Education

M.S. in Computer Science (Computer Graphics and Animation).
DePaul University, Chicago, IL, 2006.

M.A. in English (with emphasis in HTML and Hypertext).
Illinois State University, Normal, IL, 1999.

B.A. in English (with minors in Chemistry and Spanish).
Illinois State University, Normal, IL, 1995.

Technical Skills

Programming Languages (years of experience): Java (2), C++ (1)
Graphics Programs (years of experience): MS Paint (8), Adobe Illustrator (4), Adobe Photoshop (5), Rhino 3-D (4), Flash (2), 3D Studio Max (3), POV-Ray(1), Pixi/Renderman (1)
Databases (years of experience): SQL(4), SQL Server 2000 (2), Relational database design (2), implementation and normalization (2)
Platforms (years of experience): Windows-95 (4), 98 (5), NT (6) 2000 (6) and XP (3)
Macintosh OSX (1), UNIX (1)

Work Experience

Quality Assurance Contractor (Digital River, Inc.)
(February 2005 - May 2005)

  • performed e-commerce web-testing.
  • updated intranet website content.
  • logged bugs and worked with developers to resolve them.

Graphic Designer (Artistic Digital Services)
(May 2004 - August 2004)

  • Designed brochures, postcards, a calendar, a sign and corporate identity packages for a small graphic design studio
  • Project Managed several client accounts.
  • Assisted with company sales/marketing initiative.
  • Proofed, edited and wrote copy for client websites.

Quality Assurance Manager & Production Specialist (Purple Monkey Studios)
(January 2003 - May 2003)

  • Established Purple Monkey's QA Department/process.
  • Served as QA Lead for the Design Team.
  • Helped automate the production of educational companion software
  • Managed 5 employees.

Quality Assurance Specialist (Hubbard One)
(November 2000 - November 2002)

  • Established Hubbard's QA Department/process.
  • Served as QA Liason to the Design and Documentation Departments.

Junior Quality Assurance Analyst (CCC Information Services)
(July 2000 - November 2000)

  • Served as QA Lead for the UK Data Warehousing project
  • Ran PEARL SQL query strings on UNIX mainframe

Quality Assurance Analyst (Proamics Corporation)
(April 1999 - July 2000)

  • Designed/Launched the Proamics intranet
  • Performed back-end testing using advanced SQL queries.

Graduate Assistant Instructor (Illinois State University)
(August 1996 - May 1998)

  • Taught two basic composition courses.
  • Taught two advanced technical writing courses.

References

References will be made available upon request.