Thomas W. Powell, Jr.
kubla@mindspring.com
KUBLAIKHAN@aol.com
Portfolio available online at http://www.mindspring.com/~kubla
Education B.A.- Photojournalism, University of South Carolina College of Journalism
and Mass Communications, Columbia, SC.
Member - Golden Key National Honor Society, two semesters on Dean's List.
In addition to the study of journalism, including reporting, copy editing, and advertising/
public relations, extensive course work has been in the areas of:media arts, digital imaging,
art(photography), anthropology, archaeology, computer science, English, and history.
A.A.- Florida Junior College, Jacksonville, Florida.
Major - English and art (photography), Minor - history and philosophy
Experience PRESENTLY - The Hickory Daily Record, Hickory, NC - Staff Photographer
1996 - The STAR Reporter, Columbia, SC -Chief Photographer, writer
1995 - The Carolina Reporter college internship program, University of
South Carolina, Columbia. -Staff Photographer and writer
1994 - The Lake Edition, Irmo, SC - Staff Photographer and writer
1993 - The Gamecock USC campus newspaper - Photographer
Darkroom 1993 - Wolf Camera and Video, Columbia, SC.
Experience 1992 - Mohawk Color Lab, Greenville, SC.
1991 - Wolf Camera and Video, Jacksonville, Fla.
All above as Photofinisher/Lab Technician, with duties including: extensive black
and white processing, printing, hand coloring, and photo-retouching; color calibration,
correction, and quality control of custom color prints and enlargements from multiple
negative formats; maintenance and repair of processors, printers, and enlargers;
managed C-41 processing, RA-4 chemicals, silver collection, copy work, and internegatives.
Additional Columbia Metropolitan magazine, summer 1996
Publications South Carolina Athletic Hall of Fame, 1996
Affiliations National Press Photographer's Association
Society of Professional Journalists
Computer IBM and Mac experienced; extensive digital imaging capabilities include:
Skills Photoshop (2.5 to v4.0 32bit and plugins/filters/KPT), Corel Photo-
paint, transparent/animated GIF89a construction, various image optimizing
apps, character recognition, slide/negative and flatbed scanners, and numerous printers;
thorough experience with Windows 95 (to Win97 Memphis beta), 3.1, WfWg 3.11, NT 4.0, DOS to
7.0, word processing (MS Word to v7.0 and others), and MS Publisher; skilled in the use of
digital telecommunications hardware, applications and Internet protocols, including:
Hypertext Markup Language (member - HTML Writers Guild), WWW (Netscape and various
browsers), Usenet, ftp, telnet, irc, e-mail applications, video teleconferencing, modems,
and various ISP's; thorough hardware familiarity and upgrade/ tuning capabilities with
Intel/MS-based systems and peripherals (ISA/PCI cards, EIDE, SCSI, ports, video, sound, etc.)
References Furnished on request.