Quality Assurance Design

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EDUCATION PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Art Center College of Design Freelance Web & Graphic Designer Communications & Resource Development Intern

Feb 2011 - Present

MFA Candidate in Media Design Matters Isles, Inc.

- Clients include Northwestern Mutual, Voit Real Estate

Anticipated Graduation: Aug 2013 Trenton, NJ / May - Aug 2007

Services, UC Riverside, Renewal, Child Leader Project, - Designed print materials and photographed events

3.9 GPA, Messiah College Honors Program Walter Cabal Music, Schlegel Run Growers, National

- Wrote and implemented environmental education curriculum

Coalition on Health Care, & Crest Community Church

BA in Graphics Technology & Information Systems

Graduation: May 2008, Summa Cum Laude Design Assistant

Junior Web & Graphic Designer

GTIS is a self-created major that combines graphic design, Kathy Hettinga, Distinguished Professor of the Visual Arts

Artesian Design

computer science, and business information systems. Grantham, PA / Jan - Dec 2006

Riverside, CA / March - April 2012

- Edited articles and photos, and created layout

Uganda Christian University - Developed skillset in Concrete5, Magento, and WordPress

and design for two issues of SEEN Journal

Mukono, Uganda / Spring 2007

Communications & Development Associate - Prepared demonstration materials and mockups

for graphic design classes

Temple University DC Central Kitchen

Philadelphia, PA / Fall 2005 Washington, DC / Jan 2009 - July 2010

Website GO! Project Intern

Messiah College has a satellite campus in Philadelphia - Designed, wrote, edited, and managed production

School District of Philadelphia

that allows students to experience living in an urban of all print materials, including four annual reports

Philadelphia, PA / May - Aug 2006

environment. Utilizing this campus, I took classes at - Corresponded with outside vendors and printers,

- Wrote and edited help desk documentation

Tyler School of Art and Temple University. performing press checks and quality assurance

- Trained local school webmasters to use new

- Updated, wrote current event articles, and managed

Senior Art Exhibit content management system

content for main website

www.meetBill.org - Edited Website GO! training materials & manual

- Managed Etapestry database of donors, determining

The goal of the interactive website was to encourage

fundraising appeal distribution, generating thank you

understanding and involvement in local politics, allowing

letters, and maintaining contact with regular donors

viewers to meet various bills. Users could then contact

SPECIAL PROJECTS

the legislative members involved with the bill to either - Developed PowerPoint presentations and newsletters, and

encourage its passage or kill bill. recorded meeting minutes for quarterly board meetings

Co-Founder of The Bread House

Intentional Community

Senior Honors Thesis Web Specialist

Washington, DC / Sept 2009 - July 2010

After attending the International Development

Economic Research Service The Bread House was purposefully located in Northeast DC.

Conference at Calvin College in 2006 and studying

Washington, DC / June - Dec 2008

I encouraged house members to understand the environmental

abroad in Uganda, I developed an interest in global

- Designed and coded interactive Flash applications

implications of their actions; to foster an ethic of hospitality towards

politics. To conduct a more in-depth exploration, I studied

for a conference kiosk, which won first place in the Special

friends and strangers; and to focus their social interactions and

United States foreign policy and its affect on human

Purpose Product category of the National Association of

economic exchanges within the immediate neighborhood.

rights in Africa for my Senior Honors Project.

Government Communicator s Annual Blue Pencil & Gold

As part of the Communities of Communities network, we hosted

Screen Awards

or participated in monthly discussions on racial, environmental,

- Designed and coded interactive employment package theological, and political issues with other intentional communities.

for recruitment purposes

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MEMBERSHIPS

DISTINCTIONS

Inland Empire Graphic Arts Professionals

Dorothy Bell Award

DC Central Kitchen LA Web Professionals

Washington, DC / June 2010

Behance-AIGA Meetup

The award is given to DC Central Kitchen employees who exhibit

Riverside Road Runners

exceptional work ethic and commitment to the Kitchen s vision.

Orisons: Bold Vision at Messiah College

Aughinbaugh Gallery

VOLUNTEER ACTIVITIES

Grantham, PA / Jan 2010

Arlanza Community Garden Committee

The exhibit featured my print & web work created for DC Central

Kitchen, Fresh Start Catering, and The Campus Kitchens Project, Dough Starter Flour Mixture Grain Mixture

Riverside, CA / Sept 2011 - present

displaying bold vision for nonprofit design. /3 c bread flour 1 c bread flour 1 c ten-grain mix*

Amy s Farm Volunteer & Cow Share Participant tsp yeast tsp yeast c hot water

Graphic Design USA American InHouse Design Award Chino, CA / Sept 2010 - May 2011 tbsp honey 4 tsp vital wheat gluten 1 tsp salt

Transforming Spaces issue of the SEEN Journal c warm water

DC Central Kitchen Volunteer

2008 winner

Find the recipe at:

Washington, DC / Aug 2008 - July 2010

Select Images from Doctrine of Signatures I began at DC Central Kitchen as a volunteer, chopping www.elizabethgin.com/bread-matters.php

Messiah College Digital Archives vegetables and supervising other volunteers as we

2007 - present prepared 4,000 meals a day. Even after I was hired as their

Doctrine of Signatures is an image series of naturally occurring Communications and Development Associate in January

elements that resemble parts of the human body. The 34 image series 2009, I continued to volunteer in the Kitchen once a week. *Your ten-grain mix can include any of the pictured grains

was captured using a dissecting microscope and Nikon digital camera. and seeds, as well as coarse buckwheat, pumpkin seeds,

CHERUB Village Nutrition Clinic sunflower seeds, polenta, barley flakes, cracked wheat,

Pray, Uganda Pray, America Mukono, Uganda / Jan - May 2007 and soy nugget granules.

Messiah College Artist Book Collection

2007 - present

Trustees Scholarship

Messiah College Honors Program

2004 - 2008

NCAA Division III Athlete

Cross Country, Indoor Track, and Outdoor Track

2004 - 2008

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