Skills

Work History

User Interface Designer/System Developer
Myers Internet/MGIC
October 2007 - Present. User Interface work and/or design input on all our web-based applications -- mostly improving existing interfaces. Project planning and brainstorming, troubleshooting application issues, coding and image creation, and generally being a voice for the client during the planning phase. Includes work on AgentCenter, OriginatorNetwork, Defender, eMagic, MtgLoanApp.com and internal administration sites.
Web Development Specialist
OnYourMark, LLC
November 2004 - October 2007. Responsible for creation of websites, including graphic design, programming, customer service and technical support, desktop publishing, search engine optimization and registration, all general webmastering, and documentation.
Freelance
Self-employed
October 2003 - November 2004. Took a year to do freelance projects and transition into web development from print design. I'd been doing some web design before this, but I spent this year really learning what I was doing and expanding my skills to include web programming, not just design.
Production Coordinator
The Milwaukee Employment Guide/Trader Publishing
May 2002 - October 2003. Responsible for anything production related in the office, which included layout of our products, The Employment Guide, Today's Careers and Today's Nurse, of the media kit, in-house use forms, etc, in a timely and accurate fashion. Supervised one graphic designer.
Design Specialist
The Plymouth Review
January 1999 - April 2002. Created display ads for the paper and designed print projects, created logos for customers, made corrections and did layout projects for print customers, assisted in troubleshooting pagination process, created graphics as necessary, handled email duties for the Advertising department (including sending and receiving of ads and figuring out ways around format incompatibilities), computer maintenance and troubleshooting, hand collated sections of the paper twice a week, trained new people in our design process, often answered computer problems in other departments, occasionally responsible for outputting paginated pages to film for the press.

Education

Double Bachelor's in Classical Philology and Studio Art from Beloit College, 1997

Other Experience