Professional

Five Colleges, Incorporated, Amherst, MA
Graphic Designer
1999 (ongoing)
Sole designer creating and producing publications and marketing materials, and updating and maintaining website for the Five College consortium office. Duties include directing projects from concept through printing while coordinating with an editor, photographers, proofreaders, print representatives, and service bureaus. Projects vary from scheduled publications (including a bi-annual magazine), to various marketing pieces, posters, novelty items, and websites.

October Night (formerly WindChime Group), Greenfield, MA
Cofounder & Graphic Designer
1998 (ongoing)
Freelance graphic design and illustration for print and new media.

Babson College, Wellesley, MA
Multimedia Designer
10/96-3/98
Created web-based interfaces, digital video, interactive applications and presentations, print materials, collateral design, and illustration for administration, faculty, students, and the institution as a whole.

Worcester Publishing Ltd., Worcester, MA
Assistant Art Director, Worcester Business Journal, Hartford Business Journal, Worcester Magazine
Senior Designer, Advertising Dept.
Art Director, Website
10/92-10/96

As Assistant Art Director: Designed pages and covers, laid out ads and features, produced mechanicals, scheduled and directed photo shoots, proofed bluelines, chromes, and rainbow prints for error, designed symbols and logos, designed and illustrated marketing pieces for the company, copyedited and proofread.

As Senior Designer: Designed spot ads for publications, taught coworkers new applications and ways to digitally enhance raster and vector images, scanned and digitally corrected photographs, shot photostats, maintained font and digital clipart libraries.

As Art Director: Collaborated with Webmaster to layout the site, and designed graphics, pages, and typography for first design of website.

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Freelance

Citizen Planner Training Collaborative, Amherst, MA
Brochure design.

UMass Amherst Department of Music and Dance, Amherst, MA
Viewbook design.

Altshuller Institute for TRIZ Studies, Worcester, MA
Newsletter design, logo design, advertising design, website design and maitenance, and consultation.

Technical Innovation Center, Inc., Worcester, MA
Design of three books, logo design, advertising design, and graphics consultation.

Five College Learning in Retirement, Amherst, MA
Brochure design

Silver Screen Design, Greenfield, MA
Illustration for posters, t-shirts, and promotional materials used to advertise events at colleges across the U.S.

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Internships

D.R. Pollard & Assoc., Arlington, VA
1/91-3/92
Paste-up and layout of Smithsonian Magazine.

Business Digest of Central Massachusetts, Worcester, MA
5/89-8/89
Designed and produced spot ads, layed out and pasted up publications after setting type with phototypesetter, created traditional camera-ready mechanicals.

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Education

Corcoran School of Art, Washington, DC
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design, 1992

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Awards and Membership

Dean's Scholarship, Corcoran School of Art, 1988.

Student show, drawing chosen for exhibition,
Corcoran School of Art, 1989.

NEPA (New England Press Association), regional first-place award for best design of a special section, 1996.

Professional Organizations: Not currently participating in organizations at this time.

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