Resume

Web Designer with twelve year career in the Web and eCommerce design fields seeking new opportunities. Experience strengthened by current exploration of 3D Modeling and Digital Art and a lifelong interest in Fine Art. Creatively explored web and graphic design ideas and applied them to intranet site design, coding and development, photograph correction and graphic creation, CMS (content management systems), marketing strategy and corporate branding.

Skills

Fluent design skills and understanding of industry standard web design software including Adobe Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Illustrator, HTML 4.0, XHTML, CSS, Joomla!, Adobe ImageReady, Flash MX, Visio, HomeSite, and Fireworks. Additional software skills include Corel Painter, Autodesk 3Ds Max, Autodesk Maya and Z-brush. Works on both Mac and PC platforms.

Professional Experience

2011	Ethos Anesthesia, Austin, TX
	Freelance Web Designer
	Designed and developed the www.EthosHealthcare.org website using the Joomla open source Content Management System (CMS). Graphics created in Photoshop. HTML and CSS code created by a template and modified using Dreamweaver and the Joomla Administrator tools.
2011	Legacy Home, Austin, TX
	Freelance Product Designer
	Used graphics skills and modeling software to design a piece of furniture.
2009 - 2011	College and Family Leave
	Attended classes at Austin Community College. Primary care-taker of two infants.
2009	Various Clients, Austin, TX
	Freelance Web and Graphic Designer
	Designed and created a website for Mother’s Day Out preschool. Coded in Dreamweaver using a combination of HTML, XHTML, and CSS. Graphics created in Photoshop.
2003 - 2008	Burlington Coat Factory, West Lebanon, NH and Austin, TX
	Lead Web Designer, Intranet Site Designer, Kiosk Interface Designer
	Designed page layouts, coded pages, created graphics and developed design standards for the intranet site. Edited pages, created graphics and worked on a major site redesign of the external corporate website. Used Adobe Photoshop, Dreamweaver and CSS in multiple projects. Used attractive and unified design standards to redesign the existing intranet site. Created intranet branding standards from scratch and implemented them. Designed sites for the new Portal Collaboration Suite initiative. Designed user-interface for in-store Baby Registry Kiosk. Edited and redesigned pages and graphics for the external corporate site. Designed the Cohoes subsidiary website.
1999 - 2002	Gateway, Inc. / NECXdirect.com, Beverly, MA
	Web Design and Production Specialist
	Designed online advertising, web page layouts, and site graphics for Gateway.com, 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. Contributed to several site redesigns 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. Designed and created several initiatives for online advertising resulting in a more attractive 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.
1997 - 1999	Burlington Coat Factory, Lebanon, NH
	Web Designer
	Expanded and developed the primarily informational website into 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

Austin Community College, Austin, TX
3D Modeling, Currently Enrolled
Grade Point Average 3.8

Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI
Bachelor of Fine Arts, 1996
Grade Point Average 3.2