Professional Profile
Award-winning work as a designer and writer, experience managing print and web projects from start to finish, and outstanding conceptual and strategic thinking skills position me to provide effective visual communications solutions. I think deeply about each project’s communication objectives and each client’s competitive environment, and strive to execute designs that integrate form and function.
Work Experience
Mar 2008–Present
Web Designer
Center for History and New Media,
George Mason University
- Design content-heavy education and history-related websites driven by an open-source CMS
- Collaborate with front-end php developers
- Create wireframes, mood boards, and site maps.
- Design print collateral and ads in support of CHNM projects
Dec 2003–Mar 2008
Freelance/contract designer
Aquent, Profiles, various freelance clients
- Designed print collateral, ads, brochures, and posters
- Designed and coded html email and web pages, created web graphics
- Created Flash and animated gif ad banners
Jan 1999–Dec 2003
Designer/Art Director
Crabtree + Company Falls Church, VA
- Designed and developed websites and e-newsletters, and graphics for interactive exhibit kiosks
- Concepted and coded interactive activities for a science-for-kids website
- Concepted, designed, and produced full range of print materials, including brochures, posters, annual reports, and newsletters.
- Concepted, designed, and executed logos and identity systems.
July 1997–Dec 1998
Designer
Meadows Design Office Washington, DC
- Designed print materials from concept to production
1983–1995
Writing/editing Experience
- Director of Publications & Information Services | Association of Science-Technology Centers Washington, DC
- Assistant Editor | Chronicle of Higher Education Washington, DC
- Associate Editor | JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association Chicago
- Writer/Researcher | Museum of Science and Industry Chicago
Technical Skills
Advanced, 5 years
XHTML & CSS
Hand coding in Textmate, CSS Edit; also conversant in Dreamweaver.
Beginner, 1+ year
jQuery/php
Can research jquery plug-ins and functions, customize and adapt for use in websites. Can understand and work with php written by front-end developers.
Intermediate, 1+ year
Wordpress
Familiar with WP themes, plug-ins, widgets, and custom php.
Expert, 5–10 years
Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Quark
Expert user of design applications and all aspects of print pre-press production.
Expert, 20+ years
Writing, copyediting, and proofreading.
Training and award-winning experience writing about science, medicine, and social science for a wide variety of audiences.
Recognitions
- Printing & Graphic Communications Association: Best of Category, Home Page Design 2003
- Creative Network invitational logo show: McKissack & McKissack, Capital Children’s Museum logos 2002
- Art Directors Club/DC Annual Shows: Carnegie Institution of Washington Just for Kids website 2001
- Websites of the week for education and history professionals: Virtual exhibit Photographing History
- Art Directors Club/DC Annual Show: P&GCA PrintWeek 2000 dinner invitation and program 2001
- Advertising Club/DC Addy Annual Show Merit Award: Capital Children’s Museum logo and stationery 2001
- Society for Technical Communications Award of Distinction: NIH “Medicines for You” brochure 2001
Education
1996 – 1997
Virginia Commonwealth University
Communication Arts
Studied graphic design for 4 semesters pursuant to career change.
1979 – 1983
Cornell University
M.A., Ph.D., Sociology (magna cum laude)
Focus areas in sociology of mass media and sociology of science.