School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Office of Publications of and Enrollment Marketing - Design and Marketing Assistant

Responsible for data entry and collection for SAIC marketing for student recruitment

Design and proofread print material including catalogs, signs, forms, postcards maintaining brand consistency

Flexo Transparent, Inc.

Electronic Graphics Manager

Responsible for design and preparation of art and digital assets for flexographic packaging design

Managed network of computers company wide for CRM, Ink Dispensing System, and Digital Assets

Niagara Gazette

Assistant Manager of Production Services

Responsible for team of digital production artists for daily newspaper

Integrated transition from manual pasteup to direct-to-film using DTI technologies/Macintosh-Apple Systems

Youngest member of the management team corporate worldwide (at the time)- Gannett.

Implemented award winning program to reduce errors to nearly 0%

Compu-Mail

Prepress Manager

Responsible for team of designers/variable data print specialists and engineers for digital production.

Lead developer for cross-media, email campaigns and integrating automated campaigns.

Management of digital assets for ongoing print, e-mail and cross-media campaigns on our production servers.

Buffalo State College

Adjunct Lecturer

Designed, developed and implemented online course: AED 200: Fundamentals of Art Inquiry and classroom course: AED 398: Studio Methods – Computer Applications for Art Educators.

SUNY Quality Matters Certification - September 2010.

Assisted the Center for Excellence in Urban and Rural Education Director with implementation of
Preparing Tomorrow’s Teachers to use Technology Federal Grant (PT3) for the Art Education Department.

Developed and delivered presentations, workshops and seminars relating to the integration of multimedia technology into the classroom for Buffalo Public school art teachers and preservice art education students.

Developed and taught lesson plans to develop preservice art education students computer technology skills.

Girl Scouts of Western New York

Assistant Leader for Troop # 31157

Inservice Art Teacher Technology Instruction: The Impact on Professional Growth

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference (SITE) 2007:1 , Mar 26, 2007

A goal of our PT3 project is to enhance inservice art teacher technology skills. Comprehensive instruction is offered in overall use of the computer as a teaching tool in the classroom, and in the use of specific software to develop interactive curriculum materials that incorporated text, photographs, video and sound. This paper examines the overall impact of the training on the K-12 art teachers' professional lives in their school settings and their ability to effectively integrate computer-facilitated technologies (Delacruz, 2004) into instructional materials. Data collected from observations, focus group interviews, and technology generated teaching materials indicated a developing competence in their pedagogical abilities to utilize and apply methods of instructional technologies, and a dire need to interact regularly with others in their field.

Inservice Art Teacher Technology Instruction: The Impact on Professional Growth

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference (SITE) 2007:1 , Mar 26, 2007

A goal of our PT3 project is to enhance inservice art teacher technology skills. Comprehensive instruction is offered in overall use of the computer as a teaching tool in the classroom, and in the use of specific software to develop interactive curriculum materials that incorporated text, photographs, video and sound. This paper examines the overall impact of the training on the K-12 art teachers' professional lives in their school settings and their ability to effectively integrate computer-facilitated technologies (Delacruz, 2004) into instructional materials. Data collected from observations, focus group interviews, and technology generated teaching materials indicated a developing competence in their pedagogical abilities to utilize and apply methods of instructional technologies, and a dire need to interact regularly with others in their field.