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Professional Summary
  • Creative, customer-focused designer delivering on-time and under-budget products
  • Accomplished in business management and processes including operations, finance, IT, training, and supervision
  • Exceptionally talented and skilled team leader and mentor and teacher of school-age, undergraduate, and graduate students
Technical Skills, Applications, and Languages
  • Web, graphic, and computer graphics design and development; layout, animation, branding, typography, motion graphics, video and photo shooting and editing, instructional design and writing
  • HTML/CSS, jQuery, Javascript, Actionscript, XML, Mac and PC platforms
  • Adobe: Photoshop, Dreamweaver (or notepad, etc.), Flash, AfterEffects, Illustrator, Premier, InDesign, Fireworks, Soundbooth
  • Microsoft: Word, PowerPoint, FrontPage, Outlook, SharePoint, Excel
  • Cinema 4D, Macromedia Director, Final Cut
Experience
  • Rochester Institute of Technology, College of Imaging Arts and Sciences, Rochester, NY:
    Computer Graphics Design graduate program; Graphic Design undergraduate program
    Adjunct Instructor, 2010-present
    Graduate Teaching Assistant, 2009-2010
    Courses taught: 2D animation, Imagery in Design, Instructional Design, Web Design for Designers, Digital Video
  • Freelance Multimedia, Web, and Graphic Designer, Rochester, NY, 2005-present
    Logos, websites, print media
  • CIVX.us, Rochester Institute of Technology, 2010
    Web and jQuery widget designer and developer; presented infovis graphics for use by NYS Senate
  • Bryant and Stratton Colleges, Rochester, NY, 2010-2011
    Adjunct instructor: Graphic/interactive design
    Courses taught: Advanced Page Layout, Vector Graphics, Typography
  • Scholars Program, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, 2006-2010 (summers)
    Instructor to pre-college students aged 14-17
    Course taught: Graphic and Web Design
  • Nixon Peabody, LLP, Rochester, NY, 2006-2008
    Web Designer: Played key role in branding, designing, and implementing a Microsoft SharePoint-based intranet.
    Re-branding using CSS, HTML, XSLT and design software
    Created, maintained, and increased use of over 130 internal sites
    Designed internal web-site and email protocol
    Developed and presented multimedia/print publications
    Provided in-house technical support for web-based systems
  • Rochester Institute of Technology, Campus Connections Bookstore, 2003-2006
    Web designer: Re-designed online bookstore site
    Supervised art and supply department: sales, inventory control, customer service
Education
  • Rochester Institute of Technology, College of Imaging Arts and Sciences, Rochester, NY
    Masters of Fine Arts, Computer Graphics Design, May 2010
    Bachelor of Science (with honors), New Media Publishing, May 2006