Veronica Kirchoff

1400 Hubbell Place #1311 Seattle, WA 98101 (206) 343-0716 (day); 583-0981 eve

E-mail: [email protected] http://home.earthlink.net/~ubelengel/

Work History

The Fenix/Fenix Underground -- Seattle, WA
Advertising, Publicity & Promotions, 9/96-Present

Designing flyers, posters, advertisements and other promotional/publicity materials; mailing list maintenance; developing promotional programs and incentives in cooperation with record labels, distributors and bands.

Adobe Systems/Keane, Inc. -- Seattle, WA
Technical Support, 10/96-3/97

Technical support for Adobe PageMaker, TrapMaker, Table Editor, Type Manager, Acrobat Distiller, and associated products as they interact with PageMaker. Includes troubleshooting hardware and software conflicts, printing problems, graphics and font issues, as well as how-tos and and user interface support.

DialAmerica Marketing -- Seattle, WA
Telephone Sales, 7/96-10/96

Outbound telephone sales, call-tracking and order processing.

Digger International Booking -- Chicago, IL
Public Relations/Electronic Media Maintenance, 7/96-10/96

Maintaining the Digger website/guestbook and E-mailing list.

Seibold Music -- Costa Mesa, CA
Public Relations/Promotions, 2/96-Present

Establishing and maintaining business relations with clients of Seibold Music in the Northwestern United States.

Marilyn Manson/Satan's Bakesale -- Tacoma, WA and New Orleans, LA
Grand Messenger, 7/95-7/96

Writing, designing and distributing printed and online newsletters for the band Marilyn Manson; merchandise purchasing, inventory and order fulfillment; web page design and maintenance.

The TCC Challenge newspaper -- Tacoma, WA
Arts & Entertainment Editor, 3/95-6/96

Maintaining the A&E calendar of events; research, reporting and writing; supervising, assigning and evaluating other reporters' work; photography; copy editing; page design, graphic design and layout; paste-up; distribution.

The Infamous Herr Fickelgruber's Freakzine & Levity fanzine -- Tacoma, WA
Editor/Publisher, 4/94-6/96

Responsible for all aspects of production as well as bookkeeping, distribution and advertising. Includes interviews; photography; reviews; news; editorials and commentary.

Current Projects

I do freelance writing for several music publications and publish a webzine called Mainline, consisting of my previous work as well as recent material. I am the sole-proprietor of Übel Engel Promotions, through which I do freelance promotions, publicity, graphic design and web site design and maintenance. I am currently working on a CD compilation featuring bands I have worked with recently, which will also include some of my own music. I am also Director of Operations for the U.S. office of a Finnish Electro-Industrial record label called Cyberware Productions.

Education

Associate of Arts and Sciences, special interest in Journalism - Tacoma Community College

Certified Adobe PageMaker Technician - Keane, Inc., Seattle

Honors and Awards

Tacoma Community College Outstanding Student Award for Achievement in Journalism, 1995
Washington Press Association 1996 Excellence in Student Journalism, Editorials

Software

ClarisWorks, WordPerfect, MS Word, MS Excel, Lotus Notes, Quark XPress, Adobe PageMaker, Adobe PhotoShop, Adobe TrapMaker, Adobe Table Editor, Adobe Type Manager, Acrobat Distiller and Reader, CorelDraw, Macromedia SoundEdit 16, Macromedia Extreme 3D, Quicken accounting, GNN Press web publishing, GIFBuilder, Fetch FTP, NCSA Telnet, Netscape Navigator, WordLynx and OmniPage Direct OCR

Operating Systems

Macintosh, MS-DOS, Windows 3.1/3.11 for Workgroups, Windows 95, Windows NT