Jessica E. Barber

Mixed Media Artist/Printmaker represented by Twenty-Two Gallery.

-Creation and execution of dynamic designs for clients based on need and budget, including business cards, book covers and interior layouts, brochures, and other promotional collateral.
-Fine Artist in the fields of Mixed Media and Printmaking, with a history of solo and group exhibitions, primarily in the Greater Philadelphia area

Field-Based Market Research Interviewing

* Conduct interviews on behalf of various clients for market research purposes, many related to social sciences. Recent studies include marketing research surveys for University of Pennsylvania, Harvard School of Public Health, Public Health Management Corporation, Washington Post, ABC News, and others * Polished interviewing skills by talking to various respondents throughout the U.S. and Canada.

Optofluidics, Inc. is a venture-backed scientific instrumentation company named Philadelphia Life Sciences Startup of the Year in 2012. The firm commercializes proprietary nanotechnological devices to perform leading edge particle analysis and nanomanipulation applications for the life science and materials industries. As part of the Marketing team, I created visual and marketing/technical content for our promotional campaigns.

Responsible for acquisition of new accounts and maintaining and managing existing ones. * Clients included a range of both small businesses and corporate advertisers including Hyatt Regency at Penn's Landing, West Chester University, T.D. Bank, other Philadelphia businesses/organizations * Created promotional sections for various neighborhoods and demographics, including South Street West, Twentieth Street, Healthy Lifestyles Sections, and Rittenhouse Square Fine Arts Show issues. * Provided customer service to clients: redesigned new ads to keep their branding fresh and helped create and implement new marketing campaigns.

* Direct Sales and Marketing: Top producer provided business to business distribution. * Team Management: responsible for the motivating, mentoring, training and development of 5-20 distributors (depending on the size of the office) by providing sales techniques, theory, and hands-on training in an effort to create maximum production for the business. * Recruiting: responsible for conducting interviews on behalf of the company, instrumental in the staffing and training of new offices. * Event Coordination/External Affairs: Scheduled promotional sites of employees at major retail venues while maintaining positive relationships with the sites' store managers. * Ongoing Training/Networking: worked in offices of vice presidents, attended top trainer events and ownership/management conferences * Office/Administrative: Assisted Manager with minor accounting and financial "settle ups" of employees

* Created book covers and endsheets for clients after consultation * Worked with sales representatives to fulfill creative needs of their clients from original concept to completion. * Client consultation at various design workshops in Ohio, New York, and Pennsylvania. * Utilized Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, QuarkXPress, Adobe Pagemaker, and Macromedia Freehand for the creation of projects.

* Expanded knowledge of graphic design through the creation of brochures logos websites and other projects. Clients included Ricoh, Adams County National Bank, and Miller-Hanover Insurance

Telemarketing Research Interviewer Conducted Telephone Interviews * Surveys include a wide range of studies from residents' satisfaction with nursing home facilities utility providers magazines and alcoholic beverages. Silver Medal Award, Plastic Club Members' Medal Show, 2012 Honorable Mention, Plastic Club Members' Medal Show, 2008 First Place Black and White Ad/Restaurant, MidAtlantic Community Newspapers Association, 2007