COMPUTER/SOFTWARE SKILLS
- Photoshop
- InDesign
- Illustrator
- Dreamweaver
- Movable Type
- HTML
- CSS
- Google Analytics
- Search Engine Optimization
- basic Flash
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Powerpoint
- PC and Mac literate
LAYOUT & PRINT PRODUCTION
- Four years experience with magazine and catalog layout and design, pre-press file management and on-press quality control
- Redesigned Plenty Magazine with creative director
- Oversee quality and prepress of magazine ad artwork
- Involved in planning and brainstorming of UncommonGoods' catalog development
- Experience with managing catalog production process: Coordinated work schedules of photography, merchant and marketing departments, arranged onpress dates with Quad Graphics printers, and oversaw catalog paper purchasing
- Familiar with prepress and onpress aspects of million-plus copy print run of magazine and catalog
- Conducted 3 - 5 day long press runs at Quad Graphics printing facilities to oversee color and printing of UncommonGoods' catalogs
- Experience designing press kits, posters, corporate identity materials, advertisements, board games, logos and overall brand identity
WEBSITE DESIGN
- Five years experience as freelance web designer
- CSS, HTML, Dreamweaver and MovableType
- Search engine optimization and use of Google Analytics
- Involved in navigational design, visual design, building and managing websites
- Manage all web photos, online archives, daily blog updates, webpage updates and design and building of new webpages for Plentymag.com using Movable Type
- Responsibilities at UncommonGoods included updating homepage on weekly basis, designing and building new pages for the website, working with engineer to design visual aspects of new functions and dealing with graphics and photos for web
- Redesigned UncommonGoods e-newsletter. Increased sales through e-newsletterl three fold
- Manage and build Plenty's weekly e-newsletter
- Website design clients include: Smithsonian National Postal Museum, Cornell Univeristy Statler Hotel intranet, GreenerPenny.com, Plenty Magazine and artist Beth Ames Swartz
PHOTOGRAPHY SKILLS
- Photo retouching and editing for web and print
- Photo research/gathering for magazine
- Basic darkroom printing
- Familiar with various multimedia slideshow assembly programs
VIDEO PRODUCTION
- Non-linear (digital) video editing, Adobe Premiere
- Linear video editing
- Operational knowledge of video camera for ENG and EFP production
- Lighting and audio skills, interviewing skills, scene composition, voice-overs, shooting quality footage
- Created a 4 minute music video, four 1 1/2 minute news packages and two 30 second commercials for school project
