Jenny Creager Design

Resume

University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD - 12/2006
BA in Graphic Design

Web Designer, SRA International, Inc., Rockville, MD - 2007-Present

Web Designer, National Institutes of Health Office of Research Services. Designs and builds user interfaces for web sites using a variety of graphics software applications, techniques, and tools. Interface design includes animation and special-effects elements. Ensures that the "look and feel" supports the organization’s strategies and goals and facilitates user interaction with the system.
Responsibilities include the maintenance of existing static content websites, new development, administrative support work, coordination and follow up of data calls and other requests, preparing documentation, distributing information, and gathering information for purchases (specs for software, peripherals, etc.)
Use of Remedy, a Help Desk tool for logging and tracking customer requests.

Desktop Publisher, Crofton Printing and Copy Centre, Crofton, MD - 2006-2007

Edit text, create and use graphics to accompany text, manipulate digital images, design page layouts, typeset and create color separations, send digital files to film plates.
Design publication ready materials including business cards, menus, tickets, letterheads, posters,
signs and brochures.
Gain extensive knowledge of typography, color theory, usage of Pantone colors and the 4-color process, printing presses, creating files ready for output with the printer, attention to detail.

Photo Lab Technician, Techlab Photo Imaging, Columbia, MD - 2003-2006

Print digital photographic images on a Noritsu and analog prints on an Agfa photo-printing machine. Perform preventive and corrective maintenance on the Noritsu.
Create photo collages, posters, magnets, and many different types of custom photo designs for customers using Photoshop.
Correct and restore old and mild to extremely damaged photographs digitally.
Process color, black and white, and E6 slide film, along with digital prints from media cards and Internet orders through Lifepics. Design and print custom mugs, t-shirts, and mouse pads.

Photo Lab Technician, Ritz Camera, Olney, MD - 2002-2003

Printed on Fuji Frontier 370 and 390 digital photographic printers.
Performed extensive preventive and corrective maintenance on Fuji machines along with the C-41
film processor.

Excellent cross-platform knowledge of Adobe Photoshop, Quark, Illustrator, InDesign, Dreamweaver, Acrobat. Experienced using Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere, Microsoft Office Suite, and Flash.
Strong web design and programming knowledge consisting of HTML, XHTML, DHTML, CSS, FTP, JavaScript. Experienced in PHP, MySQL, and RSS.
Strong background in black and white photography, with darkroom printing and developing experience using different equipment and chemicals.
Certified Video Producer at Montgomery Community Television, 2003.

Basic design foundations acquired, including: xerography; color theory; positive/negative space relations; balance of line, shape, and texture.
Graphic Design curriculum encouraged exploration of different ways to solve designs, while using effective communication. Study of design history, typography, word and image, sign/symbol, and various digital and analog methods created the design foundation. Graphic Design classes consist of computers for designers, introductory typography, word and image, origins and issues in design, advanced typography, and advanced explorations.
Courses include time-based media, two-dimensional art, three-dimensional art, black and white photography, alternative processes, and advanced photography, as well as introduction to art and media studies, drawing, interactivity, video editing, art on the internet, and web interface design.
Techniques attained consist of brochure layout and design, posters, folding styles, intermediate to advanced coding for web design, typography, incorporation of word and image seamlessly, editing text into a design, experience preparing files for a printer, excellent craft and file organization throughout design process.