Visual Communications, Computer Design and Photography
Influencing Skills • Helping Others Succeed • Effective Meetings: Tools & Techniques for Results • Project Management Fundamentals • Managing the Transition Between Staff and Supervisor • Seven Habits of Highly Effective People • Assertiveness Training for Women in Business • Effective Communication Thru Listening • Lotus Notes R5 Development • Macromedia Flash Fundamentals • Macromedia Director Fundamentals • Microsoft Softimage 3D Fundamentals
Illustrated products and designed layout for multiple direct mail catalogues, created marketing materials, handcrafted retail items and t-shirt designs for an Australian import store • Created promotional materials for local businesses, including four-color brochures, print advertisements, marketing posters and business identities • Worked through Mac Temps to provide art development and design for a variety of business including the Chicago Sun Times • Worked at The Strategy Group as Graphic Designer for the 1996 U.S. Presidential elections providing print based mailers and marking materials
Created a corporate Intranet using an array of web technologies and graphic packages • Created an animated promotional presentation and print materials to market Thin-Client Server Computing services • Conducted interviews and surveys to identify all associated users and stakeholder requirements • Technical Lead in the development of a high-level marketing Internet for the Computer Risk Management division of Arthur Andersen
Directed an interdisciplinary team in their daily activities to produce and maintain a corporate Intranet comprised of; web graphics, IT architecture, programming, customer support and user training • Developed standardized IT procedures, reports and checkpoints to monitor quality assurance • Helped to design and manage a user friendly, web enabled lotus database template to be used in the creation of service methodologies
Helped to attain and restore the web-based applications that were acquired as intellectual property when a division of Arthur Andersen regrouped as Protiviti under the umbrella of Robert Half • Responsible for developing the marketing web site: Protiviti.com from a one page brochure-style site to the more comprehensive version that is today • Developed a mirrored site in French for Protiviti's Paris office: Protviti.fr • Customized and maintained a number of Protiviti’s internal web-based resources • Created the graphical user interface of Protiviti's KnowledgeLeader subscription website
Created and managed an initiative that would augment the Crowe Chizek Sarbanes-Oxley Compliancy Services • Developed Microsoft Word forms and templates that would help their clients to maintain the Sarbanes-Oxley act regulations • Created training videos for a public accounting, consulting and technology firm
Created multiple websites for local businesses, check out - My Portfolio - for links to some of my most recent client websites • Created business identities, graphic packages and products for local companies and non for profit organizations • Designed direct mail circulers for a winning Circuit Court Judge in the 2020 election • Designed and painted multiple public scultptures for Elmhurst City Centre, see - My Portfolio - for details