Clare Prowse

Designer & Developer

San Francisco, CA, USA
Writer, drawer, thinker person.

Work Experience

Freelance

Front End Web Developer & Designer

Developed websites and designed logo and branding materials for companies in the San Francisco Bay Area, Halifax, NS, and Toronto, ON.

Clients: Community Agency, Bicycle Law, Polymetis Tech, Dalhousie University's Norman Newman Centre for Entrepreneurship, Clean Simple, OpenTable, Rennovia Inc, Lalco Residency, Comp 4 Creative, KeiKaiKoa, Life After Gluten, Royale, Wrapped In Plastic Jazz, Artifax Vintage & Collectables, Polymetis Tech
September 2010 - Present Nova Scotia, Canada

Hotel Delta

Producer & Creative

Produced Products Are Hard, a product development conference, in San Francisco and in Melbourne, Australia.

Produced, wrote narrative scripts, and recorded voiceover for Bedtime Journeys, a children's guided meditation app.
January 2013 - November 2013 San Francisco, California, United States

Products Are Hard

Event Producer

Designed brand logo and identity, and copywrote emails and promotional materials for the event.

Organized event logistics, secured sponsorship and ran social media for the event.
January 2013 - November 2013 San Francisco, California, United States

Products Are Hard

Event Producer

Designed brand logo and identity, and copywrote emails and promotional materials for the event.

Organized event logistics, secured sponsorship and ran social media for the event.
October 2013 - October 2013 Melbourne, Australia

Publicis & Hal Riney

Creative Intern

Worked on accounts for T-MOBILE and PAYPAL, helping develop concepts and write headlines for print and direct mail.

Worked directly with Creative Directors on a pitch for an international client in partnership with Publicis' New York office. Developed ideas and concepts, wrote manifestos and spec ads.
October 2012 - December 2012 San Francisco, California, United States

One Big Agency

Creative Intern

ONE BIG AGENCY (formerly Bureau Pindakass) is a creative agency in Amsterdam run by Erick Wunsch, former ECD of BBDO Netherlands.
The OBA family includes top Dutch photography agency AAP AMSTERDAM, and the innovative brand identity firm BLENDER57.

Concepted and wrote for accounts for NEDERLAND LACROSSE and REALLY GOOD JUICES.

Concepted for The 23 Foundation account with creatives from 180 AMSTERDAM and BLENDER57.

Studied under top creatives from WIEDEN + KENNEDY AMSTERDAM & 180 AMSTERDAM.

Concepted, wrote and produced projects for student awards shows, including a D&AD YELLOW PENCIL winning project for Spotify.
October 2011 - March 2012 Amsterdam, Netherlands

Education

HackerYou

Front-End Dev Bootcamp

HackerYou's Front End Development Bootcamp is a 9-week immersive program that teaches HTML5, CSS3, Sass, responsive design, design theory, JavaScript, jQuery, APIs and PHP (WordPress), as well as workflow tools including Gulp, Git and the Command Line.
January 2016 - March 2016 Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Miami Ad School (MAS) - San Francisco

Portfolio Program - Creative Advertising

Completed the Miami Ad School program at the San Francisco base school.
April 2012 - September 2012 San Francisco, California, United States

Miami Ad School (MAS) - Madrid

Portfolio Program, Creative Advertising

October 2010 - September 2011 Madrid, Spain

Zhejiang University

Certificate in Chinese Language and Culture

May 2005 - June 2005 Hangzhou, China

Mount Allison University

Bachelor of Music

Majored in Voice (classical technique) and Composition
September 2003 - May 2007 Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada

Languages

English (Native),
Spanish (Fluent),
French (Advanced),
Italian (Conversational),

Skills

Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Ajax/APIs, Copywriting, Costume Design, CSS, Graphic Design, HTML, Illustration, JavaScript, Jazz Vocals, Jquery, Photography, Responsive Development, Scriptwriting, Selling Escargot, Songwriting, Typography, Ukulele,