Professional Summary
- Customer Service
- Graphic Design
- Leadership
- Project Management
- Special Events
- Technical Editing
- Web Design
- Webmaster
Technology Summary
Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Dreamweaver, Adobe Fireworks, Adobe ImageReady, Adobe PageMaker, Adobe Photoshop, Blackboard, CSS, HTML/XHTML, IE/Firefox/Netscape/Opera, Include Files, List Serve Management, Microsoft FrontPage, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows, Paint Shop Pro, PC/Mac, Templates, WebCT, Web-Based Tools, WordPerfect, and more.
Also familiar with Adobe Flash, Adobe Illustrator, Animation, ASP, JavaScript, Open Source Solutions, XML, and more.
Professional Experience
Web Designer
- Kraus Online, Manhattan, Illinois (2008-)
Adjunct Instructor, Joliet Junior College, Department of Computer Information and Office Systems, Joliet, Illinois (2006-2007)
- Taught Computer Basics, Introduction to Windows XP, and Introduction to Microsoft Excel.
Web Specialist, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Office of Admissions and Records, Information Technology Services, Urbana, Illinois (2004-2005)
- Served as the webmaster of the public website. Includes receiving and managing webmaster e-mail, performing day-to-day website maintenance, serving on the web advisory committee, evaluating website usage statistics, and assisting with the transition to a new web server.
- Provided web design services. Includes providing graphic design to retrofit the existing website design, developing new website content, conducting an inventory of existing website content, sharing in the conceptual development and planning of the website redesign, providing leadership for the website redesign project, and authoring new web page (XHTML) and Cascading Style Sheet prototypes for the redesign.
- Researched and evaluated technology and online marketing materials. Includes authoring tools for web accessibility, content management systems, user-specific brochures, and resources that were available at other universities.
- Received positive feedback from the staff of the Office of Admissions and Records on an Information Technology Services customer service survey.
Media/Communications Specialist, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, Urbana, Illinois (1997-2004)
- Served as the webmaster of the public website. Includes receiving and managing web contact e-mail, performing day-to-day website maintenance for the department and several related websites, serving on the web advisory committee, facilitating and assisting with the transition of multiple websites to a new web server, consulting about the public relations implications of web address changes, and creating an in-house display to announce the new web addresses.
- Provided web design services. Includes providing graphic design, redesigning websites, creating new website designs, developing and expanding website content, updating and replacing HTML, and creating and implementing Cascading Style Sheets, include files, and templates.
- Provided general communications, design, editorial, and information technology consultation and services. Includes providing planning and labor for special events, creating in-house displays, managing a list serve, providing technical support for WebCT, providing digital photography, consulting about marketing strategies, and providing technical editing and design for books, brochures, and reports.
- Served as the unit leader for the Campus Charitable Fund Drive and consistently achieved over 100 percent of the specified fund raising goals. Includes one year as the section leader for several unit leaders.
Media/Communications Specialist, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Water Resources Center, Urbana, Illinois (1997-2002)
- Served on the planning committee (1997-2002) and as the proceedings editor (1997, 1999, 2001) for the biennial Governor’s Conference on the Management of the Illinois River System.
- Assisted with the administration of the 1999 annual conference of the international Universities Council on Water Resources.
- Served on the planning committees of the Illinois Water ’98 conference and the First Pilot Watershed Program Workshop (1998). Includes providing administrative, design, editorial, and public relations services.
- Served as the editor of the Illinois Water Resources Center newsletter (1998).
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Human and Community Development, Urbana, Illinois (1995-1997)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Office of Student Financial Aid, Champaign, Illinois (1995)
Northwestern University, Office of Financial Aid, Evanston, Illinois (1992-1995)
Bancroft-Whitney Law Publisher, San Francisco, California (1991-1992)
Manpower Temporary Services, Joliet, Illinois, and San Francisco, California (1988-1991)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Illinois Foundation, Champaign, Illinois (1990)
One termination, for buget reasons only (Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics).
Education
Bachelor of Arts, English, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Professional development via information sessions, meetings, online coursework, and workshops. Includes Designing Universally Accessible Resources for the Web, Intensive Web Design, Desktop Publishing and Design, Information Security, Adobe Dreamweaver, Adobe Photoshop, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), Content Management Systems, XML, Cross-Cultural Communications, Regulations for International Students, and more.
Community
Champaign-Urbana Potters' Club, Champaign, Illinois (2001-2006)
More information and additional work samples are available upon request.