PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE :
Web Designer / Graphic Designer :
2007 – present Baume Percier - Paris, FRANCE
2002 – 2007 Freelance Web designer / Graphic designer
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Chef Dominique’s Catering – site
Rectorat d’Amiens – site
Geoshurr – site
South Eastern Hair Design – magazine advertisements
Mayoral campaign, Tam Baker – site, design for posters and buttons
Fat Duck Bistro – menus, business cards
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2000 – 2002 Electric Pulp Interactive Agency - Sioux Falls, USA.
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Created original graphics, interfaces, animations and advertisements.
Maintained and updated existing sites.
Retouched photos and optimized graphics for use on the web.
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English Assistant in France:
2002 – 2004 Lycée Cassini and Collège Jean Fernel – Clermont de l’Oise.
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Created activities for learning language in context.
Designed activities to increase students' understanding of language concepts.
Implemented techniques to help all types of learners (audio, visual, tactile).
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Service and Sales :
1991 – 2004 Theo's Catering, Fat Duck Bistro, Spezia, Chi-Chi's, Embers.
Filtration Concepts, Metro – Sioux Falls, USA.
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Developed excellent communication, customer satisfaction and sales skills.
Discovered and implemented innovative means to save the companies money. |
EDUCATION :
2006 – 2007 Master 2 in French Language, highest honours : Paris IV Sorbonne.
2005 – 2006 Master 1 in French Language, highest honours : Paris IV Sorbonne.
2005 – 2006 “Licence” in French as a Foreign Language, honours : Paris IV Sorbonne.
2004 – 2005 “Licence” in Modern Letters : Paris IV Sorbonne.
2000 – 1996 Bachelor of Arts in Art, specialty in graphic design and web design.
2000 – 1996 Bachelor of Arts in French, honours : Augustana College, South Dakota, USA
2000 – 1999 Linguistic studies in France : Collège International de Cannes.
1995 – 1991 High School diploma, honours : O’Gorman High School, Sioux Falls, SD, USA.
SOFTWARE AND COMPUTER SKILLS :
Platforms: Windows and Mac. Microsoft Office Suite, Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Flash, InDesign, HTML, CSS, FTP.
COMPLEMENTARY INFORMATION :
Specialist in : regional varieties of North American French, regional lexicon and dialectology of British and American English, lexicography and etymology, and the origin, usage and lexicographic treatment of English words in the French language.
AWARDS AND ACHEIVEMENTS :
Designed a site that won a Citation of Excellence at the 2000 South Dakota Advertising Association, Addy Awards. Chosen as a finalist and published in the 1999 Photographer’s Forum Best of College Photography Annual. Inducted in 1999 into Pi Delta Phi – National French Honor Society.
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