Experience

Education Technology Specialist—Title III Grant Program
Phillips Community College—Oct 2005 to Present
Research, purchase, install, and train faculty and staff on new educational technologies for PCC’s Title III “Strengthening Institutions” grant. Create faculty/staff training center. Review and implement best-practice strategies for remedial math and reading courses. Consult with faculty regarding needs of PCC students. Consult with technology vendors for review and purchase of applicable education technology hardware and software.

Communications Manager
Arkansas Science & Technology Authority—Feb 2002 to Aug 2003
Managed all ASTA media including website, press releases, public relations, branding & marketing and general publicity. Worked closely with academic administrators, officials in government, educators, press agencies, and business entrepreneurs.

Information Design Specialist
University of Arkansas at Little Rock College of Business Administration—July 2001 to Dec 2001
Created comprehensive print and web branding campaign for UALR-CBA and its departments. Managed complete redesign of college website. Designed and published newsletters and advertisements. Worked individually with faculty and administrative staff and in committees for selection of most effective branding campaign.

Graphic Design and Web Development Specialist
Arkansas Small Business Development Center [ASBDC]—July 1999 to June 2001
Created branding campaign for ASBDC including logo and web redesign. Served as in-house graphic, web and print design specialist for all ASBDC publication needs including 2000 Annual Report, large-scale trade show displays, brochures, advertisements, newsletters, mass-mailings, and web banner ads. Designed custom web pages for small business clients in the ASBDC’s Internet Incubator Program. Held frequent conferences with individual clients to assess their web-based marketing needs.

Intranet Content Management Intern
ALLTEL Media Services Internship—Aug 1998 to July 1999
Managed the research and dissemination of daily news for ALLTEL’s intranet as an intern through the UALR Department of Rhetoric and Writing.

Custom Graphics Department Manager
Arkansas Flag & Banner—Feb 1998 to June 1998
Designed custom graphics for screenprinted banners, vinyl banners and cloth flag patterns. Managed department inventory and production schedules. Supervised department employees and customer order fulfillment.

Webmaster
UALR Forum—Jan 1997 to May 1998
Designed website for UALR Forum—the university’s student-run weekly newspaper. Managed web content including import of all news items from print version to web.

Education

University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Bachelor of Arts, Liberal Arts—August 2000
Major emphases in Technical Writing and Graphic Design
Minor emphases in German and Philosophy

Projects

ASTA's Information Technology Career Pathways Manual
Created an interactive guide for Arkansas students planning their career pathways from high school into Information Technology fields. Used Macromedia Flash to develop a digital manual as an on-line and CD-ROM-based version of the original printed manual written and compiled by Dr. John W. Ahlen, ASTA President.

ASTA's STUART Grant
Coordinated the implementation of the STUART grant program to purchase classroom participation systems, projectors and a laptop computers for Arkansas teachers in grades 5 through 8. Evaluated and selected interactive classroom participation software and hardware for the grant program. Created informational advertisement campaign about the program.

ASTA's Mini-grant
Evaluated schools for eligibility for the ASTA Mini-grant—a program to provide funds to Arkansas public middle school teachers to purchase consumable materials for student hands-on experiences in science. Created informational advertisement campaign about the program.

ASBDC's Internet Incubator Program
Designed custom e-commerce websites for thirteen participating ASBDC clients. Consulted directly with small business entrepreneurs through conferences, training sessions and on-site visits to best serve their personal needs in online representation.

ASBDC's 2000 Annual Report
Designed and produced annual report including page layout, custom graphics, staff portrait photographs and on-site client photographs.

ASBDC and UALR-CBA Branding Campaigns
Managed comprehensive and cohesive branding campaigns including complete website redesign, logo design, promotional material production, trade show booth design. Worked closely with college faculty and administrative staff to choose the most effective branding strategies for ASBDC and UALR-CBA.

ASBDC Training Instructor
Taught “Wed Design for Small Businesses” and “Understanding Powerpoint” training courses to small business clients.

Print Advertisement
Created numerous newspaper and magazine advertisements for ASBDC, UALR-CBA and ASTA. Advertisements appeared in Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Arkansas Times, Arkansas Business and various other publications.

The V.I.E.W. Guide
Served as design editor and a writing contributor for The V.I.E.W. Guide, a publication for the UALR Department of Rhetoric and Writing. This guide was later used as a class reference text for Technical Writing classes at UALR.

Teaching in Europe
Taught English as a second language in Bulgaria and Czech Republic in 1994 through Students for Central and Eastern Europe—a non-profit, student led organization through Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., dedicated to the expansion of English as a language for economic development in post-Soviet central and eastern Europe. Conducted classes in conversational English and grammar for students in all grades from elementary school to high school. Led classes and activities at summer language camps for middle and high school-aged students.

Proficiencies

APPLICATION

• Adobe Photoshop
• Adobe Illustrator
• Adobe PageMaker/InDesign
• Adobe GoLive
• MacroMedia Flash
• MacroMedia Dreamweaver
• SMART Notebook
• Microsoft Office
• Microsoft FrontPage
• Quark Express
• Web CT

SKILL

• Wacom Graphics Tablet
• Desktop Publishing
• Four-Color Process Printing
• Spot Color Printing
• SMART Board Design
• Computer/Web-based Learning and Testing Stystems

LANGUAGE

• HTML/CSS
• DHTML
• JavaScript
• ASP
• Perl
• Flash ActionScript