Parsons School of Design • New York, NY
BFA January 2005, Major: Communication Design
Honors: Dean's List, Parsons BFA Scholarship
InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Acrobat Pro, QuarkXPress, XHTML, CSS
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