graphic/website/freelance design
OVER 10 YEARS EXPERIENCE
Assistant Webmaster, Graphic Artist, and Freelance Multimedia Designer. 
Experience includes creating, layout, designing, proofing and maintaining: websites, icons, backgrounds, site maps, calendars, logos, bus benches, stationery Flyers, business cards, album covers, CD cases, posters and meeting deadlines. Produce branded audio and visual materials for clients. Responsibilities include: contacting prospects, arranging appointments, creating presentations, answering clients questions, rebutting objections, making suggestions, closing sales and meeting deadlines. Work extensively with customers assessing goals, solving problems in order to ensure complete satisfaction and repeat business. Creative, artistic flair and am capable of conceptualizing and designing interesting eye catching advertising copy. Extremely attentive to detail.
computers/technology
OVER 13 YEARS EXPERIENCE
Experience with IBM and Macintosh computers. Excellent working knowledge of Web/Print Design, Illustration, Photography etc. Software knowledge: Microsoft Office, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Access, Lotus Notes/Outlook, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Quark/In Design, Flash, Photoshop, Illustrator and utilizing the Internet. Write technical web content as well as promotional materials, develop new language acquisition formats. Frequently called upon by students and staff members to diagnose, troubleshoot and solve computer problems with resources at hand. Designed and taught HTML classes for web teams. Able to make complex technical directives easily understandable to end users.
international
SPEAK CONVERSATIONAL SPANISH, PORTUGUESE, AND FRENCH
Traveled internationally for non profit organization, arranging public speaking events outlining community forums and explaining political, public and human rights to communities throughout Nicaragua. Experience teaching international government ministers MS projects and Access, as part of a World Bank program. Currently researching, designing and producing sound tracks for global school systems to assist in language classrooms.
administration
OVER 10 YEARS EXPERIENCE
Progressively more responsible experience in administrative positions. Excellent interpersonal relations, communications, organizational and time management skills. Able to handle multiple tasks simultaneously often under pressured circumstances and coordinating projects for maximum efficiency. Responsibilities included: taking minutes, writing correspondence, composing, drafting and editing succinct, effective, grammatically correct letters and memos. Scheduling and coordinating conferences, meetings and making international travel arrangements, generating expense reports, inventory control, payroll, ordering and preparing products and materials. Instituting and conducting office procedures e.g. filing, faxing and answering multiple phone lines. Excellent interpersonal, communications and organizational skills. Excellent keyboarding skills, type 80-90 WPM.
professional experience
IN DESIGN, PRODUCTION, ADMINISTRATION, AND ART
Freelance Designer: Multimedia Graphic/Sound Design
Minneapolis, Minnesota
2/2000-Present
Administrative Assistant: Walden University
Minneapolis, Minnesota
12/2004-11/2006
Language CD Producer: Urban Vagabond
Minneapolis, Minnesota
1/2004-Present
www.urbanvagabond.com
Production Artist: Meirovitz & Company (now defunct)
Minneapolis, Minnesota
9/2000-5/2002
Assistant Webmaster/Graphic Designer: The Brookings Institution
Washington, DC
4/1998-1/2000
Course Assistant: Academy for Educational Development
Washington, D.C.
10/1997-1/1998
Computer Consultant: Academic Technologies & Networks
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
9/1993-5/1997
education/specialized training
IN DESIGN, PRODUCTION, ADMINISTRATION, AND ART
Graphic Design Certification, George Washington University (Washington. DC) 8/2000
Digital Media Marketing Certification, New York University (New York, New York) 8/2007
B.A., International Studies. University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill, NC) 1997