Resume

Education

School of Visual Arts
Masters of Fine Arts, Interaction Design
Waitlisted for Fall 2010 enrollment

New York University
Bachelor of Arts, May 2004
Major: Linguistics / Minors: Computer Science and Math, and Africana Studies

Lycée Français de New York
High School Diploma, June 2000
Education in French geared towards receiving an International Baccalaureate Degree
Major: Math and Sciences

Experience

Interbrand Corporation / brandchannel.com
Web Designer and Global Knowledge Manager, Sept ‘04 – present
SITES: interbrand.com, brandchannel.com, ourfishbowl.com

  • Designed layouts and orchestrated front-end functionality for all sites
  • Hand coded all CSS and HTML templates for new design of interbrand.com, launched in Fall 2008, and brandchannel.com, an online magazine, launched in Fall 2009
  • One third of the team that envisioned and constructed the new interbrand.com from scratch
  • Edited and built Flash/ActionScript 3 pieces based on files from our offsite freelancer
  • Designed and produced e-newsletters distributed to more than 128,000 registered subscribers
  • Assumed manager’s responsibilities while she was on maternity leave; took on additional duties and supervised a design freelancer
  • Webmaster for Interbrand’s intranet, ourfishbowl.com
  • Solely managed and built the Program Management sub-site
  • Earned a Knowledge Management Award in ’06 for responsiveness to inquiries
  • Co-managed a network of knowledge managers from more than 30 international offices
  • Provided support and follow-up to inquiries regarding archived material. international contacts, and other important information streams
  • Created images for illustrations of articles published in brandchannel.com
  • Performed research and wrote copy for the brandcameo (film reviews) section of brandchannel.com
  • Maintained social media accounts and cultivated social network communities

Samaritan Services Inc.
Contract Web Designer and Developer, Oct ‘08 – Dec ‘08
SITE: samaritanservices.com (project was abandoned due to client-side conflicts)

  • Refreshed the look and feel of the site and created a cleaner information architecture
  • Built the new site from scratch with table-less CSS

Eric Foster Media
Web Designer / WordPress Hacker, April ‘07 – March ‘08
SITES: charlesdeveaux.com, ivelaw.com, thehandonline.com

  • Designed the interface and created the information architecture of personal websites for clients
  • Build websites by customizing WordPress themes using CSS, PHP, JavaScript, XHTML

NYU Medical School | Online Services
Junior Web Developer (internship), May ‘03 – Aug. ‘04
SITE: med.nyu.edu

  • Created, populated, and updated over 2,000 webpages in HTML, DHTML, JavaScript
  • Completed editing requests for quality assurance
  • Advised in the redesign of website templates launched in Fall 2004
  • Designed, created, and edited graphics for the web in Photoshop – also performed research
  • Earned compliments for extremely quick and accurate work

NYU Department of Linguistics
Personal Asst. / Research Asst. to Dr. Renée Blake, professor and sociolinguist, Jan. ‘03 – Jan ‘04

  • Assisted in class preparation and research analysis on Bajan Creole and African American English language varieties
  • Transcribed audio interviews
  • Redesigned and built her website, as a favor and for fun!