sharon gadbois

Current

• eBusiness Coordinator at BSN Inc.
• Interactive Media Designer at Creatively Yours

Past

• Dreamweaver: Substitute at Art Institute
• Web Designer/Programmer & Informational Designer at Catalyst Enterprises
• Flash Designer at Mack Barnes Photography

• Project Manager at Antique Car Museum
• Web/Graphic/Flash Designer at Gatekeeper Business Solutions
• ASP.NET: Substitute Teacher at Art Institute
• Web & Informational Designer at Little Gems 925
• Web & Informational Designer at Broadstar
• Flash & Informational Designer at Them Strowbridge Boyz
• Intern/Contractor at American Express
• Graphic Designer at Metal and Wood Buildings

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Education

• Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale

Recommended

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Connections

78 connections

Industry

Internet

Websites

• eSolutions
• Web Designer
• Myspace

sharon gadbois’s Summary

Talented web designer with a passion for creating visually interesting content; some backend design, entrepreneurial spirit and business owner.

sharon gadbois’s Specialties:

Served as a liaison between union rank and management for labor relations; Project Management: SharePoint, MS Project, McAfee Hackersafe and PCI Compliant and Visual SourceSafe (VSS); eCommerce Design: PHP, MySQL; Front-end Design: Flash (AS 2.0), XML, PHP, X/HTML, CSS, JS; Applications: Adobe Flash, Illustrator, Photoshop, Image Ready, Premiere Pro, Dreamweaver, Macromedia Captivate, Fireworks, Director, 3D Vista, DVD Studio Pro, MS Visio, Real Producer, Compressor, and Constant Contact

sharon gadbois’s Experience

• eBusiness Coordinator

  BSN Inc.

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Health, Wellness and Fitness industry)

  February 2008 — Present (9 months)

  - Execute assigned projects, according to the established project management process.
  - Create and maintain project timelines
  - Ensure that projects remain ahead of schedule
  - Coordinate all activities of the project team and ensure that project tasks are completed and that issues are escalated as needed.
  - Obtain appropriate approvals of all materials needed to do the job.
  - Assist in delivering status reports to project team, the client and management
  - Schedule project-related team meetings, i.e. kickoffs, start-ups, reviews, regroups, and pre-pros. as needed and communicate actions steps to achieve them.
  - Coordinate with other inter-related departments to plan out future projects and timelines
  - Understand programming languages in order to move projects through to completion.
  - Assist in certain programming/design projects when needed to meet deadlines or as assigned.
  - Ensure all testing of projects are completed thoroughly before launch.

• Interactive Media Designer

  Creatively Yours

  (Public Company; 1-10 employees; Design industry)

  August 2004 — Present (4 years 3 months)

  Web design, graphic design, instructional design, informational design, eCommerce, Photography, Flash Animation Design, some backend and dB design. Please visit my website: www.sharongadbois.com

• Dreamweaver: Substitute

  Art Institute

  (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Education Management industry)

  December 2007 — December 2007 (1 month)

  Created my own lesson plan: plug-ins

• Web Designer/Programmer & Informational Designer

  Catalyst Enterprises

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; E-Learning industry)

  June 2007 — December 2007 (7 months)

  Designed and developed a new website for new eLearning company: researched competitors along with industry-related information for type of product; created a target market and competitors analysis then moved forward with a three design ideas and implemented a survey amongst professionals and peers to get a better grasp of which design idea would have the most impact. From there, I developed the current site, which is undergoing maintenance and beta testing procedures. I have been with the team from the ground up.

• Flash Designer

  Mack Barnes Photography

  (Photography industry)

  September 2007 — November 2007 (3 months)

  New website design.

• Project Manager

  Antique Car Museum

  (Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Automotive industry)

  July 2007 — September 2007 (3 months)

  Re-design of current site. Team of 10. Project finished 1 week early.

• Web/Graphic/Flash Designer

  Gatekeeper Business Solutions

  (Computer Software industry)

  January 2007 — August 2007 (8 months)

  - Designed visual interfaces and interaction of web-based applications;
  - Evaluated interfaces utilizing user-centered design principles and implemented the user interface design.
  - Worked with the sales & marketing team to design online user experiences that would be best displayed in the field.
  - Produced graphic designs, and copy layouts for online content.
  - Determined size and arrangement of illustrative material and copy, selected style and size of type, and arranged layout based upon available space, knowledge of layout principles, and aesthetic design concepts; produced graphic art and visual materials for tradeshows, advertisements, and packaging material through a variety of media outlets such as websites and CD-ROMs;
  - Generated and manipulated graphic images, animations, and text into consolidated and seamless multimedia programs.

• ASP.NET: Substitute Teacher

  Art Institute

  (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Education Management industry)

  June 2007 — June 2007 (1 month)

  Lesson: Introduction/Overview of

• Web & Informational Designer

  Little Gems 925

  (Consumer Goods industry)

  October 2006 — March 2007 (6 months)

  Site re-design and maintenance for three months

• Web & Informational Designer

  Broadstar

  (Broadcast Media industry)

  January 2006 — August 2006 (8 months)

  Created, updated, and improved layout, design, and content of various materials which included web pages and online content, such as newsletters and marketing materials, and pamphlets, handouts, as well as advertising content for print.
  
  Print and Online designs were often created using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Photoshop, InDesign, and Dreamweaver.

• Flash & Informational Designer

  Them Strowbridge Boyz

  (Facilities Services industry)

  April 2005 — June 2005 (3 months)

  Designed a new site for company

• Intern/Contractor

  American Express

  (Public Company; Financial Services industry)

  October 2004 — April 2005 (7 months)

  Worked with instructional design team: web based training using Dreamweaver, and Flash while incorporating audio files

• Graphic Designer

  Metal and Wood Buildings

  (Construction industry)

  December 2004 — December 2004 (1 month)

  Designed a new business card.

sharon gadbois’s Education

• Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale

  2002 — 2007

Additional Information

sharon gadbois’s Websites:

• eSolutions
• Web Designer
• Myspace

sharon gadbois’s Interests:

sunning, traveling, networking and social group organizer,seo, search engine optimization, internet marketing, online business ventures, online business, marketing, online marketing, advertising, corp id, podcasting, webcasting

sharon gadbois’s Groups:

South Florida Web Design Professionals Meetup Group, South Florida Web Design Meetup Group, The South Florida Bicycling Meetup Group, Like-minded Individuals, Miami-Dade Travel and Adventure, MyBizLoop Networking Group South Florida, South Florida Flash User Group sffug.org, The South Florida Graphic Design/Creative Meetup Group, Meetup, BNI, MySpace, Ryze, Ringo, Rojo, BP, RAGFL east, American Express

•    ECOM - ecommerce and online marketing (2000+ Members)

sharon gadbois’s Honors:

Magna Cum Laude, Author of The P.E.E. Book

sharon gadbois’s Contact Settings

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