Experience

Objective

To obtain a position as a Graphic or Web Designer utilizing my creative, marketing, and computer skills to provide effective visual communication.

Education

1997 Florida Atlantic University Bachelor of Fine Arts: Graphic Design, Minor Psychology, GPA 3.58

Experience

6/09-5/10 Service Merchandise, Boca Raton, FL
Retail Web Designer –Designed and organized mass email campaigns. Used Excel spreadsheets to manipulate data for product inventory and email address list maintenance. Maintained and updated website and shopping cart. Promoted the company and its products using search engine optimization (SEO), advertising, discounts, and social networking.

3/09-5/09 Personnel One, Boca Raton, FL (Temporary, Contractor for Service Merchandise)
Retail Web Designer – Designed and organized mass email campaigns. Organized and merchandised the web site.

11/06-10/08 RCI Recruitment Solutions, Jupiter, FL
Marketing Specialist - Planned and produced marketing campaigns. Designed ads, magazine covers, web pages, banners, and HTML emails. Produced and edited video, audio, and PowerPoint presentations. Supported sales staff by producing educational and promotional materials. Provided training and support for InDesign, Dreamweaver, and HTML coding to Production Department. Received Rising Star Award for outstanding job performance.

8/06-11/06 I Creatives, Freelance (Temporary)
Graphic Designer - Designed print and online graphics and layout for a magazine and local ad agencies.

10/05-6/06 Levenger, Delray Beach , FL
Web Graphic Artist – Designed web pages, graphics, splash pages, and e-mails, which required hand coding HTML and working with CSS and JavaScript. Combined product knowledge with Photoshop expertise to manipulate photos, color correct, create color swatches and animations.

1997-8/05 Cathy Card Graphic Design, Inc., Boynton Beach, FL
Art Director/Designer - Provided marketing and a full range of services from product development to designing web pages and writing ad campaigns. Responsibilities included creative concepts, designing the intent and look of the graphics, marketing, planning and research, managing projects and working with vendors to complete the finished product.

1997-1998 Analysts International, Inc., Boca Raton, FL (Contractor - IBM, West Palm Beach, FL)
Graphic Designer - Created graphs, charts, diagrams, tutorials, animations, and conceptual drawings to educate users of software products. Provided print, online, and multimedia materials for speech product.

Software

Mac and PC Programs: Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, InDesign, Quark, PowerPoint, Flash, Word, Excel, Premiere, CorelDraw