Thank you for your interest in learning more about me and my qualifications. My name is Mary Smith. I am a web and graphic designer located between San Francisco and Silicon Valley, in Emerald Hills, California. I love the art of design and I love designing even more! I take pride in my work and enjoy paying attention to every detail.
Project, contract, or full time position involving web design, graphic design, animation or illustration where my design experience, artistic talent and collaborative work philosophy will be relied upon in exceeding project expectations.
CSS, Dreamweaver, Excel, Final Cut Pro, Fireworks, Flash (Actionscript), Freehand illustration, FrontPage, Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, PowerPoint, Word, XHTML.
December 2000 - Present. Projects include:
Growing Up Easier - Project management, web development and design. Logo design, cover design, interior manuscript formatting and epub development.
Hamaguchi And Associates - Large volume custom illustration and asset creation.
St. Matthias Catholic Community - Custom illustration and banner design.
Ambient Media - website and logo design, CD packaging design, banner ads and marketing collateral.
Accelerated Solutions Environment - Graphics facilitator for problem solving sessions. Web, logo, asset design, print media, powerpoint and flash presentations, flash intros, freehand and digital illustration, video product creation under intense deadlines, environmental design and event planning and marketing collateral conception and design.
Pulsar Sound - Flash banner ad design.
Papa Murphy's Inc. - May 1998 - November 2000
Conceptualized, designed, and preflight POP, advertisements, logos, and
illustration. Managed high volume workflow for California graphics department.
Praised by Franchisees for "saving the day.... creating great looking
ads during last minute time crunches." Implemented use of ftp servers
for file transfer resulting in lower department spending and higher productivity.
Consulted department for Mac OS support and troubleshooting. Promoted
to Graphic Design Manager. Supervised workflow through the four graphics
departments. Initiated creation and use of template ads in graphics departments
resulting in national ad consistency and more effective marketing campaigns.
Designed corporate identity packages for 1999 and 2000 conventions. Maintained
outstanding rating in annual job performance reviews.
Institution for Reading Development - January - April 1998. (Seasonal
position)
Produced direct mail marketing and fliers. Prepped for output. Adjusted
logo files. Created and maintained client file database.