Design Quality Control
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Employment Lillie Ruby
Desktop/Web Design
Albany, NY 12210
Communication Services, 50 Colvin Ave., Albany NY, October 2000-Present.
. Design and construction of the following web sites
abpoyn@r.postjobfree.com
www.portofalbany.com - Port Commission of Albany
www.commservices.net - Communication Services, Marketing & Public Relations
www.uhls.org/techvalley - Upper Hudson Library System s Tech Valley Tech Libraries
www.jfsneny.org - Jewish Family Services of New York
www.familyliteracyinnys.org - NYS Alliance for Family Literacy
www.npcnys.org - Neighborhood Preservation Coalition of New York State (maintenance)
www.albany.edu/uas - University Auxiliary Services
. Other duties: design of a wide range of print pieces including brochures, annual reports, newsletters
. Meet with customers to develop project plans, web and print
Freelance Desktop/Web Projects
Graphics by Lillie Ruby, 361 Madison Avenue, Albany, NY, June 1998 to Present.
. Designed the following web sites:
www.michaeleck.com - Singer/Songwriter Michael Eck
www.jamesmcmurtry.com - !996 Grammy Nominee, Singer/Songwriter James McMurtry
. Responsible for layout and design of SPIRAL, a 32 page bimonthly magazine for the Mandala Center
for Creative Wellness, 421 New Karner Road, Albany.
. Designed magazine ads for local photographer: Wedding Magazine.
. Designed transparencies for local business for movie theater advertisement
. Judged the CD cover art category for the Association for Independent Music's 2000 Indie Awards
. Provide digital education for photographers entering the digital world
. Created a dotted line font for student writing practice for Albany Magnet Schools
Desktop Design/Technician
VizGrafx, 19 Glenridge Rd., Glenville, NY, June 2000-October 2000.
. Restoration, preflight, inkjet output, developing product guide for web
Bokland Custom Visuals, 122 Industrial Park Road, Albany, NY, August 1994-June 2000.
. Created most slide presentations, including designs for TVDATA and Albany Medical Center.
. Designed and prepped projects for a wide variety of output devices including 4 x 5 film for display, poster prints
. Retouched photos for restoration and design
. Responsible for all 35mm slide imaging, including troubleshooting, customer communication and follow-up
. Compiled training manuals and troubleshooting guides for slide imaging and digital Xerox output
D igital Restoration/Lab Management
Berns Camera & Video Stores, Inc., Service Bureau, Albany, NY, 1988-1994.
. Performed retouching, restoration, manipulation and page layout on a daily basis with Adobe Photoshop 2.5 and
Quark 3. 0. Created designs with Persuasion, Adobe Illustrator, and PowerPoint
. Designed signs, viewgraphs, business cards, announcements, promotional materials for various New York State agencies,
Ad agencies and photographers
. Trained photographers and technicians in use of Photoshop for print applications
. Maintained equipment, managed two systems: loading of software
. Oversaw quality control of large volume, high quality photo lab - Products consisted of standard prints, enlargements to 12 x 18
. Responsible for training, handling of special customer needs, proofing of critical tasks and machine maintenance schedule
. Performed operations such as retouching, printing, mixing chemistry, balancing, machine repair
Education
MicroKnowledge, Albany, NY: Advanced Dreamweaver: The course covered rollovers and navigation, libraries, layers, style sheets,
coding tools, debugging, JavaScript editing, browser targeting, testing browser compatibility. August 2001
MicroKnowledge, Albany, NY: Introduction to Flash: The course covered basic drawing and painting, objects on a single layer,
manipulating objects, editing shapes, working with bitmaps, working with layers, aligning objects, working with text, frame-by-frame
animation, animation with shape tweening, creating a motion-tweened animation. August 2001
MicroKnowledge, Albany, NY: Enhancing Web Pages with JavaScript: The course covered locating JavaScript code
within HTML, displaying a page last modified date, preloading images, creating swap images, generating a slide show
for a web page. March 2001
Times Union, Albany, NY: Training for the Times Union Communities page web design interface
Computer Visions, Albany, NY: Web Development: Good and Bad Development Techniques, September 2000
MicroKnowledge, Albany, NY: HTML 4.0, Level 2 Programming: This course covered image maps, tables, style sheets,
use of frames, creating forms. June 2000
Conference for Desktop Publishers: 7 CEUs (7 contact hours) continuing education in Web Design, September, 1999
The University at Albany, Certificate Degree in Computer Science, 1983, Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, 1982.
Recommendations:
Available upon request
Software/Hardware Utilization (equally functional in both Mac and Windows)
Webshell, Fetch Dreamweaver 4.0 CoolPix 950 Nikon Digital Camera
Animagic, GifBuilder Fireworks 4.0 Kodak DCS, Canon Video Digital Camera
Adobe Image Ready 3.0 Quark XPress 4.1 Sony Mavica CD400
HTML 4.0 Adobe Illustrator 8.0, 9.0 Variety of desktop scanners- Microtek,
Adobe Golive Microsoft PowerPoint Agfa, UMAX
Salary:
34,000, benefits: negotiable
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