Web Designer/Developer

LAURIE COWAN MARION

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Atlanta, Georgia 30345

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www.marionmediadesign.com

DIGITAL MEDIA DESIGNER

Disciplined and thorough producer of solutions, confident writer and editor, judicious designer with a commitment to the discovery of truths through digital media. Depth of experience in multiple contexts enhances creation of custom solutions, passion for communicating drives imagination-friendly work products, and sensitivity to users’ needs guides clear design of interactions. Clients appreciate exceptional technical skills and content presentation that is “elegant, clear, organized, easy to read and understand, and witty.”

CORE COMPETENCIES

Digital media design and development Creative writing Web design and development Research

Mobile augmented reality Dialogue facilitation

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

MARION MEDIA DESIGN Atlanta, GA

Web Video and Site Design Consultant July-October 2015 Designed content marketing assets for provider of financial trading platform. Post-production of video assets, web design and development, new content ideation and production. Microsite designed using premium WordPress theme with numerous customizations.

Web Designer September 2014-present

Developed brand identity for non-profit corporation. Designed responsive website using WordPress, wrote and edited copy, designed information architecture, photographed and edited images. Brand identity now associated with $9.85 million acquisition of 21 acre forest by DeKalb County. Mobile App Designer/Developer April-July 2014

Prototyped hyperlocal social media application. Won hackathon, conducted customer discovery and user interviews, integrated design with branding for local area.

Freelance Video Editor February-March 2014

Produced marketing video for professional development program offered by academic leadership organization. GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Atlanta, GA

Graduate Research Assistant January-May 2013

Wrote advanced curriculum module teaching how to program in Python to produce classic digital signal processing effects. EarSketch Project funded by National Science Foundation. Graduate Teaching Assistant May-August 2012

Graded student assignments and exams for Computational Photography class. Guided student programming in Java to produce effects on photographic images computationally. INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON ELECTRONIC ART (ISEA 2012) Albuquerque, NM Visiting Artist July-September 2012

Conducted an Intel-sponsored workshop with youth to develop a mobile augmented reality experience. Developed innovative STEM education curriculum featured on the ISEA 2012 website and in US News. LAURIE COWAN MARION Page 2

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QUALITATIVE RESEARCH

BRIARLAKE COMMUNITY FOREST ALLIANCE Atlanta, GA

A Vision for the Briarlake Forest 2015

Focus group study, 24 participants. Executive Summary of results helped persuade county officials to support purchasing the land for greenspace.

EXPERIMENTAL TELEVISION LAB, GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Atlanta, GA Universal Threshold Object: Designing Haptic Interaction for Televised Interactive Narratives 2015 In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction (TEI ’15) ACM, New York, NY, 01-15-2015, pp. 285-292. Report of research on visual narrative design, haptic interaction design, and user experience design.

StoryLines: An Approach to Navigating Multisequential News and Entertainment in a Multiscreen 2011 Framework

In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology (ACE ’11) ACM, New York, NY, 2011, Art. No. 92. Report of research on designing navigation conventions and segmentation of stories for multiscreen frameworks.

ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CENTER Atlanta, GA Storyoke Customer Discovery 2014

Customer discovery research for potential startup producing mobile storytelling application following hackathon win. Summary of results presented at ATDC Startup Gauntlet. COMPUTER KNOWLEDGE

Adobe Illustrator Python MySQL

Adobe Photoshop Java Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro

Adobe Premiere JavaScript Microsoft PowerPoint

Adobe InDesign PHP WordPress

Adobe Flash HTML Microsoft Word

FinalCut Pro CSS Microsoft Excel

Maya Tortoise SVN Unity Game Engine

Ruby on Rails Git Audacity

EDUCATION

GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Atlanta, GA

Master of Science in Digital Media December 2013

EMORY UNIVERSITY Atlanta, GA

Doctor of Philosophy in Philosophy December 1996

BRYN MAWR COLLEGE Bryn Mawr, PA

Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy, cum laude May 1983 SWEET BRIAR COLLEGE JUNIOR YEAR IN FRANCE Paris, France College coursework at the Sorbonne

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