Resume

Connie Berens
Sebastopol, CA
(707) 824-9293 | web@berensdesign.com

Graphic and Web Designer
Executed all aspects of print elements for KRCB Television and Radio,
print ads, monthly program guide, posters, postcards, brochures, flyers. Redesigned and maintained 150 page web site, including inserting pledge, arts, newsroom, and PBS and NPR modules, and creating web site section for 4 KRCB auctions. September 2000 to present. www.krcb.org

Organizational Consultant/Personal Assistant
Work as independent contractor, organizing personal and business files using Quicken, Quickbooks, Microsoft Word and Excel. business cards, brochures, flyers, and personalized cards and books. Santa Rosa, CA
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Organizational Consultant/Personal Assistant
Worked as independent contractor, organizing personal and business files using Quicken, Quickbooks, Microsoft Word, and Excel.

Bodynamic Institute, Sebastopol, CA.
Mars Venus Institute, Mill Valley, CA.
Sonoma County - 3 therapists in private practice and a building contractor.
Westwood Institute, Oakland, CA.

Chef - Dancing Chefs
Independent contractor specializing in catering meals for retreat centers. Managed all aspects of menu planning, purchasing, preparation, presentation
and staffing. Breakfast, lunch and dinner menus including chicken and fish dishes, prepared in the Northern Calif. style for 30-65 participants.

Bodynamic Institute Retreat, Sebastopol, CA.
Mountain Home Ranch, Calistoga, CA
Rainbow Ranch, Calistoga, CA (All retreats).
Wilbur Hot Springs

Kitchen Manager
Supervised all aspects of retreat kitchen cooking for 90-140 people. Included staff scheduling, meal planning and recipe development, food ordering, and presentation.

Shenoa Retreat Center, Philo, CA.

Circle Leader/Ritualist
Berkeley, Anderson Valley and Sebastopol
Weekly circles offering safe environments for people to share their truth, using many world traditions through symbols, drumming and song. Created and directed two public ritual ceremonies focused around the power of our individual and collective healing for social and planetary change.

Chef
GreatLife Cooking Service, Los Angeles, CA. Owned and operated macrobiotic cooking service. Offered daily meals delivered to home or office for health conscious, busy professionals, including the film industry.
April 84 - Dec 86

Graphic Artist
Hoffman Graphics, Santa Monica, CA. Skills include design, typesetting and paste-up for camera-ready artwork.

Kitchen Manager
Transcendental Meditation Center, Livingston Manor, NY. Supervised all aspects of kitchen and dining room operations serving gourmet, vegetarian meals for up to 350 people. Responsible for all menu planning, work/duty schedules, supervision of bakery, vegetable prep, and clean up.

Skills Summery
Organizing: business, bookkeeping, files, events, parties, workshops, households. Graphic artist with experience in designing business cards, brochures, flyers, greeting cards, and personalized children’s books. Design and sell unique leather and beaded earrings. Gourmet vegetarian cook with 30 years experience cooking for retreat workshops. Natural ability for creating beautiful, warm environments. Create ritual ceremonies, sacred circles for personal or group healing work. Skilled in Pagemaker, In Design, Photoshop, Word, Excel, and Dreamweaver.

 
   

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