Web Designer at Google
San Francisco Bay Area
- Current
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- Web Designer at Google
- Owner, Developer at PaperDemon.com
- Past
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- Webmaster at High Five Comics (defunct)
- Webmaster at Meridian Computer Satellite Wireless
- Education
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- San Jose State University
- Connections
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- Industry
- Design
- Websites
Susie Sahim’s Summary
I am currently an illustrator and web designer for Google, Inc creating a variety of graphics from holiday logos, marketing illustrations, product logos to user interface iconography and product icons.
I am also a self taught PHP/MySQL/XSL/jQuery/AJAX web application developer. These are skills that I have been developing on the side through my online art and writing community website, PaperDemon.com.
Susie Sahim’s Specialties:
Freehand Drawing, Web Illustration, Branding, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Corel Painter, XHTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL, jQuery, AJAX, Javascript, PHP Smarty, XML, XSLT
Susie Sahim’s Experience
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Web Designer
Google
(Public Company; GOOG; Internet industry)
June 2006 — Present (3 years 7 months)
Illustrate Google holiday logos (Google Doodles)
Design product icons for brand development
Design UI icon sets for web applications
Design illustrations for marketing landing pages
Build tools to increase productivity of graphics team tasks
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Owner, Developer
PaperDemon.com
(Online Media industry)
September 2003 — Present (6 years 4 months)
Learn and practice knowledge of XHTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL, XML, XSLT, jQuery/AJAX/JavaScript, and PHP Smarty.
Site contains an abundance of features where users can post their artwork/writing, share, comment, favorite, and communicate. Major features include Art Gallery, Comics, Writing library, forums, chat room, Subscription notification, private messaging, blogs, and moderator controls. Site coded mostly from scratch with exception of a few libraries such as Pear DB, Smarty, jQuery, FCKEditor, and HTML Purifier. Site is in UTF-8 encoding.
Also create web design, UI iconography, and web marketing.
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Webmaster
High Five Comics (defunct)
(Online Media industry)
April 2005 — May 2006 (1 year 2 months)
Developing customized web comic software with easy to use backend
Building website templates and creating graphics under the art direction of Michael Sanchez
Implemented my own Forum/BBS software with a custom comic book look -
Webmaster
Meridian Computer Satellite Wireless
(Computer Hardware industry)
February 2003 — December 2004 (1 year 11 months)
Provided on-site computer services, including teaching clients computer skills
Created a MySQL and PHP driven website
Designed flyers and logos
Susie Sahim’s Education
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San Jose State University
BFA , Animation/Illustration , 2001 — 2007
Studied in the rigorous SJSU Animation/Illustration department learning the fundamentals of figure drawing and principles of animation. Also survived Figure Drawing boot camp, twice. I've got the scars to prove it.
- Activities and Societies:
- ShrunkenHeadMan Club
Additional Information
Susie Sahim’s Websites:
Susie Sahim’s Interests:
illustration, web development, web design, drawing, music, piano, php, xml
Susie Sahim’s Groups:
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San Jose State University (official group) -
Shrunkenheadman Club Alumni
Susie Sahim’s Honors:
Dean's Scholar
Susie Sahim’s Contact Settings
Interested In:
- career opportunities
- consulting offers
- new ventures
- job inquiries
- expertise requests
- reference requests
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