Judy Tresnowski

Email: abp5yv@r.postjobfree.com

Address: *** ********** ******

City: Lake Bluff

State: IL

Zip: 60044

Country: USA

Phone: 847-***-****

Skill Level: Management

Salary Range: $75,000

Willing to Relocate

Primary Skills/Experience:

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Educational Background:

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Job History / Details:

Judy Tresnowski

Employment:

Northpoint Horizons (NPH)

Vernon Hills, IL

June 2007 - November 30, 2012

Director of Design including product development, company branding and marketing: print and online, Webmaster and customer service

NPH was a five-year-old supplemental educational publishing division of Learning Resources, Inc. The products are multisensory intervention curriculum for students who struggle with math, reading, and academic vocabulary in elementary schools.

As marketing and design lead, my job included design/production of all product, corporate branding, publicity campaigns, and website design development. Goals included creating a strong online advertising presence and SEO exposure to introduce this new company in a market of well-established competitors. As Webmaster of the NPH website, duties included creating an e-commerce capacity with the e-commerce site Volusion.com. Recently, I established a seller's account on Amazon.com to reach a newer market. I managed multiple outside vendors and in-house staff for various duties. Built and managed budgets and schedules for all the duties described above.

Awards:

Beacon Awards - AEP 2009

Publicity Club of Chicago - 2009

TCA - Learning Magazine 2011

Judge - CBC and AEP - several years

Winner - AEP 2012 for Product (DAA)

and Corporate Branding (Beacon)

www.northpointhorizons.com

www.store.northpointhorizons.com

Harcourt Achieve (HMH)

Barrington, IL and Austin, TX

April 1999- June 2007

Supervising Designer

Design/Art Direction/Manager for:

* All early childhood products for Rigby Education,

* Literacy by Design (formally known as Rigby Literacy)

* Managed six in-house staff and multiple outside vendors. * Created corporate recruiting materials for the Austin group.

Awards - Events:

TCA - Learning Magazine 2005, 2006

AEP - Finalist 2001, 2000

CBC - Winner 2003, 2001, 2000 (2)

PRINT magazine - 2003, 2000

Speaker AEP Annual Conference 2005

Judge - CBC and AEP - several years

Scott Foresman (SF) (Pearson Education)

Glenview, IL

November 1995 - April 1999

Senior Designer

Design/Art Direction/Manager for:

* SF ESL program identity covers 1996

* Member of prototype team.As a member of the design Prototype team, we were responsible for all the programs produced by Scott Foresman's largest school adoptions.

* Design/production manager for the middle school components of the Addison Wesley/SF Math grades K-8 1998

* Design/production manager for grades 3-6 SF Science 2000

Ligature Chicago

Publication International Ltd.,

Lincolnwood, IL

1994 - 1995

Graphic Designer

Entry into the educational publishing industry. Design/Art Direction for various publishing products such as license books with Walt Disney Company(r), Jim Henson Company(r) and Kidsongs(r)

Graphic Designer

Up to 1992

Boston

Fashion advertising (Filenes Department Store),

Fund-raising events (several)

Financial advertising, (Fidelity Investments)

NYC

Corporate Graphics International

Design and Art Direction for Corporate annual reports and financial marketing materials

Over 10 awards in design and advertising; in particular the Award of Excellence at the Retail Advertising Conference (1985) for the Taste by The Book campaign

Education:

* University of Michigan, BFA, Teaching Certification, Art K-12 (current IL)

* University of Chicago, 4 yr. Certification, Classics

* National Lewis University, began Graduate program- Theories of Teaching and Learning (grade: A)

* Over 10 courses from various continuing education institutions

Skills, General Notes:

Educational product development, CS5, HTML, MSOffice, Adobe Acrobat, Google Adwords and Analytics, Constant Contact, Marketing copywriting, MAC and PC, Volusion.com, Amazon.com

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Personal:

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