Alexa Chipman
B.F.A. aba Graphic Design
theladywashington@yahoo.com
1680 Baywood Drive Petaluma, CA 94954

Technical Skills:

Adobe Photoshop
Photo prep, web design, collage and print preparation
Adobe Imageready
Creating animated advertising banners and web design
Adobe Illustrator
To design logos and scalable art for print and web
Adobe InDesign
To develop layouts for print
Adobe Acrobat
Creating and distilling for publication
Audacity
Radio spot mixing, podcasts, audio drama
Colour Theory
For best presentation and response from viewers
CreLoaded
E-commerce shopping cart system
CSS
For web design formatting
Digital Photography
Stock photography and specific works for a job
Cross-platform
Experience in macs and pcs
Digital Video
Documentaries and presentations from pre-production, shooting to editing
Dreamweaver
For creation of web documents easily editable by others
FLASH MX
Used for brief animation and web site creation
HTML
To create more streamlined web sites without a program
iLife
The entire macintosh suite
IMovie
For editing video quickly and easily
Microsoft Word
Publishing and document creation
Painter
To create graphics for print and web
PHP for web, non-MySQL
For such things as guestbooks, counters and includes.
Quark XPRESS
Layout for print development
Quicktime Pro
Basic music and video editing
Wordpress
Design and setting up the blogging system

Work Experience:

Created over 400 web sites since 1997 both commercial and non-profit.

Offered custom free graphics for web sites from 2000-2005 for approximately 300 grateful clients. Graphics ranged from advertising banners to complete layouts.

Project manager for the Sonoma County Mobilehome Owners Association web site in 2003. Worked with a group of three, including coordinating the programmer and designer who were constantly at odds with each other.

Tutor in web design and layout over the internet and taught nearly thirty people html and assisted around one hundred webmasters to improve their sites through reviews and online critiques.

Intern at P&H Creative Group from Summer 2004 to Spring 2006 and hired as a Designer in February, 2006 where created print campaigns, advertisements, web site alterations and logo designs.

Contract Web programmer at Sloat Design Group beginning in Fall, 2007

Contract Web programmer/designer at Torme Design beginning in Fall, 2007

Teaching Experience:

Tutor in web design and programming over the internet and to local clients as well as a member of several web site review boards from 2002 - 2004.

Taught drawing and basic colour theory through New Song School in 2006.

Tutor in web design and the Adobe Creative Suite for elementary school children Fall 2007 - Spring 2008.

Guest lecturer and consultant at Dominican University of California webzine class in Summer, 2008.

Exhibitions:

2006 October 13 to 2007 January 20
Nursing Simulation Lab, San Rafael
Group Exhibition with two drawings from the Balclutha Series

2006 August 22 to Sept 26
Marin Civic Center: Supervisor Adam's Office, San Rafael
Balclutha Series: "Mizzen Peak" and "Cape Horn"

2005 April 7 to May 7
San Marco Gallery, San Rafael
Far & Away book and web site.

2003 Fall
SRJC, Petaluma
Charcoal Drawings.

2003 December
La La Cafe, Petaluma
The pirate series, and hat painting.

Photography:

Approved stock photographer for istockphoto, scandinavianstockphoto and dreamstime.

Voice Acting:

Voice actor and writer at Pendant Productions, BrokenSea Audio Productions, Imagination Lane Audio Productions, and Darker Projects.

Education:

2005 Dominican University of California B.F.A. Summa Cum Laude, aba Digital Art, Graphic Design Emphasis.

Extensive courses at SRJC Santa Rosa Computer Sciences Department including web graphics courses, multimedia development and mastering of Adobe programs while on the Dean's List and a member of the exclusive group for academic achievement Phi Theta Kappa. Several of the courses were for an actual client.

Earned the Adobe Photoshop Certificate from SRJC in 2002.

Adobe Certified in Photoshop 6.0

Created and Learned many online tutorials since 1997 where acquired knowledge in the Adobe programs, video production and basic php skills.