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e-mail:
sarah@sarahlance.com |
| O B J E C T I V E | Senior Web and Graphic Designer with marketing and interface design background available to provide off-site content design and development for Web sites and software applications. |
S K I L L S S U M M A R Y |
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| Sr.
Web Designer, Webmaster Flash Designer |
Team player available for off-site or part-time contracts. Webmaster with creative, technical and marketing experience. Graphic designer and web programmer for Distinctive Talent human resources search and placement firm. Webmaster and Web designer for Pipinelles, a restaurant. Senior Web Designer and webmaster for Enliven.com and MatchLogic.com (now defunct), two business units of Excite@Home. Managed Web site re-design using Macromedia Flash Generator, managed team of art director and interactive programmer, marketing writer. Collected stats using Web Trends. Created marketing microsites. Collaborated with programmer and product manager to create interactive online ad gallery for Enliven. Optimized Enliven Web site using Meta tags. |
| Icon Designer, Graphic Artist | Designed
icons & splash screens for Lotus Notes, Video for Notes, Notes Document
Imaging, Lotus 123 version 5.0, CC:Mail Mobile, Organizer, SmartSuite 3.0. |
| GUI Designer |
GUI design artist for PictureTel Live Videoconferencing software for Windows 95. Web site design artist for Fidelity Investments. |
| Award-Winning Designer | Designer
of award-winning interactive video graphics, and contributor to award-winning
software for Lotus and PictureTel. |
| Graphics Creation Tools |
Proficiency in: Macromedia Flash 4.0 and 5.0, Fireworks,
Dreamweaver and Freehand; Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, LiveMotion, GoLive,
PageMaker and Premiere; Allaire Homesite; Microsoft PowerPoint; Fractal
Painter; Paintbrush; HTML, DHTML, CSS, Animated & GIF
Creation; Digital Photography, browser compatibility, JavaScript. |
| Telecommuting Capability | Equipped with
multiple computers running Windows, multimedia software creation tools,
high bandwidth. Home office includes laser and color printers, hi-resolution
scanner, and
Sony
digital
and video
camera, sound gear. |
E X P E R I E N C E |
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| Distinctive Talent, Inc. | Lexington,
MA June 2004 – May 2005 |
| Contract Web Designer | Consulted on the design of a first generation Web site for a human resources search and placement firm. Met with business owner to discover business needs. Brainstormed ideas, presented design comps, collaborated on site structure, designed and programed site. Use of Macromedia Fireworks, CSS, HTML, Photoshop. |
| Traxit, Inc. | Littleton,
MA October – November 2001 |
| Contract Web Designer | Contract
to update the look and feel of a support Web site, and preserve and maintain
code to support next release of software. Updated splash screens and icons,
designed and developed (with a third-party developer) an e-commerce system. |
| Enliven, Inc. | Waltham,
MA May 1998 – August 2001 |
| Sr. Web Designer, Webmaster, Flash Designer |
Web site manager for Narrative Communications Corp., rich media interactive advertising start-up which was later acquired by Excite@Home, and subsequently spun off to become Enliven, Inc. (sold in May 2002 to Unicast). Provided web design for multiple corporate clients. Project managed site re-design and development for both Enliven (interactive online advertising) and MatchLogic (digital marketing solutions). Brainstormed web content development strategy with corporate clients, created site prototypes. Performed continual site content updates to multiple sites such as press releases, marketing materials and product release information. Redesign of MatchLogic's web site used Flash Generator with data-driven page content. MatchLogic's Corporate web site was featured on the Macromedia showcase in the Fall of 2000. Formatted documents into HTML and Flash templates. Monitored web site statistics. Trained other web site developers to manage sites. Created several Web site sales lead databases using SQL 7.0 database software and provided daily review and disbursement of web leads through Excel spreadsheet. Created graphics and animations for various content pages. Generated and published .pdf files and provided a variety of other materials, such as software executables and documentation which was downloadable by customers. Designed and produced navigation bars, buttons, icons and graphics for screen design elements for customer Extranet. Developed new interactive online rich media gallery for Enliven. |
| Digital Equipment Corporation | Littleton,
MA February, 1998 – May 1998 |
| Contract Icon Designer | Designed sets of icons for various windows software systems. Met with usability testing teams to help provide graphics solutions for various software interfaces. Contributed design direction to developers of web-based network control system. |
| HPR, Inc. | Cambridge,
MA January, 1998 |
| Contract Icon Designer | Designed sets of icons for various windows software systems. Met with usability testing teams to help provide graphics solutions for various software interfaces. Contributed design direction to developers of web-based network control system. |
| Platinum Solutions | Burlington,
MA August, 1997 – December, 1997 |
| Contract
Software Interface Designer |
Created icons and bitmaps for windows application software being developed for web design workgroups. Worked with developers to create icons for the interface, gif animation. Consulted on design ideas for icons and bitmaps. |
| Aspen Technology | Cambridge,
MA November, 1997 – January, 1998 |
| Contract Icon Designer | Designed icons for chemical simulation software for Windows platform. Created numerous bitmaps and icons using the Microsoft Visual C++ environment. |
| Fidelity Investments | Boston,
MA August, 1996 – July, 1997 |
| Contract Web Site Designer | Designed Web site and graphics for the Human Interface Design group. Extensive use of Photoshop to create graphics & html page creation using Netscape Navigator Gold. Periodic updates to web site content. Designed and consulted on web pages for internal use, including new company intranet design template. Converted a GUI style guide from a Windows help file to an online Web site. Designed icons and graphics for many Windows based financial applications. |
| E D U C A T I O N |
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| Major
in Studio Art; Drawing Minor in French & Spanish |
Bachelor
of Arts Degree BARD COLLEGE, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. |
| R E F E R E N C E S |
A V A I L A B L E U P O N R E Q U E S T |