EDUCATION

University of California; San Diego; La Jolla, CA.
BA in Visual Art/Media; Photography/Video; 1988.

GRAPHIC DESIGN, PHOTOGRAPHY
& NON-PROFIT PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

JANUARY 1993 to PRESENT

POSITION: Web/Graphic Designer, Illustrator and Photographer
c r w photography + design; SF, CA
Current clients include SenSage Software, jazz bassist, Peter Barshay; Union Square Salon, David & Friends Salon; Drive Media; Interior Visions Antiques; Vital Tea Leaf (product photography only) ]; Fiddleleaf Gardens; SAVED OR DESTROYED — The Final Comedy by Harry Kondoleon; and Cultural Studies Abroad. A full list of clients is available upon request.

JUNE 2007 to PRESENT

POSITION: Graphic Designer :: SenSage Software; SF, CA
Designed the look and feel of financial software program under the guidance of the Senoir User Interface Designer, including creation of overall palette, software window composition, icons in mutiple interactive states, and software window and pop-up tool structural graphics. Created and maintained graphic archive with a spreadsheet guideline to all graphics and their locations.

MARCH 2003 to FEBRUARY 2006

POSITION: Web Designer/Office Manager :: Stanford Jazz Workshop; Stanford, CA
Web design and maintenance of website. Re-design and engineering of Jazz Camp Registration Process (02.08.05). Re-design and maintenance of re-launched website (02.07.04). Managed office of jazz camp (06.01.03 - 08.15.03) for kids and adults. Assisted Registrar and Education Director with registration of students and class schedule production and distribution to both faculty and students (Jazz Camp 2003).

APRIL 2000 to MARCH 2001

POSITION: Senior Web Designer and Product Photographer  :: Sparks.com; SF, CA
Designed new site templates integrating the company's revamped identity and lead design team in the re-design of this e-commerce web site, serving over 3,000 cards and gifts. Integrated redesign with XML and SQL database production teams. Created an on-site digital photographic studio and produced all gift product shots. Redesigned and updated email marketing newsletter for our customer members.

JANUARY 1999 to APRIL 2000

POSITION: Web/Graphic Designer, Illustrator and Photographer :: Aquent Partners; SF, CA
Web and print design/production for Aquent clients such as: Sapient; Publicis Technology; Grey Interactive Worldwide; Whirlpool; Garden Ridge; Commerce One; ChemConnect; and Annuncio.

JANUARY 1997 to MAY 1997

POSITION: Lead Web Designer  :: Electric Minds; SF, CA
Worked with Producers in the design, production, and maintenance of content areas on Electric Minds, focusing mostly on the Virtual Community Center and Tomorrow portions of the website. Re-designed several content areas within the Virtual Community Center and created a Filemaker Pro database for management of Virtual Community Directory entries.

JANUARY 1994 to JANUARY 1999

POSITION: Freelance and Full-Time In-house Web/Graphic Designer :: Browne Zukow Case Associates; SF, CA
Graphic Designer both in teams and as lead designer for clients such as, Steve Silver's BEACH BLANKET BABYLON, Venture Strategy Group, and World Arts West's ETHNIC DANCE FESTIVAL. Lead designer for Shorenstein Hays Nederlander's Best of Broadway Series shows such as THE KING AND I, MISS SAIGON, EVITA, BRING IN 'DA NOISE/BRING IN 'DA FUNK, SUNSET BOULEVARD, RENT, and the SHNO web site: bestofbroadway-sf.com. Lead Designer for BEACH BLANKET BABYLON's ads and other print collateral including the design/illustration of the 25th Anniversary commemorative poster and other anniversary print collateral. Designed World Arts West's 20th Anniversary ETHNIC DANCE FESTIVAL poster and program; and the 21st Annual ETHNIC DANCE FESTIVAL poster, website: http://www.worldartswest.org/sfedf_99/, brochure and children's activity program. Designed and scripted an informational database management system for Venture Strategy Group. Projects for all of these clients included print collateral, outdoor billboards, public kiosks, bus shelters, websites and BART banners.

NOVEMBER 1991 to JULY 1993

POSITION: Graphic Designer/Admin. Assistant :: Holland Sport Leather Mfg.; SF, CA
Designed, illustrated and produced company catalog, full-color marketing materials, and advertisements published in the national trade magazines TRAVELWARE and OUTDOOR RETAILER. Designed and maintained style of all company documents, forms, tags and labels. Designed and maintained customer database and work order system utilizing Filemaker Pro.

