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Résumé
Urso S. A. Chappell
email: Urso@UrsoCreative.com • phone: +1.415.867.9994
address: 417 Fulton Street, Suite 1, San Francisco, CA 94102, USA
Skills
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Excellent
design, presentation, editing, and communication skills |
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Experience
in Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe PageMaker, Macromedia
Fireworks, Macromedia Dreamweaver, Macromedia Flash, Microsoft Excel,
Microsoft Word, QuarkXPress, Adobe Dimensions |
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Quickly
pick up new programs as needed |
Experience
November 2005 - Present:
Senior Graphic Designer, Dominican University of California,
San Rafael, California |
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Working with marketing manager, created and enforced consistent identities for the university and its many departments, divisions, and programs. |
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Created various materials promoting the university to prospective students, the community at large, and local businesses. |
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Worked with recruitment staff to develop strategies for creating awareness of the university to high school and community college students. |
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Assisted Information Technology department with graphics for the university web site, Dominican.edu. |
June 2002 - March 2005:
Art & Design Manager/Marketing Communications Manager, Velcro USA Inc.,
Tucson, Arizona |
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Responsible for the complete packaging re-design of the entire VELCRO® Brand line (STICKY BACK®, Industrial Strength, Extreme, for Posters!, for Cubicles!, ONE-WRAP®, etc.) for North American Market. |
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Created point-of-purchase displays in conjunction with marketing experts geared toward increasing sales for Consumer Products Division. |
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Participated in marketing and sales strategies with product managers. |
November
2000 - October 2001:
Senior Graphic Designer, HealthCentral.com,
Emeryville, California
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Produced
online advertising for e-commerce site (WebRx.com) and content sites
(HealthCentral.com and RxList.com). |
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Designed
graphics for other sites to direct traffic to both content and commercial
sites. |
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Created
HTML newsletter layouts promoting sales and specials.
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October
1999 - October 2000:
Senior Graphic Designer, Women.com Networks,
San Mateo, California |
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Responsible
for producing creative banner advertisements in collaboration with
marketing experts. |
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Designed
seasonal promotions mini-sites which featured both existing editorial
content as well as e-commerce. |
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Produced
graphics for various sweepstakes mini-sites. |
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Created
print material to promote and create partnerships with other companies. |
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Assisted
fellow graphic designers by creating various elements including Flash
animation.
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Education
June 2006 - Present:
Dominican University of California, San Rafael, California |
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Humanities and Cultural Studies courses including Museum Studies |
September 1985 - June 1990:
Georgia Institute of Technology College of Architecture, Atlanta, Georgia |
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Courses emphasizing architecture, art, and design theory |
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Special focus in visual presentation |
Awards
November 2004:
Expo 2005 Linimo Design Competition, Nagoya, Japan |
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Appeared on Japanese television, in Japanese newspapers, as well as in the US publication Architectural Record |
Interests
World's fair history, architecture, contemporary art and design, politics, travel, languages, and cartography
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