Resume

Education

The Art Institute of California - Silicon Valley, Sunnyvale, CA Mission College, Santa Clara, CA (Magna Cum Laude)
Brooks College, Sunnyvale, CA

Professional Experience

Web Developer

• Coding webpages and stylesheets for large ecommerce site
• Implementing jQuery and interactive elements
• Photo manipulation to make images web ready

Gruber Painting
Elite Recruiting Films
The Trendy Rose
Albatros Recording Studios
Dr. Dominguez Dental Safeguard Carpet Cleaners Graphic Designer

• Designed and produced marketing materials, brochures, datasheets, direct mailing pieces, print ads, and white papers
• Designed large format graphics, tradeshow banners and panels
• Redesigned website and designed web graphics
• Logo design
• Cleanly laid out content heavy information into limited formats
• Beautifully edited/manipulated photos of heavy equipment
• Successfully developed a file naming convention adopted by team members and supervisors

Operation Specialist for the Book Search Project

• Beta tested and provided valuable user feedback aiding in the development of a proprietary tool used in the books project
• Authored training manual for the aforementioned tool
• Utilized critical thinking and problem solving skills to address and fix a variety of user and publisher complaints
• Skillfully drew upon knowledge of design programs to edit and repair images for public use on the Book Search and Google Maps projects
• Created color palette for Google Images project
• Managed and tracked specialized issues from start to completion with a small team of specialists

Graphic Designer/Production Artist

• Designed marketing materials, billing inserts, billing envelopes, ads, brochures, flyers, proposal covers, labels, and business cards
• Administrative duties

Graphic Designer/Production Artist

• Designed and produced marketing materials, postcards, mailers, brochures, ads, catalogue covers, tradeshow banners and panels
• Designed, produced, and updated websites and Flash animations
• Aided in planning of tradeshow booth setups
• Designed internal online archive as well as client secure pages
• Successfully coordinated with vendors and clients to produce completed projects
• Administrative duties and accounting

Graphic Designer/Production Artist

• Formatted/prepped client files for printing
• Replicated client logos
• Recreated client documents
• Sorted and bound publications

Career Services Assistant

• Designed marketing collateral such as fliers, posters, tent signs, name tags, and sign-in sheets for on campus job recruiters
• Redesigned resumes for alumni and current students
• Designed print materials for Hot Careers Panels, Job Fairs and Community Services Fairs
• Designed/Produced online Alumni Hot Jobs Newsletter
• Redesigned Job Board/Internship Board
• Provided administrative support
• Trained new Career Services Assistant