Freelance Web/Graphic Designer
Dallas, TX/Portland, ME, 1998-present

• Currently designing and creating marketing materials, Web sites and print collateral for various small businesses and educational organizations, including The USM Stonecoast MFA program, the NAACP Portland Branch and the South Portland Public Library
• Interned at the Portland Museum of Art (January-April 2004), designing marketing materials and print collateral in accordance with Museum identity standards
• Other clients include The Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture, SoftVac, IVPcare and Voyager Learning

• Responsible for concept design and layout of USM’s annual visual arts and literature journal, including design and production of 120-page book; creation of promotional materials; management of relationships with printers; review and editing of one-color and four-color proofs; ensuring adherence to style guidelines; design, production and maintenance of Web site; and supervision and mentoring of junior staff

• Led user-centered, iterative approach to gathering business requirements, developing communications and marketing strategies, and defining the user experience in the context of brand; conducted information gathering interviews to determine user needs, goals and requirements; authored audience analysis portion of “discovery” phase documents, including user profiles and scenarios, task flows, site maps, schematics and wireframes; worked with vendors, creative leads and technical team to implement site information structure, interface design and navigation schemes; edited and oversaw the writing of copy
• Projects: TXU Connect (lead IA responsible for development of a global intranet portal using Hummingbird content management software); Land Rover (lead IA on Freelander launch site); CITGO.com (supporting IA assisting with usability testing) and CITGO MarketNet redesign (lead IA responsible for redesign of vendor extranet), CPAServe (lead IA responsible for design of public site and task flow of interactive site-builder application), 3M ESPE (supporting IA tasked with updating site map and schematics), 3M Unitek (supporting IA responsible for developing accounting task flows

English/ESL Teacher
Irving High School, Irving, TX, August 2002-June 2003
Crockett Middle School, Irving, TX October 1998-June 2000

• Taught tenth-grade English and Level 1 ESL to at-risk and economically
  disadvantaged student population; served as instructor for Project Impact, an after-school enrichment program.
• Taught English, reading and science (including computer literacy) to recent immigrants, grades 6-8; authored innovative curriculum materials designed to facilitate language acquisition through oral dialogue and role playing, written exercises and computer applications-based assignments; led team initiative that resulted in an increase in the promotion rate, and subsequent mainstreaming, of ESL students from 76% to 88%; elected to Campus Improvement Committee by school faculty.

• Interdisciplinary program with courses in mathematics, the history of science, American political history, Western philosophy and Ancient Greek

• Courses in American and British literature, narrative theory and literary criticism

• Visio, Photoshop, InDesign, CSS, HTML, Illustrator, PageMaker, Dreamweaver, PowerPoint and other Microsoft Office applications

• Portuguese and Spanish

• Fine arts photographer specializing in abstract portraiture of built environments

• Group photographic exhibition, sponsored by and held at the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture, December 2001-April 2002

• Group photographic exhibition sponsored by the Dallas Historical Society, Hall of State Gallery, June 2000-June 2001; Dallas City Hall, presently installed

• Group photographic exhibition, sponsored by and held at the Great State Fair of Texas, September-October 2001

• Group photographic exhibition, sponsored by the Great State Fair of Texas, held at Cathedral Dallas, September-October 2000

• Annual exhibit of selected student work, May 1989