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EMPLOYMENT HISTORY: |
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Freelance PowerPoint/Graphics Production Specialist
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2001 - Present |
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Contracting through High Tech Connect placement agency 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
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Logictier, Inc. |
2000 - 2001 |
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Positions: Freelance PowerPoint/Graphics Production Specialist, and Web Developer |
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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
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Freelance PowerPoint/Graphics Production Specialist, and Web Developer |
1999 - 2000 |
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Contracting through Aquent 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)
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Silicon Graphics, Inc. | 1990 - 1999 |
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Positions: Freelance Presentation/Graphics Specialist, Sr. Artist, and Art Director |
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- 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
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Genigraphics Experience | 1981 - 1990 |
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Employers: Genigraphics, Inc., Media West, Inc., and Freelance |
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Position: Presentation Specialist, Shift Leader, and Production Manager |
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- 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.
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