Jen Strickland

jen@inkpixelspaper.com

Skills

Platforms: Mac & PC

Software: Acrobat, Dreamweaver, Filemaker, Flash, Flex, Freehand, Illustrator, InDesign, Microsoft Office, OmniGraffle, Photoshop, QuarkXpress, Subversion, TextMate, Xcode

Programming: ActionScript 3, Ajax, POSH (plain old semantic html), CSS, Javascript (frameworks: jQuery, prototype / scriptaculous), XHTML, Ektron, Expression Engine and Wordpress Customization, & functional familiarity with asp.net mvc3, Ruby on Rails, MySQL, PHP

Additionally: web standards, accessibility, usability, and best practices for coding; superior hand skills in drawing, illustration, photography and production. My written, verbal and visual communication skills are excellent. I've refused to select web or print as a singular medium as my focus is communication. I'm as enthralled with the fluid magic of the web as the tactile character of the well-printed page.

Experience

Designer — Presentation, Print, User Experience, User Interface, Visual, Web

9/2002 - present ~ freelance / ink pixels paper, Cambridge/MA

Ink Pixels Paper is my freelance business which services small- to corporate-size businesses and non-profits with branding and communication needs. I partner with others in an Agile work environment. Services include logo, identity and branding design, print materials design and production, book design and production, video encoding, custom WordPress installations, design and development of user-focused web-standards-based sites and application interfaces using css, css3, html, html5, xhtml, javascript, php, drupal, expression engine, and mysql, as well as design, production and oversight of identity suites for a variety of clients such as Partners in Health, Cambridge Health Alliance, Judy Jetson, Cheapo Records, Boston Area Rape Crisis Center, Smartleaf, The Bridge Fund of Massachusetts, V Design, Seltzer Design, New Spin Design and the Massachusetts Health Connector, Amy Schuyler Clarkson, Maximize Utility, Radio Bookmark, Time-Lag Records, and Wyman’s Pottery.

Contract Designer, Presentations Specialist & Production Artist, User Experience, User Interface, Visual, Web

7/1995 - present ~ Aquent, Boston/MA

Provide design, development and accessibility expertise to ensure clients' websites are effective and meet Section 508 guidelines, as appropriate. Implement HTML5 and CSS3 in progressive enhancement so that users will have access to content, regardless of the browser they use, including mobile and tablets, using web standards, in an Agile working environment. Design and 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, Delta Dental of Virginia, Fidelity Investments, Putnam Investments, State Street Global Advisors, Massachusetts Medical Society, Houghton Mifflin Publishing, Buyer Advertising, Cambridge 7 Associates Architects, Perkins and Will Architects, Forte Croston Design Agency, Harvard Planning and 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 and produce collateral for print, promotion, presentation and web. Responsibilities include knowledge and maintenance of the brand identity, art direction and development of brand, formulating strategies for introduction of new products, establishing print specifications, obtaining bids for production, and vendor oversight. On a freelance basis, design and develop creative for new corporate rebranding across the corporate literature matrix.

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, via Aquent, Cambridge/MA

Design and produce print materials, presentations, a/v materials, multimedia cd-roms; maintain website; photography and video production; set-up and oversee a/v meetings.

Education

Bachelor of Arts, Applied Art ~ concentration in Painting & Photography ~ University of Southern Maine, Portland/ME

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