## BIO
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Senior designer with management skills. Excels at bridging the gap between creative and technology groups to produce functional products with wide appeal. Innovative. Ability to create opportunity by tasking unconventional aspects of projects. Personal interest is in design, project management, and finding new ways to make emerging technologies accessible to the public.
**Experience:**
**Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP**
Los Angeles, CA (February 2007 – present)
**Multi-Media Designer**
• redesign of print brand image for firm.
• production of all print materials to represent firm publicly - client reports, tribute journals, public press ads, etc.
**Pancreatic Cancer Action Network**
El Segundo, CA (May 2006 – February 2007)
**Designer**
• Launch online fundraising system using BlackBaud NetCommunity software. Project management & support of 13 events of which online fundraising module yielded approx. $255,000 in first four months of use. (Online income averaged 30% of each event’s gross profit)
• Production of web & print materials for yearly Pancreatic Cancer Month Awareness Campaign which yielded a 38% increase in site traffic during the month of November 2006.
• Re-design & re-launch of PanCAN store which resulted in a 4% increase in traffic
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**Investors Business Daily**
Los Angeles, CA (Nov 2005 – April 2006)
**Designer**
• Conception & production of creative on Open Access campaign for [login to view URL] sponsored by AT&T which increased traffic to site by 30% during promotion and garnered a pool of 24,000 new potential customer contacts
• Rebranding of Advertising Sales Department’s brand identity
• Working as part of creative team to increase brand awareness of IBD’s products, both in print and online
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**Southern California Edison**
Los Angeles, CA (May 2005 – Oct 2005)
**Web Project Manager**
• Restructuring of sections to improve user experience, resulting in a 10% increase in positive customer feedback
• Streamlining of company stylesheet to reduce typos and extraneous code
• Coordination with vendors to ensure scheduling adherence
• Daily maintenance of present company site for both English and Spanish – speaking customers
• Development of interface for Real Dialog application
• working with team to troubleshoot cross-platform functionality, specifically Mac-centric issues
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**PureGels, a division of SoftGel Technologies, Inc**
Los Angeles, CA (Jun 2003 – April 2005)
**Art Director**
• Direction, project management & vendor coordination to re-launch of consumer division of SoftGel Technologies, Inc. Result was an increase in distribution from 154 stores in one regional chain to over 1200 stores in three store chains in the Western U.S. and two online resellers.
**Designer, SoftGel Technologies, Inc**
• conceptualization & art direction of print campaigns which drove a sales push to increase profit margin for products by an average of 25%.
• design, development & project management of [login to view URL] to increase site traffic 20%
• development & streamlining of departmental standard operating procedures
• implementation of departmental archiving system
• coordination of print schedules
• planning of departmental work load and employee distribution
**EFilms**
Los Angeles, CA (Feb 2003 - Jun 2003)
**Film Restoration**
• Digital restoration and clarification of film in the post-production process utilizing Dust
**Ajilon Services**
Los Angeles, CA (Oct 2002 - Feb 2003)
**Administrative Assistant, Compliance Division**
**Meditech, Inc**
Norwood, MA (Jan 2002 - Aug 2002)
**Applications Specialist**
**Amerisports Fitness & Wellness Center**
Derry, NH (Mar 1998 - Aug 2002)
**Administrative Assistant to the General Manager**
**Texas Instruments**
Manchester, NH (Jan 1998 - October 2001)
**Reliability Technician**
**Aavid Thermal Products**
Manchester, NH (Nov 1997 - Jan 1999)
**Quality Control Technician**
**Education:**
**Notre Dame College** Manchester, NH (May 2002)
**Bachelor of Fine Arts - Graphic Design** |
## Area of Expertise
**Skill Set:**
**Design:**
• Photoshop
• Illustrator
• InDesign
• Flash
• Fireworks
• Dreamweaver
• Microsoft CMS
**Programming:**
• HTML
• XHTML
• CSS
• Javascript **Miscellaneous:**
• Word
• Excel
• PowerPoint
• Access
