Web Design:
- Ten years of experience in maintaining company web sites, overseeing the day to day web operations, ensuring quality, reliability and performance.
- Four years of experience in designing standards compliant web sites, providing design, functionality and content
- Experience in supervising photo shoots for web sites and online store
- Excellent communication skills and project management skills
Graphic Design:
- Three years experience with catalog, pamphlet and POS design
SKILLS
Excellent computer skills proficient in:
- Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Image Ready, Dreamweaver, Front Page, Contribute, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Outlook
Working knowledge of:
- Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Acrobat Pro, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint
SYNOPISIS OF ACHIEVEMENTS
- Created more than 20 websites for various customers, providing many with the tools to edit their own sites.
- Developed online stores.
- Responsible for starting bi-monthly mailing of an e-newsletter, distributed to over 7,000 members, providing product awareness and, introducing new products and giving consumers the opportunity for feedback.
- Was proactive in creating an FTP website for customers to download images for catalogs and brochures, providing sales support, increasing customer satisfaction by 100% and saving over $1,000 a year in overnight shipping costs.
- Worked with Marketing Department to create recipe books, selecting recipes, making foods and assisting in photo shoots
- Made displays and signs for the Clabber Girl Museum inTerre haute.
WORK HISTORY
1993 to Present - Hulman & Company/Clabber Girl Corporation
2008 - 2009 - Marketing Support Specialist
2004 to 2008 - Web Administrator, Historian, Graphic Design Assistance
Web Administration – provide web site design, structure and function, create new websites as needed, keep web content fresh, work with Delisheries customers requiring help with file downloads on ftp site; work with salesmen to provide pdf sales literature to their customers; also responsible for creating sub-websites for new products.
Historian – answer consumer questions regarding the history of our products and company; supervise interns to archive historical data, documents are articles; work with Indiana State University to provide Visions and Voices online database with a variety of Clabber Girl’s historical photos and museum displays.
Graphic Design Assistance – Design small POS for export and edit catalogs as needed for customers.
2000 to 2004 - Graphic Design, Web support and Historian –
Web support - maintained website content, and worked with a design firm to make the second website in 2002, then in 2004 helped create the third website design.
Graphic Design – made POS and pamphlets as well as catalogs for Delisheries products.
Historian – gathered and chronicled history for the Clabber Girl Museum, and created displays, working with many different professionals to provide content and present information to the public.
1993 to 2000 - Secretary to the Vice President of Hulman & Company
Duties: Correspondence, new customer set up, maintaining filing system both geographically and alphabetically, unsaleables and customer credits, processed customer orders both domestically and internationally. Worked with advertising firm to make the first Clabber Girl website in 1996.
EDUCATION
Sawyer Secretarial School, Hammond, Indiana – Secretarial Degree 1977
CIW Foundations, CIW E-Commerce – Lantech, Indianapolis, IN - 2002
Front Page 1 and Front Page 2 - 2002
Dreamweaver 1 and Dreamweaver 2 – New Horizons, Indianapolis, IN 2003
Javascript fundamentals – New Horizons, Indianapolis, IN 2004
Photoshop beginning to advanced 1996 to present
Illustrator fundamentals 2005
Presently attending St. mary of the Woods college through the WED program to receive my degree in Digial Media Communications. Graduation in 2010.