
Co-Founder and Art Director at Women's Cycling Magazine
Greater Los Angeles Area

Co-Founder and Art Director at Women's Cycling Magazine
Greater Los Angeles Area
10+ years combined experience in Graphic Design, Web Development and Marketing. Future goals include the expansion of Casualty of Design in all areas of design and marketing.
Our goal is to make COD a fully functional national advertising agency by Summer 2009 with 10+ employees.
• Adobe Photoshop
• Adobe Illustrator
• Adobe Dreamweaver
• Adobe InDesign
• QuarkXpress
• Microsoft Office
• HTML
• CSS
• Marketing
• Public Speaking
• Public Relations
(Partnership; Publishing industry)
2009 — Present (less than a year)
Co-Founder and Art Director of Women's Cycling Magazine. www.womenscyclingmag.com
(Design industry)
January 2007 — Present (3 years )
• Creating of W3C compliant websites utilizing CSS, HTML and any programming requested.
• Original creation, maintenance and marketing for all of Casualty of Design print and web.
• Delegate and outsource overflow work to vendors across the nation.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
November 2006 — April 2008 (1 year 6 months)
My primary responsibilities include monitoring and maintain over 11,000 LIVE eCommerce websites on a daily basis. Website maintenance includes but is not limited to the following, HTML, CSS, SQL, SEO and GUI Design. I am also the liaison between Server Administrators, Merchant Gateways and third party software solutions. In addition to maintaining our clients websites and proprietary backend administration functionality my other duties include, updating the volusion.com knowledge base, forums, ticketing system, demo stores and internal intranet pages on a daily basis.
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; BNE; Printing industry)
June 2002 — February 2006 (3 years 9 months)
Met with clients to discuss and interpret their business design needs. From client basic concepts conceived and developed innovative products and layouts. Identified and collected data needed to create design briefs. Resolved design issues by re-imaging designs to add flair and unique presentation. Worked within predetermined time constraints to meet or exceed production deadlines. Rotated multiple projects concurrently, accustomed to multi-tasking. Utilized a range of media, including photography and computer aided design. Worked in teams with copywriters, printers, photographers, designers, account executives, website designers and sales specialists to meet tight deadlines.
1998 — 2000
website design, graphic design, social networking, new media, seo, programming, HTML, CSS, electronic music, djing, snowboarding, tennis, surfing, travel, french, portuguese, brasil, france