OBJECTIVE:

Assist a Marketing or Creative Services organization in developing effective PowerPoint projects both on time and within budget - all with a positive attitude and a good sense of humor.

QUALIFICATIONS:

Extensive and progressive experience in developing business graphics solutions. Consistently demonstrating resourcefulness, adaptability and composure under pressure and tight deadlines. Experienced on Mac and PC platforms.

Areas of expertise:

• Business graphics savvy
• PowerPoint template design
• PowerPoint animation
• B&W optimization for slide printouts
• Photoshop image manipulation and compositing
• Brand management
• Interpreting need

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

Freelance PowerPoint/Graphics Production Specialist

2001 - Present

Contracting through placement agencies and personal contacts.

Clients include:

• Abbott/Guidant
• Agilent Technologies
• Bytemobile
• Cisco
• Database Marketing Solutions
• Integrated Flow Systems
• Intuit
• Palomar Ventures
• The Phelon Group
• Siemens
• Visa

Logictier, Inc.

2000 - 2001

Initially responsible for all corporate presentations. Then transitioned into Web development by maintaining PR section of corporate Internet site and then maintaining all other sections of site in addition to the corporate Intranet site as a member of the Media Resources Team.

Accomplishments:

• Development of PowerPoint graphics, template design and animations for corporate investor presentation played a significant part in securing first round investment funding
• Established online libraries for corporate presentations and logos
• Established look-and-feel for corporate presentations
• Created Intranet site to track development of new product
• Used a combination of hand coding and Dreamweaver to assist in the redesign of the corporate Intranet by converting dozens of pages with disparate coding and styles to uniform look-and-feel
• Created interactive online forms using PHP code
• Created HTML mockups from functional specs for JSP implementation

Freelance PowerPoint/Graphics Production Specialist, and Web Developer

1999 - 2000

Contracting through Aquent Partners placement agency and personal contacts.

Clients:

• Intuit (PowerPoint)
• Kanisa, Inc. (PowerPoint, Photoshop, and HTML mockups for ASP)
• LogicTier, Inc. (PowerPoint and Photoshop)
• Riffage.com (PowerPoint and Photoshop)

Silicon Graphics, Inc.

1990 - 1999

Managed multimedia, computer image and Web-based projects for top executives, product managers and others throughout the company, worldwide, by applying artistic and technical skills to produce and direct the production of deliverables. Provided on-site assistance at live events in terms of editing and "driving" the presentations for the speakers. Evangelized the corporate brand and consistent look-and-feel.

Accomplishments:

• Raised quality of presentations within the company
• Assisted in development of curriculum for and teaching of internal course on UNIX-based presentation software application and basic Unix "survival skills"
• Created over 400 speaker support presentations that met or exceeded the requirements of a variety of time restrictions, presenting environments and presenters' styles while keeping a consistent corporate look-and-feel
• Trained and art directed 13 artists
• Using hand coding, built or played a significant role in the building and maintenance of several internal Web sites and resource pages
• Learned and excelled at over 10 applications including presentation software, image manipulation, and A/V editing on Mac, PC and Unix platforms

Genigraphics Experience

1981 - 1990

Created speaker support 35mm slides using Genigraphics hardware and software applications. Developed and performed software demonstrations. Collaborated with Multimedia Producer on multiprojector slide productions. Mastered Genigraphics' image manipulation software. As Production Manager, on-time deliveries increased from 75% to 99% over an eight month period through enhanced resource planning and better employee moral.

EDUCATION:

Chosen by Aquent Partners placement service to be among 24 individuals from throughout the United States and Sydney, Australia, to complete a 2-week intensive training course in Web Development.

University of California Extension, Cupertino, CA:

West Texas State University, Canyon, TX:

University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX:

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