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Contract- Web Graphic Designer; Indiana Department of Education (IDOE) via Brooksource Staffing; Indianapolis, IN; September – December 2008

Technical Work

• Web interaction\usability design – UI design and HTML implementation
• Integration of CSS and (X)HTML design layout with several small .Net applications
• Work collaboratively with Management, Developers, Content providers and Marketing/Communications
• Indiana Standards and Resources database styling:
• http://dc.doe.in.gov/Standards/AcademicStandards/index.shtml
• Wire-framing administrative back-end of Indiana Standards and Resources database for a development team

User Interface Design (UI)“Bug Squasher”; Authorhouse/Inkubook via Beacon Hill Technologies Staffing; Indianapolis, IN; Dates: March 2008

Technical Work

• Assisted in resolving UI defects, including but not limited to: Cross-browser issues, visual defects and bugs in the Inkubook.com website
• Worked quickly and independently with the Lead UI Designer to meet aggressive schedules

Visual Communications Department
Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana; Indianapolis, IN
Dates: August 2001 – July 2007

Instructional Work

• Taught courses in web design (HTML, slicing, Cascading Style Sheets, basic animation), 2-dimensional design and color theory, digital- imaging and photography, drawing, vector illustration and typography

Technical Work

• Departmental Macintosh guru and platform advocate – I was the only faculty member who switched my main desktop system to Macintosh and upon my arrival at the school in 2001 one of my top priorities was to add a Macintosh-based teaching lab for the Graphic Design curriculum
• Spring 2005 re-designed the departmental website from a framed site to a design using HTML and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) (archive viewable here:
  Old Retired Viscomm Website)
• Researched appropriate software and hardware needs for the program and provided this information to the Computer Technology Services (CTS) director for procurement
• Coordinated with and assisted the desktop administrators in lab hardware and software
  configurations, and trouble-shooting
• Assisted program faculty and students to solve hardware, software and related technical issues, and directed them to CTS when necessary

Administrative Work

• Supervised and mentored departmental faculty in curriculum and professional development
• Organized and directed departmental adjunct faculty in curriculum delivery
• Oversaw and guided part-time computer lab assistants and work-study students in lab maintenance and provided assistance to program students and faculty
• Identified annual departmental budgetary needs and wrote necessary requisitions
• Planned course content and descriptions, revised degrees and their requirements and planned for new degrees and their requirements as a member of the college state-wide curriculum committee
• Developed dual-credit agreements with area high schools to allow college credit for specific high school courses
• Arranged and gave presentations on the program’s degree concentrations during Campus
  Preview Day, Technology Day and on visits to area high schools
• Counseled students and faculty regarding their home computer and software needs
• Provide student advising and career counseling

Center for Instructional Materials and Computing (CIMC)
University of Wisconsin – Madison
Dates: December 1997 – August 2001

Instructional Work

• Taught iMovie and Dreamweaver workshops to faculty and graduate students in the School of Education
• Provided consultation for faculty, staff and students on educational and professional multimedia projects
• Trained and provided technical support for elementary and middle school teachers
  learning digital video editing and web development as part of an education grant, which was awarded to the CIMC for the purpose of providing equipment and training teachers
• Trained computer lab assistants to aid CIMC patrons with computing needs
• Trained library staff in digital image and video editing and web page maintenance

Technical Work

• Assessed needs, then selected, purchased, set up, tested, did trouble-shooting, and updated hardware and software for CIMC- Computer Lab, Classrooms and Circulation-Media areas
• Wrote scripts for automatic computer software installation and maintenance

Administrative Work

• Led the CIMC Web Team in website production and maintenance
• Hired, scheduled and trained CIMC student computer lab assistants
• Scheduled classrooms and publicly available computers and specialty equipment
• Served on search committees for CIMC graduate program assistants and full-time library staff
• Authored annual Instructional Laboratory Modernization grants (1998- 2001)

Computing Consultant (overlapping part-time positions)
New Media Center (NMC) and Biology New Media Center (BNMC)
University of Wisconsin – Madison
Dates: January 1997 – November 1997

Instructional Work

• Presented an introduction to Macromedia Director 5.0 software during the Learning Technology and Distance Education Colloquium (BNMC, Summer of 1997)
• Provided consultation and assistance to enable university faculty, staff and students to learn the suite of available multimedia software and equipment (NMC/BNMC)

Technical Work

• Installed and did trouble-shooting of center’s hardware, software and peripherals (NMC/BNMC)

Student Lab assistant (part-time position)
School of Education Computer Lab
University of Wisconsin – Madison
Dates: September 1996 – May 1997

Instructional Work

• Presented a workshop on Adobe Illustrator Basics (Fall 1996) and Digital Video/Animated Gif’s (Spring 1997)

Technical Work

• Assisted faculty, staff and students with hardware, software and printing tasks in the computer lab

Art Instructor, Display Advisor, and Sales Consultant
Southeastern Minnesota Visual Artists’ (SEMVA) Gallery (a coop gallery)
SEMVA – Rochester, MN
Dates: September 1992 – December 1994

Instructional Work

• Taught adult and teenage students fine art, including drawing, painting and mixed-media techniques.

Technical Work

• Constructed and arranged the physical structure of the SEMVA Gallery and hung and took down shows and artwork

Administrative/Sales Work

• Collaborated with the gallery committee to plan exhibits in the SEMVA Gallery
• Acted as a gallery sales consultant for all gallery members

Art Instructor (part-time)
Rochester Community Education
City of Rochester – Rochester, MN
Dates: September 1992 – February 1993

Instructional Work

• Taught adults color design and acrylic painting techniques

Art Apprentice (financial grant funded position)
Saint Olaf College Art Department
Saint Olaf College – Northfield, MN
Dates: September 1990 – December 1990

Instructional Work

• Critiqued and gave technical advice to students in oil painting, drawing, sculpture and ceramics

Technical Work

• Planned and produced a new body of oil paintings and gave a public exhibition of the new works

Adobe Dream Team Digital Video Contest – Second Prize Winner (Student Category)
Date: Spring 1997
Description: Free professional software of my choosing was awarded
Provider: Adobe Systems Incorporated

Apprenticeship Financial Grant
Date: 1990
Description: Financial grant, art studio, supplies and exhibition provided
Provider: Saint Olaf College Art Department

Departmental Distinction in Studio Art
Date: 1990
Description: Grade point average deemed departmental distinction
Provider: Saint Olaf College Art Department

Art Apprenticeship (painting) with Art Department Faculty- Professor Wendell Arneson
Dates: September – December 1990
Where: Saint Olaf College; Northfield, Minnesota

Intensive German Language/Culture Study
Dates: February- April 1988
Where: University of Paderborn- Germany

German language studies with topics in Art History, History and Philosophy
Dates: April- August 1988
Where: University of Konstanz- Germany