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Professional Profile
- Graphic Artist with more than six years experience in designing websites, marketing collateral, user interfaces, presentations, logos, icons and various graphics for client specific campaigns.
- Production artist with solid understanding of graphic optimization techniques to ensure fast page downloads without sacrificing image quality and clarity.
- Developer with experience in building and launching large-scale, template-based corporate sites, as well as designing web based applications.
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Technology Skills
Adobe® Photoshop, Illustrator, ImageReady, Acrobat, InDesign
Macromedia® Fireworks, Freehand, Flash, Dreamweaver
Microsoft® Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint)
HTML, CSS, (Hand-coded using BBEdit/Homesite)
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Work History
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Visual Designer
Server Technologies and Related Tools User Experience
Oracle Corporation |
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September, 2004 to Present |
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- Transitioned the icon set for JDeveloper, a declarative Java development environment, from the old style to the new, richer style with gradients and drop shadows.
- Completed icon requests for various product suites including Oracle Development Tools for Visual Studio .NET, Oracle Service Parts Planning, Enterprise Management, Enterprise Budgeting and Planning, Oracle Database Lite, to name a few.
- Instrumental in designing the User Interface Group's Icon Request Tool, a web application built on HTML DB.
- Constructed low fidelity and mid-fidelity page flows and page click throughs for new applications.
- Designed and produced the internal sites for the Oracle User Experience Conference and the Server Technologies User Experience Site. Produced pages for the outside-facing Oracle.com Technology Network page using dynamic menu controls
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Freelance Graphic Designer
San Francisco, CA |
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June, 2001 to Present |
Retained by diverse industry clients to create and maintain graphic layouts of marketing collateral, logos, content, tutorials and advertising banners. Use latest design software to produce graphics for client campaigns. Perform quality assurance and testing. Work closely with various senior and junior marketing, design and engineering executives to conceive, produce and launch websites that enhance company goals. |
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Recent clients:
- CITTIO - Provided User Interface refreshes for the company's premier web application. Designed icons, graphic banners and widgets for the company's main product. Implemented branding and identity guidelines for company's marketing collateral.
- Organic - Produced HTML/XML/JSP templates and created graphics for various projects: Washington Mutual, Microsoft, Williams-Sonoma, Virgin, Intuit TurboTax, and LEMO, among others. Conducted various graphic/HTML production, integration, and developer functions as needed.
- Onsite-Dental - Redesigned and re-architectured corporate site. Designed and produced images to match the client's ideal of a cleaner, more navigable site. Wrote stylesheets and created style guide for the entire site.
- Ensim - Redesigned the client's home page for visual clarity and cohesion through the use of photographs, white space and style sheets. Developed banners for their marketing partner sites. Converted diagrams into flexible formats for use in their site and for various presentations. Worked with the Marketing Department to standardize and prepare corporate datasheets for printing. Designed and produced ad banners, e-mail newsletters and supporting graphics for various campaigns. Performed various production and design duties as necessary.
- Shaklee - Developed Flash banners and tutorials for internal use. Transformed PowerPoint presentations into economical and downloadable PDF's. Researched and produced images for a home page refresh. Produced HTML templates for various product launches.
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Graphic Designer
Military Advantage, Inc. |
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August, 2002 to March, 2003 |
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- Designed and produced graphics and page templates for service-specific microsites.
- Redesigned company newsletters that have a subscription list of over 15,000 military service people.
- Developed animated ad banners, creative units and HTML templates for email campaigns.
- Tracked weekly marketing advertisements and generated click-through and impression spreadsheets.
- Produced HTML templates for various site updates.
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Documentation Coordinator,
Quality Assurance
Shaklee Corporation |
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March, 1994 to August, 1999 |
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- Acted as documentation/regulations advisor to coordinate various departments in developing international and domestic product releases.
- Managed and monitored complete documentation packages for nutritional, cosmetic, pharmaceutical and household product lines.
- Assisted scientists and engineers in the development of specifications for product, raw material and packaging components. Provided ideation/illustration support for domestic and international pharmaceutical specifications.
- Facilitated Shaklee's production process by coordinating multiple international and domestic departments to ensure timely delivery of sensitive pharmaceutical and process documents to the manufacturing plant and to contracted vendors.
- Collaborated with department heads, project managers, and other key personnel for completion of manufacturing books.
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