EDUCATION

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

SKILLS

InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Acrobat Pro, QuarkXPress, XHTML, CSS

EXPERIENCE

Smashlips Synthetic Dreadlocks  •  Louisville, KY
Entrepreneur, 8/02–9/12

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

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

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, logos, and client marketing collateral; proofread documents, created PDFs for client approval; comped direct mail and agency presentation material

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

Assisted Project Coordinator in compositing financial, technological, and medical textbooks for major publishers: coded manuscripts with XPress Tags; performed fine typesetting and critical advanced layout tasks in QuarkXPress

Dillard's  •  Ridgeland, MS
Sales Associate, 3/08–6/08

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

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