Award Creative Business Services

CLARE McVICKAR WARD

*** ***** ***** ~ Shrewsbury, NJ ~ 732-***-**** ~ acgdxh@r.postjobfree.com

CLIENT RELATIONS, PROMOTIONS & SALES

Highly motivated. Detail oriented. Excellent skills in client relations

and communications. Creative and inspired sales presentations.

Excellent company business values maintained and promoted. Use of the

most cost-efficient methods and practices for each project without

compromising the end product. Strive to exceed client and corporate

expectations in every project. Pride myself in maintaining cordial

relations with clients, resource providers and business associates.

Focused on teamwork and task completion. Clients always kept involved

and updated throughout all creative processes. Above all, customer

satisfaction is top priority.

PRODUCT DESIGN

Work closely with clients at all times in the design and creation of

exciting new brochures, flyers, ads or magazine articles to insure a

quality product that will best suit a client's needs from concept to

launch. Familiar with a wide variety of online research resources,

archives, and digitized indices available through the international

array of Google and Yahoo search engines.

BUSINESS SKILLS

V Excellent written & verbal sales skills

V Project management & quality control

V Perform cost analysis & budget operations

V Work independently or with team members

V Execute planning & improvement strategies

V Trouble shooting, problem solving & multi-tasking

V Critical issue resolution without tears

COMPUTER SKILLS

Experienced with a variety of Windows operating systems, Microsoft

Office WORD and EXCEL 1997-2007, Adobe Photoshop, Internet Explorer and

navigations. Research and composition of reports, data summaries, and

cost analyses in WORD and EXCEL.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Arts Degree, Cum Laude, Medieval & Renaissance English

Literature at Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA

Fine art training: Studios of Jerry Farnsworth, NorthTruro, MA; Fritz

Pfieffer, Provincetown, MA; and George DuBerg, New York, NY.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Award Research & Design

Self-established Business: Genealogical & Historical Research,

Writing & Publishing, Armorial & Logo Research & Design, Painting &

Sculpture services, West Nyack, NY and Shrewsbury, NJ ~ 25 years and

currently

Annual Heraldry Seminar

"National Institutes on Genealogical Research" Seminar held annually

at the National Archives, Washington, DC ~ Featured Lecturer ~ 10

years

Project Coordinator : Construction & Interior Design of elegant home

Clients:The Hon. Judge Lawrence E. Walsh and Mrs. Walsh, former

Deputy Ambassador to the Vietnam Peace Conference & later Special

Federal Prosecutor in the Congressional investigation of the Iran-

Contra scandal ~ 4 years years. [Previously private secretary &

investment portfolio manager for Mrs. Walsh ~ 5 years].

Chief Illustrator for The American Historical Company

Headquarters located at 8th Avenue & 14th Street, Manhattan.

Publisher of "Colonial and Revolutionary Lineages of America," a

quarterly genealogical magazine ~ 8 years

Latin & French Grammar; Remedial English Grammar & Creative Writing

Instruction

Self-established business: In-home after school tutoring for

Hockaday School girls and Texas Country Day School boys - Dallas, TX

- 3 years

Freshman English Instructor

The Hockaday School - Dallas, TX - 1 year

Retail Sales - Neiman & Marcus

"Permanent floating extra" sales person for all departments in the

original downtown Dallas, TX store; also created colorful window and

counter displays for the Neiman Marcus toy shop - 2 years

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