EDUCATION

Parsons School of Design  •  New York, NY
BFA January 2005, Major: Communication Design
Honors: Dean's List, Parsons BFA Scholarship

SKILLS

QuarkXPress, InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Acrobat, Distiller, ImageReady, ATM Deluxe, Extensis Suitcase, XHTML 1.0, CSS 2.1, BBEdit, Flash, FTP/Fetch, Word, Powerpoint, Outlook, Entourage, Excel, Mac/Win/Unix, POS terminals, comping, digital photography, proofreading

LANGUAGES

Fluent in English, proficient in French and German

EXPERIENCE

Ashley Baker Design  •  Louisville, KY
Graphic Designer, 5/06–present

Art directed, designed, and produced print and digital branding, marketing, and communication collateral for clients using Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, XHTML, CSS, and BBEdit

Smashlips Synthetic Dreadlocks  •  Louisville, KY
Entrepreneur, 8/02–present

Created custom, hand-made synthetic dreadlock extension hairpieces per customer specifications; designed and created hand-made LED-illuminated hair accessories; sold dread beads and all aforementioned items on self-designed, produced and maintained e-commerce website smashlips.com; handled all sourcing of materials, client communications, invoicing, bookkeeping, and packaging/shipping

Dillard's  •  Ridgeland, MS
Sunglasses Specialist/Counter Manager, 3/08–6/08

Secured sales and provided customer care via salesfloor; called clientele in promotion of sales events; merchandised, stocked, and recovered sunglasses counter; created, implemented, and maintained sunglasses back-stock organization system; assisted management with floor moves, trained new employees in product knowledge

Maris, West & Baker  •  Jackson, MS
Production Artist, 4/07–6/07

As temporary staff member, revised print ads per publication specs, reoriented layout live/trim/bleed areas, typeset copy in QuarkXPress and InDesign/revised art in Photoshop and Illustrator, created RFPs, designed logos and redesigned client collateral using QuarkXPress, InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop, proofread documents, produced low- and high-resolution PDFs for client approval using Distiller, comped direct mail and agency presentation material

Pier 1 Imports  •  Cincinnati, OH
Sales Associate, 10/06–2/07

As a product specialist, secured sales and provided customer service via phone and salesfloor, cashiered, fulfilled visual merchandising duties, processed stock, replenished salesfloor

West Elm  •  Brooklyn, NY
Sales Associate, 6/05–1/06

Closed sales by employing product knowledge, quick wit, and exemplary customer service via phone and salesfloor, maintained individually-assigned client book, prepared UPS and courier shipments, cashiered, replenished salesfloor, aided in hands-on training of new employees

PV&M Publishing Solutions  •  New York, NY
Intern, 6/04–8/04

Assisted Project Coordinator in compositing financial, technological, and medical textbooks—proofread and edited manuscripts in Word, coded Word documents with styles using XPress Tags, flowed tagged text into QuarkXPress layouts, utilized master pages, formatted tables, and performed fine typesetting in QuarkXPress, edited art in Illustrator and Photoshop, revised files to client approval, prepared completed projects for printing

EXHIBITIONS

Levi-Strauss  •  New York, NY
Dungarees to Degrees, 5/03

150th anniversary celebration of Levis 501 jeans