JANUARY 1991 to NOVEMBER 1991

POSITION: Customer Service/Production :: Color 2000, Professional Color Lab; SF, CA
Assisted customers of commercial photo lab /exhibit service in production decisions. Utilized large-scale copy camera in the production of large color transparaencies of fine art for full-color print reproduction. Produced composites of type and color transparencies for composite transparencies and eventual full-color separations for print.

DECEMBER 1988 to JANUARY 1991

POSITION: Education Coordinator :: California Living Museum [CALM]; Bakersfield, CA
Managed tour and subscription programs for regional school districts. Supervised and trained museum docents in tour/communications techniques and in the handling and care of animals during educational programs. Coordinated efforts of volunteer groups to meet the museum's educational goals. Designed, wrote and produced educational exhibits, curriculum, multi-use graphics and textual materials, and quarterly museum newsletter.

SEPTEMBER 1988 to JUNE 1989

POSITION: Assistant to the Director :: Todd Madigan Art Gallery; CSUB, Bakersfield, CA
Researched and created gallery public relations mailing list. Produced news releases and announcements. Aided director in selection of exhibitions and assisted in their installation. Created Spring Alternative Film Festival. Wrote successful grant to the Arts Council of Kern (a regional version of the California Arts Council ) for funding of a bi-annual juried Fiber Arts Exhibition.

SEPTEMBER 1988 to JUNE 1989

POSITION: Art Editor/Photographer :: THE PEARLY STONE Newspaper; Bakersfield, CA
Wrote and edited articles on the local art scene. Assisted in design, typesetting, layout, and paste-up of newspaper. Created and produced all photographs and halftones.

{ Non-design professional experience is continued on page 2 }

To view my design and photography portfolio as a slideshow, click on this link: C R W Portfolio Slideshow

For a complete version of my resume and references as a PDF, including non-design experience, click on this link:crwdesignrez.pdf

COMPUTER SKILLS

Expert in these computer programs [Mac & PC]:

PHOTOSHOP ILLUSTRATOR IMAGEREADY
INDESIGN ACROBAT QUARK EXPRESS
FLASH DREAMWEAVER GO LIVE
BBEDIT FETCH WORD
EXCEL FILEMAKER PRO IPHOTO

Expert in HTML utilizing tables, frames, CSS, DHTML, forms, Javascript, PHP, MySQL, CGI scripts, GIF animations, CSI image maps, FLASH and audio. Expert in constructing HTML templates for utilization with XML.

GRAPHIC, PHOTOGRAPHY & WEB DESIGN REFERENCES

References are available upon request.

NON-PROFIT & VOLUNTEER ORGANIZATIONS

FEBRUARY 2008 :: ArtworkSF/SOMARTS - Annual fundraiser "One Night Stand"; Volunteer Bartender

SEPTEMBER 2005 :: Folk2Folk Katrina Relief Festival - Volunteer Organizer, Graphic Artist and Bartender

AUGUST 2005 :: Touch Foundation - Pre-Fashion Week Show and Fundraiser; Volunteer Bar Manager/Bartender

AUGUST 2005/06 :: ArtworkSF/SOMARTS - Annual fundraisers & exhibitions "The Cafe Show" & "One Night Stand"; Volunteer Bartender

MARCH 2004/05 :: Other Minds Music Festival - Volunteer

OCTOBER 2003/04 :: Headlands Center for the Arts - Halloween Masque Fundraiser; Volunteer Bar Manager/Bartender

MAY 2003 :: Destination Foundation - Runway Fundraising Event; Volunteer Bar Manager/Bartender

SEPTEMBER 1995 :: WiM {Women In Multimedia} - 1996-7 President, Board of Directors; 1995-6 Web Chairperson, Board of Directors

JUNE 1995 :: UN 50th Anniversary Celebration; Photographer/Web Photo Production - http://www.un.org/UN50/SanFran/ceremony.html

JUNE 1994/1995 :: The Interactive Media Festival; Volunteer

EXHIBITIONS

AUGUST 2002 :: One-person Documentary Photography Show; "Spartacus" Miller and the Padre Hotel; at Vesuvio Cafe

JUNE 2002 :: Art in the Alley; Sponsored by Vesuvio Cafe, City Lights Books and Pilsner Urquell