Website & Graphic Designer
Cincinnati Area
- Current
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- Web Designer at CCS, Inc (dba Sleepyheads.com)
- Web Designer at JW Design (Ohio)
- Individual Provider at ODMRDD
- Web Designer at Inspirations of Light (Freelance assignment) (Self-employed)
- Web Consultant at Trusty Insurance Agency (Freelance) (Self-employed)
- Past
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- Production Artist at Premium Personnel
- Media designer at Freelance (Self-employed)
- Marketing Assistant at OfficeTeam
- Web Designer at PrintProd, Inc.
- Desktop Publisher at OfficeTeam
- Media designer at Crown Temporaries
- Desktop Publisher/Graphic Design at Auto Body Panels, Inc.
- Help Desk Technician at Miami University
- Education
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- Glendale University
- ProTrain
- Miami University
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Michèle Richter’s Summary
Desktop Publisher, Web Designer and Web Designer with a wide variety of business applications. Particularly interested in print and digital design using Adobe Creative and Macromedia Suites for creating a physical and digital identity for all businesses. Always interested in merging hard copy design into internet projects.
Experience in Adobe Creative & Macromedia Suites, creation of catalogs, corporate identity (stationery, business cards, logos), web design, forms, research, blue line copy, 4 color process, organization, Copyright & Trademark
Michèle Richter’s Specialties:
website acquisition, storyboarding, desktop publishing, digital and manual design, Adobe PageMaker, Adobe InDesign, Adobe PhotoShop, Adobe Acrobat, Adobe LiveCycle, Adobe Illustrator, HTML, JavaScript, usability, CSS, WYSIWYG layout tools, Macromedia Dreamweaver, Macromedia Flash, ActionScript, software training, customer service,
# XML, HTML, JavaScript, usability, CSS, WYSIWYG layout tools
Michèle Richter’s Experience
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Web Designer
CCS, Inc (dba Sleepyheads.com)
(Retail industry)
June 2008 — Present (1 year 2 months)
Maintain 8 retail sites, plus occasionally update Amazon store, and brand site; create graphics sites, and brand catalogs for their wholesale pajamas.
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Web Designer
JW Design (Ohio)
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Graphic Design industry)
November 2007 — Present (1 year 9 months)
design and maintain web sites for local, national and international organizations - non-profit, personal, and for-profit businesses.
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Individual Provider
ODMRDD
(Consumer Services industry)
May 2007 — Present (2 years 3 months)
Part-time (occasionally Friday nights & Saturdays) assistance care to the Ohio Department of MRDD, in Butler County Ohio for residents that where parents require respite and their child/adult need transportation to their community events such as bowling, dances, fishing, Special Olympic training and much more. I have been working with an individual who has Downs Syndrome, and she trusts me very well. My current goal is to assist her in coming better acquainted with making simple meals on a gas stove (she just accomplished using a Microwave last year) that are healthily balanced, as well as assisting her in maintaining an exercise program that is not only beneficial to her lifestyle but also fun to do so she keeps wanting to exercise.
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Web Designer
Inspirations of Light (Freelance assignment) (Self-employed)
(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Design industry)
January 2007 — Present (2 years 7 months)
Create web site for artist, manipulate provided digital pictures, create artist logo for her company, as well as business identity (business cards, stationery and letterheads).
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Web Consultant
Trusty Insurance Agency (Freelance) (Self-employed)
(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Design industry)
March 2004 — Present (5 years 5 months)
- acquisition of URL from previous maintenance provider.
- provided savings in yearly URL renewal and web hosting space.
- maintain current web site, including update of pages, images, email accounts
- currently investigating a safer and more secure form using Adobe LiveCycle and Acrobat -
Production Artist
Premium Personnel
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Design industry)
September 2006 — December 2006 (4 months)
- Re-produced rendered artwork for restaurants and grocery stores.
- Color corrected imagery to match approved customer artwork rendering
- Generated entire computer file for assigned projects
- Managed projects and performed efficiently in a deadline driven environment
- Tracked status of each project and ensured projects went to print error-free and met designer/supervisor specifications -
Media designer
Freelance (Self-employed)
(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Design industry)
October 2006 — November 2006 (2 months)
-create interactive educational product to be placed on CD-ROM for sale at conventions. I use Dreamweaver to accomplish this assignment, using both the design concept and the code as well, enabling me to customize the HTML and JavaScript, as well as the visualization and usability.
