design isn't just about print or web, it's about a way of life.
education
The Art Institute of Seattle. Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honors, Graphic Design,
March 2008.
Willamette University. Bachelor of Arts Cum Laude, Religious Studies,
minor in Art Studio. May 2002.
skills
Familiar with: PCs and Mac; Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Flash, DreamWeaver, Adobe Captivate, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, CSS, HTML, IAB Guidelines.
related experience
March 2011-CURRENT, CDK Global, formerly ADP Cobalt. Web Designer, Owner Marketing. Focus on digital advertising, including display advertising and landing pages. Built templates for seasonal advertising and focused on custom advertising.
March 2011-February 2014 - Web Design Specialist, IFS Content. Web maintenance of automotive dealer sites, working from customer change requests.
February 2011-CURRENT, christychristine Designs. Owner, Freelance Designer.
February 2011-CURRENT, Ventana Construction. Website Maintenance. General maintenance and expansion of website to include more information, categories pages, and SEO refresh.
November 2014-CURRENT, International Youth Foundation. Duties include multi-page publication layouts, creating banners and posters for events.
September 2014-May 2015, St. John United Lutheran Church. Website refresh to WordPress for easier updating and cleaner layout. Expanded site from 5 pages to 20+.
April 2011-October 2012, Luther Memorial Lutheran Church. Website Maintenance. Duties include updating website weekly. Project also included website overhaul and logo refresh.
October 2010-March 2011, The Creative Group. Freelance Graphic Designer. Duties include website maintenance and image loading.
May 2008-January 2011, Banana Pages. Designer. Duties include company website design and database management, client advertising design, client website design and maintenance, in-house marketing, company advertising.
November 2008 - January 2011, Ventana Construction. Website Maintenance. Maintenance included redesigning recent projects pages to include specific areas and larger photos, updating homepage to include more information and user links.
February 2009, Jerome O Cohen, Attorney at Law. 8 page Website. Site included 8 pages of varying text and photos to promote the client. Its focus was on the client’s experience and services offered.
December 2009-August 2010, Microfinance Information Exchange. Duties include publication layouts of various lengths, creating banner images for www.spblog.org and MIX’s e-newsletter, and redesigns of country pages on www.mixmarket.org.
November 2009, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, poster design. This poster was for the SPAC Holiday Party. It included three designs that were to generate interest in the holiday party.
October 2009-February 2010, Spirit of the West Cowboy Gathering, Event Promotion. Duties included creating one-color screenprinted images for reusable bags, editing current Ads for multiple publications.
December 2006-April 2008, AMES International. Internship, Junior Designer. Duties include mockups of prototype packaging, preparing mechanicals for print, archiving past designs.