Susan MacPhee

Current

• Marketing Director at Ipswich Pottery
• Senior Web Assistant Contractor at MIT

Past

• Content Management Designer at CommonPlaces e-Solutions, Inc.
• Media Designer and Production Specialist at MIT
• Site Builder and Webmaster at Arthur D. Little

• Graphic Specialist at Arthur D. Little

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Education

• Emerson College

Connections

71 connections

Industry

Internet

Susan MacPhee’s Summary

Throughout career, my support has been in the design, interactive, and technology departments of some of the most respected institutions in the world and providing support to some of the greatest minds in the U.S. It's a mixture of luck and being in the right place that has given such great opportunities.

Susan MacPhee’s Specialties:

Web Design, HTML, CSS, Content Management Systems--Drupal; WordPress; Joomla, Social Networks, publishing systems

Susan MacPhee’s Experience

• Marketing Director

  Ipswich Pottery

  (Arts and Crafts industry)

  October 2008 — Present (10 months)

  Developing databased-managed HTML CSS email marketing campains, design and maintain content management website.

• Senior Web Assistant Contractor

  MIT

  (Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)

  October 2007 — Present (1 year 10 months)

• Content Management Designer

  CommonPlaces e-Solutions, Inc.

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

  October 2007 — October 2008 (1 year 1 month)

  • Administered Drupal content management system for a Fortune 200 green social network and designed and produced micro sites for their corporate sponsors using Dreamweaver as a set-up tool, CSS, HTML, and web ready images.
  • Produced search engine optimized sites using organic and standard markup methods
  • Edited sponsors environmental stewardship messaging for web-ready content while maintaining brand identity on single page layouts.
  • Trained clients to update Drupal sites independently
  • Proofread and formatted external documentation such as contracts, proposals, and presentations.
  • Arranged sponsorship, logistics, and refreshments for 300 attendees of Drupalcon Boston 2008 Code Sprint at the MIT Stata Center.
  • Trained designers to use content management system to produce web pages.
  • Lead client interaction and worked as their advocate with engineering, product management, and design teams.

• Media Designer and Production Specialist

  MIT

  (Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)

  2002 — 2007 (5 years)

  • Partnered with the Student Information Processing Board (scripts.mit.edu), and produced content management system applications to build research sites that enabled owners to make updates independent from their webmaster.
  • Organized conferences and produced the materials such as websites, postcards, and packets.
  • Designed, developed, and maintained websites from conception to production for research centers and conferences using CMS software, Dreamweaver, HTML, and CSS.
  • Volunteered with Adobe User Group by recruiting industry-known speakers and booking evening space on MIT campus to meet the needs of pubic access.
  • Optimize sites for search engines, interactivity, usability, and CSS web standards.
  • Ongoing brand-identity development for communication pieces including, websites, posters, brochures, CDs, postcards, agendas, etc.
  • Design annual reports with InDesign made for print on digital press.
  • Develop complex engineering and graphing presentations.

• Site Builder and Webmaster

  Arthur D. Little

  (Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; ADL; Management Consulting industry)

  January 2001 — September 2002 (1 year 9 months)

  Used agency-developed templates to populate a 500 page website with fresh content
  
  Launched new website with a managed-hosting company
  Completed daily update requests from staff world-wide
  Created graphics in Photoshop and Fireworks
  
  Maintained five other websites affiliated with ADL with Dreamweaver and Homesite
  
  Learned how to administer server-side functions, i.e., password and site protection, and search engine maintenance in NT 4.0 and IIS

• Graphic Specialist

  Arthur D. Little

  (Internet industry)

  1995 — 2001 (6 years)

  Produced hundreds of static, multimedia, and interactive presentations in PowerPoint and Flash. Traveled with consultant teams to provide on-site presentation graphic support. Created presentation standards for over 2,000 employees and traveled to South America and Europe to gather feedback regarding style preferences. Taught editorial and design standards, graphing, and interactive presentation techniques. Produced spot and 4-color printed materials in QuarkXpress. Developed content for company website in Flash, Fireworks, and Dreamweaver.

Susan MacPhee’s Education

• Emerson College

  1995 — 1998

Additional Information

Susan MacPhee’s Groups:

•    Drupal Users Group
•    Web Predictions
•    Drupal Community Network

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