoonist
• Recognized statewide for my writing achievements in News, Feature and Opinion writing. • Created graphics, cartoons and illustrations highlighting various current news headlines. • Responsible for the weekly editorial cartoons by working closely with the Opinion Editor. • Recognized statewide for my achievements in Editorial Cartoon, taking home many awards, including first place at the 2005 JACC competition for Editorial Cartoon.

Frontline Coordinating Manager
• Recognized store-wide for my efficiency and general store knowledge. Working at different locations also allowed me to get more familiar with the varying merchandise and diverse cliental.
• Responsible for training new associates and introducing them to the store, this included register training, merchandise training and processing training.
• Maintaining Front Lines: Answering phones, Taking care of Customer/Associate complaints, Updating Register Programs and completing the daily schedule.

Cash Office Associate
• Responsible for tallying up all daily cash transactions and submitting a report to management. • Reconciled cash tills at start and end of each shift, accounting for errors and resolving discrepancies. • Followed company policies, procedures and practices for accurate recordkeeping and loss prevention. • Maintained safe contents, communicating with managers to replenish supply of cash on hand when necessary.