Caroline Courtney

Objective

Intelligent, creative individual desires to excel in the field of web design, using great ideas to create a variety of promotional materials and standards-complient, usable, and beautiful web sites that strengthen their brands' online presence.

Experience and Skills

Web Design
Web Standards, Compressing and optimizing and editing images for the web, usability, accessibility, and user interaction. (X)HTML, CSS, Dreamweaver MX 2004 and hand-coding, stylesheets for various media, front-end styles and interfaces utilizing dynamic web technologies. Some Flash MX 2004 experience, basic familiarity with PHP, ASP, MySQL, JavaScript.

Graphic Design
Visual systems, branding, typography, design principles, color theory, layout, extensive experience with Photoshop CS2, experience with Illustrator CS2, InDesign CS2, Quark.

Other Computer Skills
Proficient and experienced Windows PC and Mac user of several years. Microsoft Office 2003, SoundEdit and SoundForge, Maya.

Employment History

Web Designer: Indiana University School of Medicine Research Office Indianapolis, Indiana (April 2005 - Present)

• Established web presence for the new Computational Diagnostics Center
• Recreated Osteosarcoma Online, with a focus usability and appeal for a young adult audience
• Used modern web standards in all projects

Designer/Graphic Artist: Indiana University School of Library and Information Science Bloomington, Indiana (October 2003 - March 2005)

Used design skills to establish visual interest, and create a favorable impression of SLIS, in various print and web publications.

• Redesigned the department's website to dramatically improve its usability and SLIS' image, and to better reflect modern web standards
• Developed a variety of successful print promotional materials such as invitations, reports, and grant requests.
• Created several websites for SLIS faculty, student projects, and various conferences.

Education

Indiana University, Bloomington, Fall 2003.
Bachelor of Arts - Studio Art with concentration in Graphic Design.
Minor in Information Technology. 3.2 GPA