Related Experience

Marketing Assistant/Coordinator, GE Federal Credit Union, Cincinnati, OH,
February 2006 to Present

• Coordinate marketing and company communications and promotions within the organization. This includes the distribution of all marketing collateral and assisting with all aspects of memos and related correspondence (i.e. writing, copying, distributing).
• Review, revise, update, maintain, and continually develop company websites. This includes creating new pages with new material, adding depth and structure, and designing new graphics. Within this role I have also created two additional websites for the company from scratch.
• Generate, update, enhance, and provide ideas, verbiage, layouts, and design for company newsletters, brochures, promotional pieces, and campaigns.
• Assist and coordinate company events such as: lobby days, golf outing, and St. Rita festival.
• Create advertisements, business cards, letterheads, mastheads, and various other business related design needs.
• Generate monthly reports, using Microsoft Excel and Word, relating to loan applications, loan income, internal email usage, and external internet usage.

Membership and Guest Services Coordinator, Headley-Whitney Museum, Lexington, KY,
January 2005 to February 2006

• Creatively marketed gallery openings and special events held at the Headley-Whitney Museum. This included website projects, writing press releases, coordinating cross promotion with local museums and galleries, and the creation of press packets.
• Artistically created graphic materials including brochures, invitations, posters, mailers, website graphics, and newsletters for the marketing division of the Headley-Whitney Museum.
• Redesigned the Headley-Whitney Museum website successfully creating a cohesive look integrating all aspects of the museum’s collection.
• Effectively maintained current membership and renewals for the museum using Microsoft Access, Excel, and Word.
• Profitably arranged and executed an annual giving campaign involving over 700 addresses. This campaign included personalized letters to 300 individuals. As the second largest fundraiser for the museum this mailing raises between $10,000 and $20,000.

Freelance Graphic Artist / Production Artist,
October 2004 to Present

• Redesigned and developed the website for local Lexington restaurant Jonathan’s at Gratz Park. This site was given a new look, including flash animation on the home page. The addition of an ecommerce section for purchasing gift certificates successfully resulted in increasing revenue of the business within the first month of its launch.
• Provided recognizable branding mechanisms for the Appalachian College Association’s annual summit in the form of banners, posters and a logo. These materials attained enough acclaim within the organization to become permanent branding materials.
• Successfully redesigned the website of The Blue Grass Trust for Historical Preservation. For this project the organization wanted an updated look and feel incorporating their 50th anniversary logo. The site architecture was also redesigned to better organize their website content. This site will be launched in early August 2005.

Web Production / Assistant Web Developer, Illumina Interactive, Boston, MA,
May 2002 to October 2004

• Successfully assisted in the creation of five dynamic ASP based web sites, from inception to completion, using Photoshop, Dreamweaver, JavaScript and all other necessary programs at my disposal. These sites were all well received by the clients and, on two occasions, entered for awards in their fields.
• In two years I effectively produced ten e-learning modules for online courses under tight deadlines, including translating content with an .xml macro, inserting and arranging graphic images, creating interactive questions and answers and worked on opening animation and menus using Flash MX.
• Productively managed and formatted the content of all dynamic web and e-learning projects by organizing and editing client provided data. Communicated with clients to procure needed data for ongoing sites maintained during my tenure. On several occasions I was commended for my fast turn around time, quality work and professional work ethic in this aspect of my position.

Software Skills

• Advanced in Macromedia Dreamweaver MX
• Intermediate in Macromedia Flash MX
• Intermediate in JavaScript
• Knowledge in ColdFusion MX
• Advanced in Adobe Photoshop 7.0
• Advanced in Adobe ImageReady 7.0
• Intermediate in Adobe Illustrator 9.0
• Intermediate in Adobe Acrobat
• Intermediate in QuarkXPress
• Advanced in HTML/CSS
• Advanced in Microsoft Office Suite

Other Experience

Bookkeeper, Dr. Donald Korb and Associates, Boston, MA, 2002 - 2004

  • Successfully managed all outgoing bills for the office in an accounts payable/receivable format using Quicken software.
  • Maintained the reconciliation of the 3 accounts used by the office balancing each account every month with no errors.
  • Prepared yearly tax information for the company accountant with accuracy and an eye to the best interests of the office.

Education

Clark University Computer Career Institute
Web Design Specialist Master Certificate Program

Program consisted of instructor led, hands on training and lab work.

  • Explored the principles of design, and the critical role of text/typography in design.
  • Utilized QuarkXPress generating professional quality multi-page layouts.
  • Used Adobe Photoshop that applied high-end corrective editing techniques to raster images.
  • Used QuarkXPress, Illustrator, and Photoshop in concert producing high quality artwork for both web and print media.
  • Utilized Adobe Acrobat and the .pdf format generating universal document exchange.
  • Utilized HTML and CSS creating an effective and stylistically efficient websites.
  • Worked with Dreamweaver to enhance websites with popular features such as rollovers and layers.
  • Developed a dynamic website with Macromedia Flash that included animation, interactivity and sound.

Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY
1998 Bachelor of Arts in Art History

Activities

  • In my free time I like to shoot and develop black and white photography. I also manipulate and restore photographs digitally using Photoshop 7.0.
  • I frequently sew and quilt on my own. I belonged to a quilt guild in Boston which allowed me to interact with several master quilters.