Design Training

MELANIE TEST, M.S.

***** ****** **** ***

Ashburn, VA 20147

502-***-**** (Cell)

*******@***********.***

OBJECTIVE: To procure a full-time position that merges my technical, entrepreneurial and project

management skills with my design and programming, fitness and holistic lifestyle coaching experience.

PROFILE: A successful entrepreneur with over 14 years of print and web design, fitness and holistic

health counseling and training experience, as well as ten years of experience working cooperatively with

clients to meet their creative and informational needs.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERTISE

ENTREPRENEURSHIP

• Founder and owner of an ongoing holistic fitness and vitality business for over four years.

Specialties include: designing holistic fitness, metabolic typing, and lifestyle coaching programs.

• Owner and creative director of a boutique graphic and web design business for three years.

Services included: customized web and logo design; corporate identity; illustration; apparel graphics;

photography; animation; and print services. Specialized in custom-tailoring the architecture, look, feel,

and content of the website with all other aspects of clients’ businesses (e.g., business cards,

letterhead).

MANAGEMENT

• Skilled at developing and nurturing multidisciplinary support networks to guide fitness and

lifestyle clients to services of the greatest benefit to them.

• Highly skilled in managing the creative process from conceptualization to design, to final

production, whether providing the creative design personally, or managing vendors and/or

subcontractors to complete the creative work. Work consistently produced on-time and on-budget.

• Skilled at identifying client needs for marketing, creative design, and/or fitness programs and

finding ways to meet those needs. Strong communication and training skills used to create

partnerships with clients, in order to collaboratively help them meet their goals.

• Demonstrated strong ability in managing deadlines, learning highly technical information, and

communicating that information to a lay audience.

FITNESS AND HOLISTIC COUNSELING

• Expert at discerning the type of diet, training, or lifestyle regimen that is most useful to clients,

based upon a client’s age, weight, metabolic type, baseline fitness, and health goals.

• Capable of empowering clients through providing holistic care, emphasizing mental, physical,

emotional, and spiritual wellness.

• Highly skilled communicator and counselor using: questionnaires; functional movement-based

assessments and various other assessment protocols; and in-depth discussion to determine client

needs.

• Over 14 years of personal training and group fitness experience in a variety of settings.

Numerous certifications allow for variety in custom-designed fitness programs (see page two of

resumé).

• Personal fitness level and enthusiasm for fitness programs led to selection onto the University of

Virginia’s Aerobics Demo Team.

CREATIVE CONCEPTUALIZATION

• Expert at designing creative and challenging class plans for fitness training. Classes taught

include: step, slide, hi/low aerobics, interval training, cardio kickboxing, indoor cycling, boot camp,

muscle conditioning, and BOSU (sports conditioning) classes.

• Extensive experience with web and graphic design assignments. Highly accomplished in

planning, designing, and creating print- and web-based marketing materials for individuals,

government, corporate, and non-profit clients.

• Strong at systems design, in addition to creative design. Previous projects include the

conceptualization, development, and implementation of intranets and the design of the back-end of

the Internet presence for several government agencies.

• Exceptional knowledge of a variety of computer programs and languages including: web design

software; web programming tools and languages; graphic design software; print software; writing,

editing, and presentation software; digital photography; and multimedia.

COMPUTER DESIGN/INTERNET SKILLS

Comfortable in both Mac and PC environments.

Hand coding HTML/CSS, FTP, Usability, Information Architecture, Search Engine Optimization, Web

Editing, Dreamweaver, Flash, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Acrobat, Quark Xpress, Aptana Eclipse,

Microsoft Office Suite, Visio, Sharepoint, Content Management: Subversion CMS, Stellent CMS

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

2008-2009: Web Front-End Developer, CSS/HTML Specialist, Humana, Inc., Louisville, KY

2007: Web Designer, The Web Guys, Elizabethtown, KY

2006-2007: Group Fitness Instructor and Personal Trainer, The Energy Club, Arlington, VA

2006–2007: Independent Graphic and Web Designer (various clients), Arlington, VA

2005-2007: Owner and Fitness/Vitality Coach, Iz Inc., Arlington, VA

2005-2007: Owner and Creative Director, Meltt Design, Arlington, VA

2004-2005: Art Director/Designer, Breakthrough Technologies Institute, Washington, DC

2001-2004: Graphic/Web Designer, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC

2000-2001: Independent Contractor: Web Content Manager and Marketing/Communications Analyst,

Labat-Anderson, Inc., McLean, VA

1999-2006: Group Fitness Instructor, Gold’s Gym, Washington, DC (various locations)

1999-2000: Editor, DynCorp (DynMeridian), Alexandria, VA

1998: Group Fitness Instructor, Sport and Health, Washington, DC (various locations)

1995-1998: Group Fitness Instructor, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA

EDUCATION

2006: M.S., Exercise Science and Health Promotion, Certified Performance Enhancement Specialist,

California University of Pennsylvania; California, Pennsylvania

1998: B.A., English, University of Virginia; Charlottesville, Virginia

FITNESS AND HOLISTIC HEALING CERTIFICATIONS

Aerobics and Fitness Association of America, Group Exercise Certification

American Council on Exercise, Group Fitness Instructor

American Red Cross CPR/AED

Balletone, Certified Instructor

CHEK Exercise Coach

CHEK Nutrition & Lifestyle Coach Level II

CHEK Practitioner Level II

ChiRunning/ChiWalking, Certified Instructor

Cycle Reebok

Healing with Light, Intermediate and Advanced Level Courses

Les Mills BODYCOMBAT

Metabolic Typing, Certified Advisor

National Academy of Sports Medicine, Certified Personal Trainer

National Academy of Sports Medicine, Performance Enhancement Specialist

Nautilus Schwinn Cycling Instructor

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