Curriculum Vitae

PROFILE:

A self motivated, enthusiastic and highly creative person with roots in art and music and a large range of skills in the areas of Creative Computing and Information Technology/ Information Systems. Born with a natural competence at representing audio and visual concepts I have developed various graphical design techniques and methods, both computer based and by hand. Able to use own initiative and work as part of a team. Very resourceful and versatile with the ability and inclination to work to a very high standard. Very good working knowledge of both PC and the Mac.

KEY SKILLS

Adobe Photoshop and Image Ready
Adobe Illustrator
Maya (3D modelling and animation)
Macromedia Director
Flash
Video editing (Final Cut Pro, Premier)
Toon Boom Studio
Webdesign (DreamWeaver, HTML, JavaScript, PHP)
Sound editing (Peak (Mac), and Sequencing Cubase SX (Mac, PC) and Cubase VST (Mac))

OTHER SKILLS

Microsoft Office applications
Desk Top Publishing (MS Publisher, QuarkXpress)
Some programming knowledge (BASIC, COBOL, Pascal, C(++),
Various analysis tools
Knowledge of Computer Systems and Networks
Internet
Drawing, painting using various media, life drawing and storyboarding
Textile design: Screen printing, batik, tie dye, felt making, stencilling, lino prints, silk painting,
Clothes making
Bi-lingual: (Eng. German)
Musical composition and performance (keyboard, vocals)
Literary

 

EXPERIENCE

August 2004

Creation of Website for www.esotericyoga.com

This site was created from scratch by using Photoshop, Dreamweaver, and some hand coding.

May 2004

Update and expansion of the website for the Reshape Company

An existing site with a page size of 500*500 pixels had to be resized to a 600*600 to accommodate larger text size. Original artwork was not supplied but had to be copied from existing and already optimised bitmap files. The original site used frames and redirects and had to be converted to tables while keeping the positions of the buttons that were non-linear. Extra buttons had to be inserted and additional pages created. The majority of the work was fashioned using Photoshop/ImageReady and additional hand coding with HTML. I also had to work to a deadline.

1999 - 2004

Field Community Association, Management committee member, voluntary

1. Working as part of a management team in charge of a local community centre
2. Hands-on running of the centre: Reception and telephone duties, Producing advertising material, co-ordinating events and regular services, catering for large groups, taking bookings, managing volunteers, fundraising, monitoring, working with partnerships in the borough.
3. Staff support and supervision
4. Project leadership of an Environmental subgroup
5. Editing and producing of a newsletter
6. Acquisition of a Computer System, Maintenance and Technical Troubleshooting.
7. Maintaining a LAN.
8. Interviewing prospective staff
1986 - 1999 Housewife / Mother, Artist, Fashion and Accessories designer, Market stalls
EDUCATION and QUALIFICATIONS
Tower Hamlets College, Poplar High Street, Docklands
2004 - 2005 NOCN Interactive New Media
2003 - 2004 NOCN Digital Graphics for the Web
Autumn 2003 NOCN 3D Computer Animation with Maya
2002 - 2003 NOCN 2D & 3D Computer Visualisation
2001 - 2002 NOCN level 3 Computer Animation and Multimedia
Newham College
Autumn 2004 Music Technology Level 1 - MIDI Sequencing
Spring 2000 - July 2001

BTEC Advanced Multimedia and Web Page Design
C&G Textile Decoration Techniques
C&G Web Page Design level 2
1988 - 1990 BTEC Nat. Cert. in Computer Studies, Grade Distinction
1987 Introduction to Computing
Higher Education (University Of East London)
1990 - 1993 BsC Computer Information Systems

Training as part of voluntary community work:

Writing, designing and producing a newsletter (Jan 2001)
First Aid (April 2001)
Basic accounts and fundraising for community organisations

 

INTERESTS

Playing and listening to music, art, yoga, swimming, cycling, keep fit & dance, walking & travel, movies and animation, healthy cooking, arts & crafts, gardening, fashion, literature/journalism, poetry, working in the local community, environmental involvement, humour, children

 

REFERENCES

Available at interview