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Marketing Assistant
OfficeTeam
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Construction industry)
May 2006 — June 2006 (2 months)
-Organized marketing materials by creating relevant folders for similar excel databases, condensing repeated material into one document, with several worksheets separating into various databases for easier search requests
-Assembled invitations for clients and customers to company celebration at the Dayton Air Show. Prepare water bottles with confetti, fold invitations and adhere labels, stuff into water bottle, run to get supplies, box water bottles with colored tissue paper. -
Web Designer
PrintProd, Inc.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Printing industry)
July 2005 — October 2005 (4 months)
-Suggested URL name: www.printprodinc.com. Registered name, created original layout, pages, graphics, and necessary prose for site.
- Created and updated graphics for camera-ready images to produce industrial tags
- Generated entire computer file for assigned projects
- Managed projects and performed efficiently in a deadline driven environment
- Tracked status of each project and ensured projects went to print error-free and met client specifications
- Assisted customer service with quoting, tag processing, filing, and preparing samples to send to perspective new and current clients. -
Desktop Publisher
OfficeTeam
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Hospital & Health Care industry)
January 2005 — June 2005 (6 months)
- Applied barcodes to pre-existing forms (MAC-based).
- Re-created 1000+ forms using Design Studio for OptioServer. (PC-based)
- Assisted medical records by scanning documents into digital filing system, scan testing and update electronic literature. -
Media designer
Crown Temporaries
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Medical Practice industry)
May 2004 — November 2004 (7 months)
- Replaced background on PowerPoint presentations with newly created background imagery.
- Proofread educational text for misspellings and sentence structure errors.
- Created new interactive educational products utilizing Macromedia Dreamweaver, hand-coding HTML and JavaScript. (Shoulder, Hand and Wrist, Knee, Abdomen and Pelvis [2004] (Educational Lessons on CD-ROM)
- Created MRI Total Body Atlas Volume III book on CD-ROM
- Reduced previous version size by fixing coding and scripting errors plus ridding of unused code within each volumes and reducing image sizing. This provided a smaller document on CD-ROM, which enabled the program to load faster than the previous editions. (Breast 2004).
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Desktop Publisher/Graphic Design
Auto Body Panels, Inc.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Automotive industry)
August 1999 — July 2003 (4 years)
- Created and designed all print material including yearly catalog, supplement catalogs, flyers, forms, post cards, company stationery, second website, business cards and updated color scheme on logo.
- Created all layouts and images for all printed matter including newsletters, Yellow Page directories, local magazine advertisements, car show advertisements, web site and promotional items.
- Generated entire computer file for assigned projects, manage projects and performed efficiently in a deadline driven environment
- Tracked status of each project and ensured projects went to print error-free and met management specifications
- Research of competitors’ products, web sites and advertising strategies
- Assisted co-workers with software applications (MS Office, email and Adobe Acrobat)
- Copyrighting and Trademarking of business documents and logos. -
Help Desk Technician
Miami University
(Educational Institution; 201-500 employees; Education Management industry)
October 1995 — August 1999 (3 years 11 months)
- Assist students and staff with computer, printer, software or hardware issues.
- Computer software and hardware upgrade.
- Create mini-newsletter for freshmen and new transfer students on Computer facilities usage.
- Hire and train new student technician staff.
Michèle Richter’s Education
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Glendale University
MS , Graphic Design , 2007 — 2009
Minor: English; received special certificate for Web Design
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ProTrain
Vocational , Web Design Specialist , 2004 — 2005
upgraded skills and knowledge of Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Macromedia Dreamweaver, Macromedia Flash, and JavaScript, was told by several instructors that I should have my own business
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Miami University
1992 — 1999
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Michèle Richter’s Interests:
New technology, professional networking, digital photography, painting, digital painting, hiking, camping, walking, family, pets, writing, gourmet cooking, gardening, jewelry making, Wii, remodeling, new technology, vegetable & flower gardening, being more eco friendly
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