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EDUCATION:
     1996-2000                    Smith College                                                                         Northampton, MA
     BA in Studio Art, concentrating in Book arts and Graphic Design
            Dean's List                                                                                                          1997, 1998, and 2000
            Received Praxis and Hoxie grants for internship study             May, 1999 and January, 2000 (respectively)
            Cumulative GPA of 3.6


     ART:              Computer design, photography (wet and dry processes), web design, book arts including layout,
                          binding, hand setting type, proofing and printing, lithography, and drafting.

    LANGUAGES:   French, some Italian and Norwegian

   COMPUTERS:   Proficiency in Dreamweaver, PhotoShop, Quark, Illustrator, Pagemaker, HTML, Netscape Composer,
                         Word, Excel, Windows 95, 98,  and NT, Mac systems, Internet, and various other programs. 60wpm.


EXPERIENCE:
   October 2000-present       Univeristy of North Carolina, Environmental Sciences                  Chapel Hill, NC
        Office Assistant to the Faculty
        - designing and maintaining webpages for individual facutly members and courses, planning and
        setting up weekly departmental seminar, editing and formatting manuscripts for publication, organizing
        correspondence within and without the department.

    July - October, 2000        Chapel Hill Florist                                                                     Chapel Hill, NC
        Assistant Manager
        - received, processed and followed customer orders through to delivery, answered six phone lines,
        merchandised, helped customers with both retail sales and flower choices, processed and arranged flowers,
        selected, purchased and cared for plants, solved problems created by untried software, opened and closed
        the store.

    June - July, 2000            Whitehall at the Villa Antiques                                                    Chapel Hill, NC
        Data Entry
        - typed, edited and checked over appraisals of antiques made by the owners.

    Fall, 1999 - May, 2000   Smith College                                                                          Northampton, MA
        Assistant to the Interior Designer and Project Coordinators
        - kept sample and blueprint libraries in order and updated, chose potential furnishings for college facilities,
        copied blueprints, researched vendors and companies for campus projects.

    Fall, 1999 - May, 2000   Smith College                                                                          Northampton, MA
        Advertising Editor, Madeliene Yearbook of Smith College
        - received, processed, and laid out ads for the senior section, answered parents' questions and concerns.

    July, 1999                      Barbara Mathes Gallery                                                                 New York, NY
        Intern for Jane Egan, Gallery Director
        - reorganized gallery's history files, recalled slides from clients, reception.

    June, 1999                     Madeleine Sanchez, Architects                                                       New York, NY
        Intern for Madeleine Sanchez, Principle
        - sketched plans for design of Get Real Art (a gallery), reseached historical precendence for Ladies' Mile
        facade, drew up lamp design, and researched materials.

    June, 1999                    David Beitzel Gallery                                                                     New York, NY
        Intern for Collette Blanchard, Gallery Director
        - created publicity packets and FYI mailings for clients, updated artist biographies, labeled entire back
        collection dealt with incoming slides, data entry, and reception.

    August, 1998                Gallery Americas                                                                              Carrboro, NC
        Intern
        - reorganized and updated fabric samples from upholstery lines, arranged floor displays.

    1998 - May, 2000        Smith College                                                                          Northampton, MA
        Gold Key Tour Guide for the Office of Admissions
        - gave tours of the campus to families and groups, hosted prospective students overnight.

    1997 - 1999                Smith College                                                                           Northampton, MA
        Office Assistant for the Benefits Office, Human Resources
        - filed, organized ongoing projects involving the college staff, dealt with confidential documents and
        records, word processing, data entry, and reception.
 
 

BRIEFLY NOTED:
Other employment not listed here:
    many retail jobs at small boutiques selling women's clothing, dance supplies, etc.
    various phone jobs, one selling season tickets to a theatre company, one raising money from Smith alumnae,
        and the last doing surveys for a marketting research group.
    a few teaching jobs, mostly related to swing dance.
 
 


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