Resume
Home Resume Work Portfolio Personal Portfolio Contact		Summary Six-year career in the Web and eCommerce design fields strengthened by a lifelong interest in Art. Utilized creative and unique style to explore web design concepts and relate them to marketing strategy and corporate branding. Fluent design skills and understanding of industry standard web design software including Adobe PhotoShop, Macromedia Flash MX, Adobe ImageReady, HomeSite, Fireworks, and HTML. Works on both Mac and PC platforms. Works well independently and in cooperation with teams. Professional Experience Burlington Coat Factory, Lebanon, NH Intranet Site Designer 2003 - Current Designed page layouts and graphics for Burlington Coat Factory's intranet site. Designed and created pages and graphics for BCF's external corporate web site. Used attractive and unified design standards to redesign the existing intranet site. Created branding standards for the intranet site and brought existing site into line with them. Designed sites for the new Portal Collaboration Suite initiative. Edited and redesigned pages and graphics for the external corporate site. Influenced the implementation of good coding and file naming conventions. Gateway, Inc./NECXdirect.com, Beverly, MA Web Design and Production Specialist 1999 - 2002 Designed web page layouts, site graphics and online advertising for Gateway.com, Gateway.net, Gateway Accessory Store and NECXdirect.com. Designed and created most of Gateway's online banner advertisements. Promoted to lead online advertising designer and worked closely with marketing while managing another designer to create effective, yet timely, graphics. Influenced several site re-designs for Gateway and NECXdirect.com. Facilitated the design transition from NECXdirect.com to Gateway.com. Contributed to maintaining 100% of advertising revenue, despite a 65% decrease in the online budget. Conceived, designed and created several initiatives for online advertising resulting in a more interesting and unified brand presence. Established and maintained the Gateway brand through numerous online advertising campaigns with input from marketing representatives and the design director. Augmented web and graphic design skills with HTML expertise that resulted in improved website compatibility and usability. Maintained product image database and monitored file naming conventions for consistency. Burlington Coat Factory, Lebanon, NH Web Designer 1997 - 1999 Expanded and developed the primarily informational website for an inventory-oriented site. Maintained the site while designing, creating and coding hundreds of new static web pages and product images. Promoted to lead layout and design role in the creation of a new dynamically generated website, which replaced the static website. Education Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI B.F.A. Painting, 1996 Grade Point Average 3.2