• Experience in using and training others to use Adobe Photoshop, ImageReady, Illustrator, InDesign, GoLive, Flash, Quark XPress, Word, Excel, Powerpoint and much more
  
• Mastery of HTML and CSS with competencies in Javascript, LUA and PHP
  
• Experience scripting utilities in Perl, Javascript and C++
  
• Highly skilled on Macintosh OS 9 and X, Windows Proficient
  
• Enthusiastic team player who works well with customers, coworkers and managers
  
• Successful at managing both large and small projects within concrete deadlines
  
• Motivated to expand skills, continue education and to try new things
  
• Easily adaptable to a wide range of tasks

// EXPERIENCE //
Project Manager, Smart Site, Saint Cloud, MN 2006 - Present
Responsibilities included:

• Overseeing projects from inception to completion while ensuring aggressive deadlines
  
• Coordinating the efforts of programmers, designers and customer-side content providers.
  
• Training clients in the use of proprietary software
  
• Developing marketing materials and overseeing campaigns
  
• Creating detailed documentation

Product Delivery Designer, LexisNexis, Saint Cloud, MN 2002 - 2006
Responsibilities included:

• Creation, design and maintenance of external and internal web sites
  
• Implementation of web-based information products utilizing enterprise component technology
  
• Management of FileMaker Pro databases
  
• Programming utility scripts in Perl, C++ and ECL

Graphic Artist, Rengel Printing, Saint Cloud, MN 2001 - 2002
Responsibilities included:

• Working with customers and account managers to design original products
  
• Managing projects from design through prepress
  
• Operation and maintenance of prepress and digital direct-to-film technology

Design and Development, ProductNetwork.com, Saint Cloud, MN 1999 - 2001
Responsibilities included:

• Three years cultivating an internet startup, experiencing nearly every position while training co-workers in an assortment of applications and tasks
  
• Design of user interfaces
  
• Copywriting
  
• Overseeing the publication of a biweekly E-mail newsletter
  
• Conception and design of advertising across multiple media
  
• Database management and data entry
  
• Managing customer service including order tracking and problem resolution
  
• Coordinating with suppliers and managing projects with employees in multiple departments

Graphic Artist, PlaidWorld Studios, Saint Cloud, MN 1998 - Present
Responsibilities include:

• Creating copy, HTML and graphical content for a wide variety of websites
  
• Coordinating press releases and additional marketing material
  
• Creation of game mechanics and original intellectual properties
  
• Designing user interfaces for games and websites
  
• Creating original game related art and scripting game behavior

Freelance Graphic Artist 1995 -1998

• 3 years as a successful Freelance Graphic Artist while working my way through College
  
• Assisted in teaching several courses and in the maintenance of Macintosh computer labs
  
• Wrote regular columns in college journals and local papers such as the Cold Spring Record

// FORMAL EDUCATION //

• Saint Cloud Technical College, Saint Cloud, MN
  2 Year Advertising Degree and 1 Year Advertising and Graphic Arts (later Printing and Imaging Technology) Degree