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T E CH N IC A L S K I L L S - M A C A N D P C
Software: Acrobat, Dreamweaver, Filemaker, Flash, Freehand, Illustrator, InDesign, Microsoft Office, OmniGraffle,
Photoshop, QuarkXpress, TextMate
Programming: ActionScript 3, POSH (plain old semantic html), CSS, Javascript (frameworks: jQuery, prototype /
scriptaculous), Wordpress Customization, & functional familiarity with Flex, Ruby on Rails, PHP, & XCode
Registered iPhone developer
P R O F E S S I O N A L E X P E R I E N CE
Designer
9/2002 - present Freelance, Cambridge/MA
Provide branding design and production. Responsibilities include production of graphics, video encoding, design and
development of user-focused web-standards-based sites using css, xhtml, javascript, php, drupal, and mysql, as well as
design, production and oversight of identity suites for a variety of clients such as Partners in Health, Cambridge Health
Alliance, Judy Jetson, Cheapo Records, Boston Area Rape Crisis Center, Smartleaf, The Bridge Fund of Massachusetts,
V Design, Seltzer, Amy Schuyler Clarkson, Maximize Utility, Radio Bookmark, Time-Lag Records, and Wyman’s Pottery.
Contract Graphic Designer, Presentations Specialist and Production Artist
7/1995 - present Aquent, Boston/MA
Design a nd produce print materials, textbooks, presentations, a nd illustrations, as well as providing administrative
support and file trafficking, for various clients such as Catapult Thinking, Charles River Associates, Fidelity
Investments, Putnam Investments, State Street Global Advisors, Massachusetts Medical Society, Houghton Mifflin
Publishing, Buyer Advertising, Cambridge 7 Associates Architects, Perkins a nd Will Architects, Forte Croston Design
Agency, Harvard Planning a nd Real Estate, Harvard Business School Publishing, MIT Department of Transportation.
Senior Graphic Designer
1/2004 - 11/2006 OneBeacon Insurance, through The Creative Group, Boston/MA
Conceptualize, design a nd produce collateral for print, promotion, presentation a nd web. Responsibilities include
knowledge a nd maintenance of brand identity, art direction and development of brand, formulating strategies for
introduction of new products, establishing print specifications, obtaining bids for production, and vendor oversight. On
a freelance basis, design and develop the creative for new corporate rebranding across the corporate literature matrix.
Project Manager and Electronic Production
4/2002 - 9/2003 Pearson Education Custom Publishing, Boston/MA
Supervise production of custom textbooks. Evaluation of manuscript, prepress vendor oversight, trafficking, proofing,
file management, invoicing and reporting.
Graphic Designer a nd A/V Assistant
8/1999 - 1/2003 Grace Construction Products, Cambridge/MA
Design a nd produce print materials, presentations, a/v materials, multimedia cd-roms; maintain website; photography
and video production; set-up and oversee a/v meetings.
E DU C A T I O N
Bachelor of Arts, Applied Art ~ concentration in Painting & Photography ~ University of Southern Maine, Portland/ME
Web Design Project Planning: Information Architecture, NYU's School of Continuing & Professional Studies, NYC/NY
Flash CS3 Complete, Future Media Concepts, Cambridge/MA
Private instruction in Flash ~ Lenni Armstrong, informmotion, Somerville/MA
Multimedia Independent Study with Holography ~ MassArt, Boston/MA
Digital Imaging Workshop ~ Photographic Resource Center, Boston/MA
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S E M I N A R S, C O N F E R E N C E S, S P E CI F I C S T U D Y
Flash on Tap Conference - Flash to iphone workshop, May 2009, Boston/MA
Future of Web Design - November 3-4, 2008, NYC/NY
An Event Apart - Boston 2008, Boston/MA
Presenting Data and Information - Edward Tufte, Boston/MA
Robert McKee's Story Seminar - Fall 2008, NYC/NY
Web Design Project Planning: Information Architecture - NYU's School of Continuing & Professional Studies, NYC/NY
Flash CS3 Complete - Future Media Concepts, Cambridge/MA
Private instruction in Flash - Lenni Armstrong, informmotion, Somerville/MA
An Introduction to W3C’s Mobile Web Best Practices - online
R E L E V A NT E X P E R I E N C E
Management-level experience for a variety of retail businesses ~ The Gap, The Limited, & Banana Republic
Education Facilitator, Holography ~ MIT Museum
Assistant to Holography Artist Harriet Casdin-Silver
Exhibit Painter/Builder/Assistant/Bookkeeper ~ Children’s Museum of Maine
Exhibiting Artist ~ Painting, Photography & Music
Freelance Writer ~ Popwatch, Fresh & Tasty, Cradle
PROFES SIONAL M EM BER SH IP S
AIGA - A merican Institute of Graphic Arts, committed to the Standards of Practice
Interaction Design Association
Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
Web Standards Design + Development group
Build Guild
CDIABU Web Apprentices