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Design Skills, Work & Education
• Colleen holds a BA in Studio Art/minor in Biology from Colby College in Waterville, Maine
• 2+ years Master’s Degree Level course work in 2d Animation and Packaging Design (CalArts, SF Academy )
• UX Design certificate from General Assembly. Research in online concert ticketing, bike security, Apple Photos Product Redesign, Emoji Creation and proposal for Unicode
• 2 years Salesforce CRM Training with Trailhead, TrailheadDX and Dreamforce (primary interest: graphic & UX design)
• 5+ years production design for packaging and photography for high-profile accounts and campaigns at agency or in-house environments (DDW, Annie’s, Amy’s, William’s Sonoma, Gymboree, GAP Inc.) Includes creating mockups, comps, SKU creation, editing multiple language files, 3d files created in Photoshop and Esko, file management while working with designers, production managers and printers.
• 10+ years experience with creating and organizing web assets, advertising and business collateral, pre & post digital processing, color manipulation, banner ads, social media ads, working with teams of designers, software engineers and programmers (Presage Studios for Lucas Arts & Broderbund Software, MarketTools, Intellitools)
People Skills and Soft Skills:
• 3+ years working with boards, entrepreneurs, vendors, events and managing artist volunteers for Arts .orgs
• 3+ years working with parents, teachers and students, creating art and projects for YES Foundation, School Fundraisers
• Raised fraternal twins on the spectrum. Experience with IEPS, doctors, special needs groups, student aides in the classroom
• Learned Equality, Diversity and Gender training in San Francisco working with companies who hire many LGBTQ professionals
Technical Skills, Research, Writing, Music & Art Software:
• Proficient in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Acrobat, Video editing)
• Proficient in Keynote, Numbers, Powerpoint, Presentation Graphics, and HTML
• 5+ years researching/writing about music history, songwriting and learning acoustic guitar
• Sound Design and Audio classes/workshops with WAM- Women’s Audio Mission, San Francisco and Oakland, CA