Skills
Software Skills: Design Skills: - Campaign
- QuarkXpress - Brand & Corporate Identity Online & Traditional
- InDesign - Advertisement - Advertising & Marketing
- Illustrator - Event Promotion - Event Communications
- PhotoShop - Corporate Collateral - Project Management
- Dreamweaver - Publication - Budget & Vendor
- Final Cut Pro Cover/Interior - Developers
- Premiere - Packaging - Designers
- Flash - Multimedia & Video
- Access - Internet Design Other:
- DVD Studio Pro - Internet / Website Strategy - HTML, CSS, XML
- Acrobat - SEO / Search Engine Optimization - Mac OSX & PC Literate
- PowerPoint - Social Marketing Integration
- Microsoft Office - Analytics & Reporting
Management Skills:
Experience
Principal SouthLand Design Studio, Estes Park, CO Oak Lawn, IL 07/98 - Present
Operate a design studio specializing in independent and integrated designed print, multimedia and Internet
communications.
Graphic Designer GC Amercia, Inc., Alsip, IL 04/03 – 04/06
Planned, created and produced branded corporate, educational and promotional pieces for print, video, multimedia and the
Internet. Designed, developed and maintained websites. Directed video and photography shoots.
Director of Marketing Communications LODESTAR Corporation, Peabody, MA 07/98 – 03/03
Conceptualized, designed and prepared corporate communications for print, multimedia and the Internet. Consistently
implemented and maintained corporate and product brand standards. Increased awareness of products and services
through advertising, direct mail, corporate collateral, trade show, video, multimedia and Internet communications.
Managed designers and developers on staff as well as freelance artists and vendors.
Publication Designer Internship MCC, Bedford, MA 02/98 – 07/98
Designed books, advertisements and brochures for college programs. Created and produced communications for print and
Internet.
Visual Information Specialist USAF AD/R, Chicopee, MA 10/92 – 12/99
Designed presentations, displays, signs, newsletter, certificates and brochures. Illustrated for print communications.
Scanned and corrected images. Maintained image database. Prepared artwork for print, the Internet and display.
Education
Bachelor Degree in Business, Minor in Marketing, Currently a Senior at Lewis University, Romeoville, IL
Associate Degree in Visual Communication, 1998, Middlesex College, Bedford, MA
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