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EDUCATION

University of Minnesota Duluth
Major: Graphic Design  Minors: Photography, Art History
Dean’s List of Academic Excellence
Awarded FinnFest Scholarship 2011-2012

Lake Superior College
Associate of Arts, 2007
Major: Liberal Arts


RELATED EXPERIENCE

Front-End Web Developer, Folio Investing
2012 to 2015
  • Updated older pages of website with HTML5 and CSS3.
  • Implemented Bootstrap.
  • Worked with the marketing team on print and web advertisements.
  • Collaborated with development team on the function of certain pages.
  • Made regular updates to website, such as Careers and Newsroom pages.
  • Worked with QA and Java developers on testing and troubleshooting existing and new features.
Web Designer & Developer, Self-Employed
2000 to Present 
  • Discussed and collaborated with clients about their website needs. Organized their ideas and presented solutions for their concerns.
  • Designed websites as well as branding and advertising materials.
  • Coded websites using clean HTML and CSS.
  • Customized WordPress templates.
  • Animated banner ads and slideshows.
  • Maintained devoted clientele for 10 years.
Senior Designer, Faster Solutions, Inc.
2004-2010 
  • Created websites from concept to launch.
  • Guided a team of three designers to build according to web standards and using clean, valid HTML and CSS, resulting in a high-quality product that is faster to maintain.
  • Streamlined the design and development processes, resulting in better work completed in half the time.
  • Trained two Print Designers to utilize their skills for Web Design.
  • Restructured a website consisting of several dozen sections, subsections, and their subsequent pages.


RELATED SKILLS

HTML5, CSS3, User Experience, User Interface Design, WordPress, Photography
Adobe Suite: Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Illustrator, InDesign, Flash
Eclipse, Tortoise SVN, Outlook, Thunderbird, Word, Excel


PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

Member of AIGA

 

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