Portland, Maine Area
- Current
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- Photojournalist at GoodPhotos.com
- Past
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- Marketing/Sales Guru at Snapdragon Technologies/WiredBusiness/Ionospeed
- Account Manager/Customer Service at HarvardNet
- Regional Field Supervisor at Information Resources, Inc.
- Still Photographic Specialist at USArmy
- Education
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- University of Southern Maine - School of Business
- New Mexico State University
- University of Alaska Fairbanks
- Connections
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Michael Eric Berube (LinkedIn@GoodPhotos.com)’s Summary
I used my hard earned GI Bill money and obtained the Sheepskin in Marketing (everyone said I shouldn't waste my time on the Philosophy Degree that I really wanted) and I then pursued the Great American Corporate Dream (tm) for a little over a decade in Market Research and Sales & Marketing.
I really believe in taking care of my clients, so I was a fairly successful and a very busy 'sales guy'. What left me unfulfilled were tthe demands of working for corporations who weren't always able to be as client focused as I felt we should be able to be. While the last corporation I worked for was a great experience, it was a casualty of the Great DotCom Implosion of 2001. After the dust cleared, I reevaluated where I was, compared that to where I wanted to be and realised that yet another startup wouldn't get me to where I wanted to go so I left Sales & Marketing to come back to being a happy, successful, self employed photographer, dad and husband full time.
Career wise, I am right where I want to spend the rest of my 'working' life. I get to work with the creative and interesting people whom I chose to work with and who value my product and services. I can be as customer oriented as I want to be, without answering to a new kid on the block CEO or VCs about what good customer service should cost. Other than when I'm actually making photographs with clients on site, I work largely from home and to my own schedule. (Which is convenient because, my most productive office hours are seemingly between 9pm-3am).
My profession meets my needs financially and spiritually and enables me to take a much larger role in my family's life than I would have ever been able to had I continued to be salaried from 8am-6pm (plus a two hour commute) in a white shirt and red tie from Monday to Saturday.
Life is not just good, life is great and I want to continue to work with clients who realise this as well until the day I am no longer able to hold a camera up.
Michael Eric Berube (LinkedIn@GoodPhotos.com)’s Specialties:
Event Photography, Reportage, and Creative Environmental Portraiture are my photographic specialties.
Michael Eric Berube (LinkedIn@GoodPhotos.com)’s Experience
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Photojournalist
GoodPhotos.com
(Photography industry)
1989 — Present (19 years)
Full time (since 2001) Portrait, Event and Commercial photographer and an occasional Freelance Photojournalist.
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Marketing/Sales Guru
Snapdragon Technologies/WiredBusiness/Ionospeed
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
1998 — 2001 (3 years)
Marketing Consultant for an IT Consultation business and then and then Marketing/Sales Manager for one of the first nationwide B2B in-building DSL providers.
(Listed together as most of us at Snapdragon helped start WiredBusiness and then Ionospeed.) -
Account Manager/Customer Service
HarvardNet
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
1997 — 1999 (2 years)
Acquired and managed business to business DSL accounts for one of the nation's first CLECs before most businesses could even spell DSL or cared about having anything more than a dialup AOL account.
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Regional Field Supervisor
Information Resources, Inc.
(Market Research industry)
1991 — 1996 (5 years)
Interviewed, hired, trained and supervised part time employees in the States of Maine, NH, VT and (Northern) MA in the conducting of tests and the collection of data on the movement of consumer package goods in retail outlets.
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Still Photographic Specialist
USArmy
(Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Military industry)
1985 — 1989 (4 years)
Photographed Tests & Evaluations of Research & Development activities of the US Department of Defense. Performed photojournalist assignments for military publications. Documented awards ceremonies. Documented forensics for Military Criminal Investigations Divisions and duty activities of Military Police Special Reaction Team. Assigned as aircraft crewmember (UH1 helicopters) in order to provide aerial photographic support for all of the above.
Michael Eric Berube (LinkedIn@GoodPhotos.com)’s Education
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University of Southern Maine - School of Business
Marketing/Management 1989 — 1992
Finished degree after my honourable discharge from the USArmy.
- Activities and Societies:
- Photographer, Free Press.
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New Mexico State University
Mathematics 1988 — 1989
Part time student while enlisted and stationed at WSMR.
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University of Alaska Fairbanks
Photojournalism 1986 — 1987
Studied Part Time while enlisted and stationed at Ft. Greely, AK
Additional Information
Michael Eric Berube (LinkedIn@GoodPhotos.com)’s Websites:
Michael Eric Berube (LinkedIn@GoodPhotos.com)’s Interests:
Photography, Philosophy, Alternative Energy, Self Governance
Michael Eric Berube (LinkedIn@GoodPhotos.com)’s Groups:
A.F&A.M, Wedding & Portrait Photographers International, I've been Chair of the Town of Denmark, Maine's Board of Appeals for almost a decade now and served as Chair of Oxford Cty for the Libertarian Party of Maine through most of the 90s.
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Maine Wedding Professionals
Michael Eric Berube (LinkedIn@GoodPhotos.com)’s Honors:
Worlds Greatest Dad. (Awarded the Mug and all!)
Honestly, I spend more time making sure that I have very happy clients than taking any time entering print and clipping competitions to show how good I am.
I did receive the Army Achievement Medal and the Army Commendation Medal, but just for doing an excellent job as an enlisted photographer, not for anything really heroic in the Cold War/Peacetime Army. Of course like most everyone else enlisted at the time, I also received the "Thank you for your service" medals: the Army Good Conduct Ribbon, Army Service Ribbon, Overseas Service Ribbon. I did actually earn an Aircraft Crewmember Badge, an Expert Qualification with the M-16 rifle and Sharpshooter Qualification with Handgrenades, but I've not had much call to use those skills since qualifying for them. (thankfully.)
Michael Eric Berube (LinkedIn@GoodPhotos.com)’s Contact Settings
Interested In:
- consulting offers
- new ventures
- expertise requests
- reference requests
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