4571 Ridgeland Drive, Lilburn, Georgia 30047
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Objective:
- I am seeking a position that would allow me to utilize the full range of
skills I have in WWW/HTML programming and production graphics and creative
writing
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Summary:
- 7 years experience creating and maintaining a web site in addition to my
home page. A detail-oriented, high-energy professional with the ability
to get the job done, under high-pressure, deadline settings. Extensive computer
experience on Windows XP, 98 and NT, as well as on Macintosh systems using
Windows Office, Lotus Notes, Adobe Acrobat, Dreamweaver. Driven by the knowledge
that customer satisfaction drives the marketplace. I am proficient with
Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, ImageReady, InDesign, PageMaker. Quark Xpress,
Trial-Director.
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Education:
- Certified in: Providing Information on the Internet and World Wide
Web, and
Obtaining and Using Information from the Internet and World Wide Web
(1996)
Georgia
Tech Center for New Media Continuing Education
- Master of Arts, (English Literature), August, 1992
University of Georgia,
Athens, Ga
- Bachelor of Science, (Physics), June, 1988
Georgia Institute of
Technology, Atlanta, Ga
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Publications:
Employment:
- J. E. Richards Middle School, Lawrenceville, Ga
August 2002 - January 2005
6th Grade Language Arts Teacher
- co-authored and prepared Curriculum Quality Improvement (CQI)
materials and assessments
- co-authored the 2nd quarter final exam
- digitized documents and tests for department
- Brandon Hall School, Atlanta, Ga
August 2001 - August 2002
High School Teacher
- taught a tutorial pre-college Algebra class
- taught tutorial and small class size English classes (sophomore
and senior levels)
- supervised and prepared the Brandon Hall Yearbook
- networked Macintosh computers onto the existing network
- Legal-eze Graphics, Inc., Atlanta, Ga
February 2001 - present
Graphic Artist
- production graphics work
- hi-res scanning and image manipulation/color correction
- designing litigation graphics
- mounting presentation graphics for litigation cases
- Prismatech
Prepress, Atlanta, Ga
June 1998 - December 2000
Production Graphic Artist
- production graphics work
- hi-res scanning and image manipulation/color correction
- prepress work on magazines (Business to Business and
Catalyst), advertising and product displays
- troubleshooting Macintosh TCP/IP network
- MacTemps, Atlanta, Ga
February 1998 - June 1998
Production Graphic Artist
- production graphics work building newsletters for The Salvation
Army and direct mailers for Weight Watchers at a direct mailing
advertising firm in Atlanta
- BellSouth
Advertising & Publishing, Tucker, Ga
February, 1994 - February 1998
Directory Artist
- responsible for recreating / designing customer's logos and
typesetting display ads for the yellow pages
- maintained high production - up to 20 ads a day
- special project: designed and tested the new company-wide Art
Test to be given to all new employees in the directory composer/artist
position
- attended quality training seminar
- special project: translating documents received by modem and
on disks into documents for use with BAPCO's proprietary software
- overall increase in production over the past three years
- completed training classes in Quality Improvement, Adobe Photoshop
3.0, Adobe Illustrator 6.0, Adobe Dimensions 2.0
- Superior Temporaries, Atlanta, Ga
April, 1993 - February, 1994
Administrative Assistant
- data entry on IBM and Macintosh systems
- responsible for updating records and maintaining Macintosh
computers for a small construction company ultimately increasing
company efficiency and allowing for a 20 percent reduction of
staff
- all contracts completed with high recommendations
- UES University, Asahikawa Campus, Asahikawa, Japan
October, 1992 - March, 1993
Teacher
- Teacher of English as a Second Language, Composition, and English
& American Literature
- sponsor and editor of the school drama production, co-sponsor
of the student magazine and the student newspaper
- designed the hypercard transcript program for the school records
- of the 25 graduating students, 8 have attended American College,
and another 6 were enrolled in Japanese colleges
- Athens Magazine, Athens, Ga
May, 1992 - October, 1992
Advertising Composition Supervisor
- organized and tracked the flow of ads as they were received
and built, increasing the efficiency of the process and the
size of the magazine
- managed the transfer of computer ads to the printer
- created magazine ads
- Athens Banner-Herald / Daily News, Athens, Ga
April, 1989 - May, 1992
Ad Paste-up Artist
- built ads for the newspaper
- ad markup person: proof read ad copy and coordinated transfer
of ads from the ad-reps to copysetters and camera operators
- designed newspaper ads
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Other Skills
- software knowledge: Macintosh; Adobe Pagemaker 6.5, Quark Express
4.1, Adobe Illustrator 8.0, Photoshop 5.5, Acrobat and Acrobat Distiller
4.0, Macromedia Freehand 8.0, Painter 5.0, DeBabelizer 1.6.5, SoundEdit
16, Microsoft Word, WordPerfect 3.5, Hypercard 2.0, IBM; Lotus 123,
Microsoft Word, WordPerfect 6.0, Adobe Pagemaker 6.5, Adobe Photoshop
5.5, Corel and Corel Draw
- maintain a monthly listing of poetry & spoken word events in
the Atlanta area the Atlanta's Calendar of
the Spoken Word
- Photographer: publicity shots for Sensurround Stagings, Solstice
Repertory, and Dad's Garage (for the plays "Briar Patch,"
"Oh Happy Day," and "Dracula")
- Light Technician at Dad's
Garage Theatre and Sensurrond
Stagings (most recently running the lights for "Viva Los
Alamos," " 8 1/2 x 11," "Action Movie: the Play,"
"Briar Patch," "Grand Guignol: Theatre of Blood,"
and "Oh Happy Day"
- writer for the "24-Hour Plays"
- Sound Technician for "24-Hour Plays"
- hosted an evening of story telling once a month, with proceeds going
to help beautify Grant Park
- contribute monthly to several poetry readings
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