JANE BABST
*** **** *** ** ** Brooklyn New York *1218 Cell: 646-***-****
Email: ****.*****@*****.*** www.janebdesign.com
WORK EXPERIENCE
NATURE PUBLISHING - Online Ad Designer (Aug 2007 - present)
. Designing all banners for nature.com website using flash with TweenLite,
actionscript 2 and 3, photoshop, illustrator.
. Trouble-shooting code and banners on nature.com e.g. size, clickTAGS,
animation, design constraints etc.
. Trafficking online banner campaigns in DFP/DART for Publishers, creating
banner reports and availability forecasts - communicating with sales reps
and clients.
. Designing 3rd party emails for clients - checking code, uploading images
to server, checking images etc.
. Updating all rich media, banner and email specifications for nature.com
and distributing to sales.
JOHN WILEY & SONS INC. - Graphic Production Artist (May 2004 - Aug 2007)
. Designing feature boxes, creating mock-ups of pages and buttons for
company website.
. Creating marketing and feature pages using content management system.
. Quality Control of wiley.com websites, checking navigation, shopping
cart, links, forms etc.
. Photo research for website design, marketing materials and company
brochures.
. Creating expense, sales and traffic reports.
NEW YORK LAW JOURNAL - Production Assistant (June 2002 - May 2004)
. Formatting and styling calendars, decisions, opinions and grievances for
daily newspaper and magazines.
. Responsible for layout of ads for print and website - scanning, photo-
retouching images for magazines and marketing.
. Producing Judges Rules Book online and in print, using Quark Copydesk,
html and javascript.
GENERAL MEDIA INC. - Art Director (April 1998 - December 2001)
. Responsible for production and creation of website including features,
banners, headers and footers, including some flash animations. Software
used was HTML, dreamweaver, BBEdit, javascript, flash, photoshop,
imageready, FTP, illustrator and quark.
. Responsible for digital imaging including high resolution scanning and
color correcting.
. Organized and prepared 1,000,000 image database, Canto Cumulus.
IDEAL PRINTING - Mac Assistant (July 1995 - Feb 1998)
. Creating and typesetting brochures, logos, advertisements, newsletters
for print.
. Color correcting and photo adjusting high-resolution scans.
. Checking fonts and graphics in files for output to film and digital
printer.
DORIS WIENER GALLERY - Gallery Assistant (May 1990 - July 1995)
. Care of works of art including framing, matting, lighting, display,
arranging for photography, upkeep of photograph/slide library and assisting
with restorative work.
. Documentation of pieces, writing descriptions, researching history,
origin and dates.
. Providing information and photographs to a wide variety of international
museums, clients and dealers.
SKILLS
. Web design, photo-retouching and color correcting
. Adobe Flash4, Photoshop4, Ilustrator4, Indesign4, Dreamweaver CS4.
. Html, javascript, CSS, actionscript 2 and some 3, TweenLite
. Microsoft office suite, WebTrends, Omnigraffle, DFP/Dart for Publishers,
CMS, Silverpop
EDUCATION
1984-87 Ontario College of Art - Toronto, Canada - 1986-87 - New York off-
campus program.
1995 - Summer Pratt - NYC - Illustrator 1996 - Spring Pratt NYC -
Advanced Photoshop
1997 - Summer Pratt NYC - Digital Retouching 2000 Spring New School NYC -
Flash 2002 Winter FIT NYC - Advanced
2010 - AIC - Advanced ActionScript 3