May 2000 - April 2005 Freelance Artist/Caregiver- Graphic Artist
Accomplished a number of independent projects with a local restaurant. Also completed some graphic design for weddings and funerals. Combined with that also spent a lot of time helping family members with rehabilitation following a car accident as well as assisting mother in hospice situation.

March 1999 - May 2000 Network Communications - Graphic Artist
Created layouts for The Real Estate Book, a nationwide digest size book specializing in real estate listings. During this t time also created a number of electronic based forms that would facilitate efficient processing of work related order forms such as logo and scanning requests.

September 1998-March 1999 UST - Technology Associate
Communicated with a number of businesses regarding the status of their computer software, also known as Enterprise Resource Planning Solution software that dealt with many different facets of business transactions. Dealt with a number

March 1997 - September 1998 - MacTemps - Computer Specialist
Commissioned on a number of projects regarding different areas of expertise in all things Macintosh. For example: At Vachon Associates, created invitations as well as other graphic pieces. At Bellsouth, converted a number of border patterns from their Illustrator Mac native format to a Windows based Illustrator Format. At a trade magazine company in NE Atlanta, preflighted a number of magazine pages in preparation for printing.

1991 - BA Arts in English at Oglethorpe University

Computer Skills: Proficient in the Macintosh G5, OS 10.3.8. also proficient in using Adobe Photoshop CS, Illustrator CS, QuarkXpress6.0, PageMaker, working knowledge of Dreamweaver MX , Bryce 5, Stratus Studio Pro, MS Office 2004, Adobe InDesign, and other Mac based applications.

Artistic Skills: Almost 23 Years of drawing, and illustrating. Proficient in the use of colored pencils, regular graphite pencil, working knowledge of oil and acrylic painting, as well as the aforementioned computer programs above.

Verbal/Writing Skills: Took numerous creative writing courses in college. Also was part of the literary club"Impressions" in high school.

References Available upon Request