Jen Strickland

Technical Skills

Platforms: Mac & PC

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

Programming: ActionScript 3, Ajax, POSH (plain old semantic html), CSS, Javascript (frameworks: jQuery, prototype / scriptaculous), XHTML, Expression Engine Customization, Wordpress Customization, & functional familiarity with Ruby on Rails, MySQL, PHP, & Objective-C, & registered iPhone developer

Professional Experience

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

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

Provide branding, design and production in a variety of media. Responsibilities include production of graphics, video encoding, custom WordPress installations, design and development of user-focused web-standards-based sites and application interfaces 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 Partners in Health, Cambridge Health Alliance, Judy Jetson, Cheapo Records, Boston Area Rape Crisis Center, Smartleaf, The Bridge Fund of Massachusetts, V Design, Seltzer, Amy Schuyler Clarkson, Maximize Utility, Radio Bookmark, Time-Lag Records, and Wyman’s Pottery.

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, via Aquent, 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.