My experience includes, web design and production, WordPress development, document production and management, presentation graphics, digital imaging, print production, and signage, as well as PA and admin. work in Film/Video. I am also a life-long musician and have been training Capoeira (Brazilian Martial Art) for 3 years.
I am currently on the web standards team at Oracle USA, Inc. working on their public web properties. You can view some of the work I’ve done for these companies in the portfolio section. I stay current by attending various groups devoted to Web Standards, Photoshop, and WordPress Development.
Experience
Front End Web Developer
October 2011 – Present
Oracle USA, Inc. – Redwood Shores, CA
www.oracle.com
- Front End Web Developer for Oracle.com and conference websites
Freelance Designer / Production Artist (see web portfolio for examples)
January 2008 – October 2011
Industries: Non-profit, Private Aviation, Photography
Companies worked for in this period include JetDirect Aviation, Advancing Ideas LLC and Wayfarer Aviation.
- Custom Wordpress Development
- CSS/XHTML
- HTML Email Design
Marketing Services Coordinator
October 2004 – December 2007
TAG Aviation – Burlingame, CA
www.tagaviation.com
- Acting web master: Content updates, producing new elements (banners, pages, etc…), implementing structural changes (navigation/layout) either myself, in conjunction with IT, or communicating closely with IT to insure the integrity of the changes
- Communicating with outside web design and print production vendors on company requirements
- Providing input and advice on new website strategies/designs
- HTML email design, development, and production (using empulse through SalesLogix)
- Extensive image editing and manipulation/correction for public website
- Extensive image editing and manipulation/correction, as well as layout for new suite of corporate service brochures
- Providing technical assistance company-wide on a range of business, graphic, web and research applications on an ongoing basis
- Organizing digital photo assets
- Creating templates for and conforming Legal Documents and aircraft Spec Sheets
- Tracking accuracy and updates for external website advertisement listings
- Cataloguing and invoicing print advertising
- Capturing contact data for aircraft transactions
- Preparing cost breakdowns for specific marketing campaigns (mailings)
- Graphic Asset Management: Compiled and preserved Visual Identity Assets as an ongoing project and organize legacy assets
Freelance Web Designer (see web portfolio for examples)
January 2002 – October 2004
Conference Coordinator/Production Assistant
February 1999 – January 2002
Aaron Marcus and Associates – Emeryville, CA
www.amanda.com
- Managed company conference appearances: Including coordinating travel arrangements for conference attendees, preparing and tracking tutorial proposals, preparing PowerPoint handouts and slides (for attendees and presenters), and insuring there were no scheduling conflicts
- Redesigned, standardized, and managed company PowerPoint presentation template
- Produced complicated company MS Word reports, and enforced template standards
- Maintained and updated company website, Intranet, and client Extranet(s) on an ongoing basis
- Redesigned news and services (tutorials) sections of company website in an effort to assist company’s marketing efforts
- Prepared typography and color guidelines, HTML formatting, and screen prototypes for various client design projects as needed
- Documented, prepared, and edited user experience seminar videos using a digital video camera and Apple iMovie software
- Digitally photographed white board schematics for archiving
Additional Experience
- Video Production and Film/Video Archive internships
- Office Management
Education
B.A. – Cultural Studies, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA.
(Courses in HDFS – Cornell University; Courses in Liberal Arts – SUNY Albany)
(Courses at BAVC, CEA, SFSUMSP, UC Berkeley Extension, Future Light Digital Workshops)
Professional Associations
San Francisco PhotoShop User Group
East Bay and San Francisco WordPress Meetups