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work experience

  • Web Administrator, Alumnae and Alumnae of Vassar College
    Poughkeepsie, NY, September 2004 - current
     
    • Redesigned and developed new alumnae/i association websites (www.aavc.vassar.edu, launched December 2005), with global navigation and integrated "look and feel" with third-party web products
       
    • Manage and update large, complex alumnae/i websites, including third-party web products; code web applications that dynamically output web pages drawing information from Filemaker databases
       
    • Maintain and upgrade web server computer and server software (Mac OS X Server), including third-party web application and database software (Witango and Filemaker)
       
  • Independent Website Design
    Italy & New York, May 2003 – August 2004
     
    • Created a new "look and feel" and user interface for members’ only section of website (now merged with Context | Rome) of Rome-based cultural organization, A.C. Scala Reale; developed all navigation menus (drop-down, rollover) in Fireworks; created templates and built prototype site pages using Dreamweaver
       
    • Meshed prior interior page designs with recently revised home page to create a unified, award-winning site-wide "look and feel" for Spring 2004 issue of travel writing ezine (www.wildwritingwomen.com/zine/issue/spring_2004/); re-worked all internal navigation and content layout (Winner of Best Online Travel Magazine 2004, awarded by North American Travel Journalists Association; winner of 2005 Lowell Thomas Gold Prize by the Society of American Travel Writers)
       
    • Redesigned, developed and updated this portfolio website using Dreamweaver, Fireworks and Photoshop
       
  • Attorney, Collette & Erickson LLP
    San Francisco, CA, August 2002 – January 2003 (short-term contract)
     
  • Visual Designer, DigitalThink, Inc.
    San Francisco, CA, July 2000 – April 2002
     
    • Led, coordinated and managed worldwide production teams in efficient and effective manner for design and development of online learning courseware
       
    • Consistently brought online learning projects to completion on or ahead of schedule, despite client delays
       
    • Performed in-depth design reviews of graphic production work, ensuring consistency and quality of interactive Flash animations and graphics
       
    • Designed and developed animations and graphics for online learning courseware, using Flash, Photoshop, Fireworks and Illustrator
       
  • Web Design Intern, DigitalThink, Inc.
    San Francisco, CA, Spring 2000
     
    • Developed animations and other graphics-based interactive elements using Flash, Photoshop, Illustrator and Fireworks for internet-based educational course
       
    • Learned and used proprietary tools together with HTML coding skills to process course modules and test functionality
       
  • Independent Website Design
    San Francisco, CA, January 2000 – January 2001
     
    • Designed and hand-coded (HTML, JavaScript and CSS) first professional/personal website (see portions of site in portfolio section) using BBEdit to showcase information design skills and technical web design abilities
       
    • Created special event website that achieved clients' objective of providing extensive information in simple yet elegant fashion; performed extensive image editing and optimization in addition to hand-coding entire site in BBEdit
       
  • Attorney, Collette & Erickson LLP
    San Francisco, CA, March 1994 - August 1999
     
  • Attorney, Chadbourne & Parke LLP
    New York, NY, September 1991 - December 1993

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