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Jennifer Wanderer
jennifer@wandererdesign.com
415.613.9223

SOFTWARE SKILLS: Acrobat, After Effects, Dreamweaver, Flash, HTML, Illustrator, InDesign, Maya, PhotoShop, PowerPoint, QuarkXPress
EXPERIENCE:
Graphic Artist, Contractor
Chico Web Design
9/05-present
Provided art direction to staff, scheduled art direction tasks; written descriptions, sketches, folding dummies, photo research, samples etc. Created; style, mood and overall vision for Marketing, Advertising, Promotions, Corporate Image, Collateral Materials, Web Design and Special Events. Designed promotional piece for First Entertainment.

 
Managing Art Director Contract
Redbeard Communications
5/05-7/05
Provided art direction to staff, sketches, folding dummies, photo research etc. Created; style, mood and overall vision for marketing, advertising, promotions, corporate image, collateral materials, web design and special events. Designed promotional piece for First Entertainment.
 
Multimedia Artist/
Senior Designer
Exponent Incorporated
7/02-5/05
Redesigned corporate image: marketing materials, business collateral, design and layout of all tradeshows, full color brochures, invitations in print and in Flash, announcements of new hires, annual report cover and design of company calendar. Created technical illustrations, graphics and animations for court cases and product design.
 
Flash Animator, Contractor
System2
6/00-present
Produce and design Flash presentations. Redesign marketing materials. Create layouts and graphics for promotional booklets and media kits. Design and animate graphics for software and screen savers. Clients: Taliant Software, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, and U.S. Geological Survey.  
 
Lead Flash Animator & Motion Graphics
Ninth House Network
5/00-7/01
Storyboarded, layout design, animated motion graphics and typography used for interactive screens, films, and audio scripts. Designed and created graphics that consisted of both illustrations and photography. Had to combine technical skills with creative skills extensively. Optimized graphics for web. Clients: Broadband eLearning Network and Cisco.
 
Character Animator
Spunky Productions
9/99-4/00
Managed a team of four animators with responsibility for character design and continuity of story development. Created animatics and optimized cartoons for web streaming. Key framed and animated characters. Designed layouts and illustration for print media and Internet sites.
 
Graphic Artist
Quark Incorporated
3/93-7/95
Supervised a staff of localization typesetters and consistently exceeded Quark's performance standards. Designed layouts of foreign language software manuals. Worked with multinational teams to produce localized manuals. Created graphics for kiosk presentations. Created multi-language online help files for Quark software suite.
 
Graphic Artist
Cottrell Printing
5/92-3/93
Oversaw and designed layout and production of four color
multi-page documents. Responsible for pre-press preparation and reviewed printer proofs. Developed corporate logos, business forms and brochures.
EDUCATION:
  • B.F.A in Fine Arts/Computer Art, The Academy of Art University in San Francisco, 1996-1999.
  • Associate of Arts Degree in Occupational Studies and
    Visual Communication. The Art Institute of Colorado, 1988-1991.
AWARDS:
  • Excellence Award; Exponent Inc., Award for providing excellent services for a time-critical project 9/2002.
  • In-House Award for Excellence; Ninth House Network/Building Community, 9/2000.
  • Silver Award from Brandon Hall of Fame; Ninth House Network/eSeries, 8/2000.
  • Second Place/Best Educational Content/Shockwave;
    Spunky Productions/Bems, 3/1999.