Jen Strickland
Technical Skills
Platforms: Mac & PC
Software: Acrobat, Basecamp, Dreamweaver, Filemaker, Flash, Freehand, Illustrator, InDesign, MediaBank, Office, OmniGraffle, Photoshop, QuarkXpress
Web: html, css, javascript, php
Professional Experience
Visual Designer
9/2002 - present ~ freelance / ink pixels paper, Cambridge/MA
Provide branding design and production for print and web clients. Responsibilities include production of graphics, video encoding, design and development of user-focused web-standards-based sites using css, xhtml, javascript, php, drupal, and mysql, as well as design, production and oversight of identity suites for a variety of clients such as Cambridge Health Alliance, Cheapo Records, Christine Krol, Haven O’More, Judy Jetson, Partners in Health, PG Six, Radio Bookmark, Red Baron Media, Scup’s, Smartleaf, Time-Lag Records, VDesign, and We Adorn You.
Contract Graphic Designer, Presentations Specialist & Production Artist
7/1995 - present ~ Aquent, Boston/MA
Design & produce print materials, textbooks, presentations, and illustrations, as well as providing administrative support and file trafficking, for various clients such as Catapult Thinking, Charles River Associates, Fidelity Investments, Putnam Investments, State Street Global Advisors, Massachusetts Medical Society, Houghton Mifflin Publishing, Buyer Advertising, Cambridge 7 Associates Architects, Perkins & Will Architects, Forte Croston Design Agency, Harvard Planning & Real Estate, Harvard Business School Publishing and MIT Department of Transportation.
Senior Graphic Designer
1/2004 - 11/2006 ~ OneBeacon Insurance, via The Creative Group, Boston/MA
Conceptualize, design & produce collateral for print, promotion, presentation and web. Responsibilities include knowledge & maintenance of the brand identity, art direction & development of brand, formulating strategies for introduction of new products, establishing print specifications, obtaining bids for production, & vendor oversight. On a freelance basis, design & develop creative for new corporate rebranding across the corporate literature matrix.
Graphics & DTP
11/2003 - 1/2004 ~ Linguistic Systems, Inc., Cambridge/MA
Design & produce materials in multiple languages, using content provided by translation staff. Projects are varied: presentations, large Word documents, Quark books, Flash, and more. Involves tremendous flexibility, ability to switch between Windows and Mac platforms quickly and troubleshooting client documents.
Project Manager
4/2002 - 9/2003 ~ Pearson Education Custom Publishing, Boston/MA
Supervise production of custom textbooks. Evaluation of manuscript, prepress vendor oversight, trafficking, proofing, file management, invoicing and reporting.
Graphic Designer & A/V Assistant
8/1999 - 1/2003 ~ Grace Construction Products, Cambridge/MA
Design & produce print materials, presentations, a/v materials, multimedia cd-roms; maintain website; photography and video production; set-up & oversee a/v meetings.
Relevant Experience
Management-level experience for a variety of retail businesses ~ The Gap, The Limited, and Banana Republic
Education Facilitator, Holography ~ MIT Museum
Exhibit Painter/Builder/Assistant/Bookkeeper ~ Children’s Museum of Maine
Exhibiting Artist in Painting, Photography & Music
Freelance Writer for Music Magazines
Member of AIGA
Member of Interaction Design Association
Member of Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
Education
Bachelor of Arts, Applied Art ~ concentration in Painting & Photography ~ University of Southern Maine, Portland/ME
Robert McKee's Story Seminar, NYC/NY
An Event Apart Boston 2008, Boston/MA
Web Design Project Planning: Information Architecture, NYU's School of Continuing and Professional Studies, NYC/NY
Flash CS3 Complete, Future Media Concepts, Cambridge/MA
Presenting Data and Information, Edward Tufte, Boston/MA
Private instruction in Flash ~ Lenni Armstrong, informmotion, Somerville/MA
Multimedia Independent Study with Holography ~ MassArt, Boston/MA
Digital Imaging Workshop ~ Photographic Resource Center, Boston/MA