Coroflot

Resume

PROFILE
· Forward looking, creative professional with 7 years of experience in the publication and new media fields.
· Ensure that all online content is strategic, user-centered, targeted, engaging, and furthers web product and business unit goals.
· Background includes: Web content management; print and Web graphic design; blogging; podcasting; online marketing; Web art direction; and Web project management.
· Knowledge of open source technology –– specifically content management systems, database-driven web sites, Web 2.0, SEO, HTML, RSS, and CSS.
· An understanding of the software development lifecycle. Knowledge of information architecture, site navigation, information representation, and web site usability and design.


COMPUTER SKILLS
Macintosh, PC, Plone, PhotoShop, Illustrator, InDesign, QuarkXpress, Flash, Dreamweaver

URLs
· www.myecky.com: creative direction, art direction, content development, web graphic design, online marketing.
· www.a-nuidea.com: content development, creative direction, web graphic design, online marketing.
· www.foodandwaterwatch.org: content management, content development, art direction, web graphic design, online marketing, project management.
· www.takebackthetap.org: content management, content development, art direction, project management.


PROJECT HIGHLIGHTS
.01 - Present | Freelance
· Lisa G Salon – logo design
· Quality Design Solutions – web banner design
· OIC Design – print & identity design for design house
· Photos by Bousquets – logo design
· Skipping Stones Design – identity design for ad agency
· Creative Loafing – creative/production work for newspaper


.07 - .08 | Food & Water Watch | Washington, DC
Web Editor
· Update and maintain Web site content using content management system.
· Write, copyedit, and proofread all materials on site.
· Make recommendations for new content and changes while ensuring that content is both consistent and accurate. Oversee aesthetic and navigational efficiency of Web site.
· Monitor and evaluate Web site statistics and trends. Develop strategies for Search Engine Optimization.
· Manage all Web-related projects, including serving as liaison with all developers and technical contractors.
· Conceptualize, develop, execute, and maintain engaging content features that include web and email text, video, photos, the blog, podcasts, and user comments. Orchestrated the “I Heart Tap Water” video contest.
· Instrumental in featuring work in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Reuters, BusinessWeek and other major media outlets.


.03 - .06 | Library of Congress | Washington, DC
Web Graphic Designer
· Provide art direction and design layouts, visual elements, and graphic treatments based on site branding, user-centered layout principles, best practices, and aesthetic design concepts.
· Implement web design parameters and visual standards.
· Develop design proposals, storyboards, mockups, and wire frames.
· Responsible for day-to-day content creation, development, and implementation for interactive map and online product database using Dreamweaver, Illustrator and PhotoShop.
· Evaluate existing on-line layouts and provides suggestions/improvements as needed.
· Effectively work with editors and developers to provide effective interface design solutions for front-end technologies, including briefing books, various reports, web banners, and web-based email.
· Ensures message consistency and proofreads web content for proper grammar usage, typographical errors and content accuracy.
· Responsible for interviewing, oversight on selection and supervision of applicants and agency temps for positions within the graphics department.
·Ensure message consistency and proofread all materials on site.


Summer/Winter .03 | Library of Congress | Washington, DC
Web Editorial Assistant
· Copyedited and proofread online reports dealing with legal and public policy issues for Congressional Research Service.
· Assisted in the quality control maintenance of all electronic publications in the online system.
· Created graphics using Dreamweaver, Fireworks and PhotoShop, and maintained an image library of these files for use by the editors.
· Created PDF and HTML versions of each publication, and uploaded to FTP site.
· Authorized production runs for the Product Distribution Center.


EDUCATION
2002, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
M.F.A., Illustration / minor: Graphic Design

1993, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
B.A., Art History / minor: Graphic Design