311 8th Street #2B
Brooklyn, NY 11215

917-648-1847 
steph@bway.net         

Professional Skills 

Graphic design with a focus on marketing and publishing. Graphic production involving high-speed adaptation of design concepts to all types of advertising and marketing collateral. Photoillustration and expert photo retouching. Web graphics, presentation design, light HTML. Illustration using vector graphics, ink and watercolor.

Computer skills  

Adobe CS4 Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Dreamweaver, QuarkXPress, Acrobat, PowerPoint, Word.

Experience  

Freelance (ongoing)
Clients have included Grey Healthcare, Medical Knowledge Group, March of Dimes, EngenderHealth, Fresh Sound Records, brgr Restaurants, and Flavor and Fortune magazine.

Prism Marketing and Communications   2002-2008
High-speed print production and light design. Selected best shots from photo shoots to be put into ad layouts, on which I did extensive retouching and photoillustration. Adapted concepts of senior designers to a variety of promotional items including brochures, posters and convention displays.

EngenderHealth (formerly AVSC International), New York, NY  1993-2000
www.engenderhealth.org
Provided art direction, design, and graphic production for AVSC's publications; these included training curricula, an online training course in infection prevention, the agency's website (initial design and subsequent redesigns), intranet, newsletter and promotional literature. Served as art director for AVSC's Infection Prevention CD-ROM; worked closely with in-house team and vendors to standardize procedures for multimedia development. Led training sessions for agency staff in HTML and production of Web graphics.

Paragraphic Artists, New York, NY   1992-1993
Desktop publishing, typesetting and graphic production using QuarkXPress, Illustrator and Photoshop.

Office of College Relations, Smith College, Northampton, MA   1988-1991
Designed, illustrated and produced promotional literature; researched photographs for college publications.

Education 

Smith College, Northampton, MA     
   B.A.1991, Phi Beta Kappa
Pratt Art Institute, New York, NY
Otis/Parsons School of Design, Los Angeles, CA 
California State University, Long Beach