Melissa Kinney

Purple Spider Graphics

Berkley, MA, USA

Work Experience

Purple Spider Graphics

Web/UX Designer & Graphic Artist

-Follows quality standards and procedures to minimize errors and maximize customer satisfaction.
-Worked with customers to understand requirements and provide exceptional service.
-Implement websites into hosting accounts.
-Promote brand identity by creating company logos and delivering attractive, user-friendly and unique websites.
-Creates wireframes, screen-flow diagrams interactive prototypes.
-Produces sample sites and receives feedback about draft sites.
-Assist customers in choosing domain names, completing registrations and maintaining websites and web hosting accounts.
Creates visually stunning websites for clients.

Uses Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign & CorelDraw to create images and layouts for thousands of projects.

Develops collateral such as display, marketing and packaging materials to support product branding strategies.

Uses Illustrator, CorelDraw and Photoshop to develop product mockups and prototype designs.
December 2003 - Present Massachusetts, United States

Camelot Enterprises

Social Media Administrator & Art Director

Responsible for production of all pertinent design work, including print & digital marketing materials.

Manages social media campaigns with intent to engage customers & target future prospects.

Excellent interpersonal & presentation skills for correspondence with customers, vendors, sales representatives, & production department members.

Provides technical assistance to team members in day-to-day troubleshooting.

Assists with development and implementation of several tracking &
company-wide efficiency procedures to increase productivity and improve
interdepartmental communication.

Creation of digital filing system.

Provided informal training to sales department regarding the significance of branding, contributing to Camelot's success in becoming the preferred apparel vendor for Beth Israel Lahey Health, a health care system consisting of 13 hospitals, 4,000+ physicians and 35,000+ employees.

Development of both written and video training materials for team members.

Engages social media audience by developing visually appealing content.
November 2017 - Present Massachusetts, United States

UserTesting

Usability Consultant

Complete pre-determined tasks & provide feedback on the aesthetics, effectiveness & functionality of websites, prototypes & general software interfaces. Testing done on mobile & PC devices.

Organization allows clients to rate the usefulness of the testers’ report. (Current ranking: 5 out of 5 stars).
October 2014 - Present Mountain View, California, United States

Independence University

Graphic Arts Instructor, Adjunct

Conduct classes through discussion & live sessions to create professional relationships & provide context for each student’s individual education background.

Preparing & grading assignments, in addition to providing substantive feedback related to real-world application.

Maintenance of students records (grades, attendance, etc.) is required.

Communicate pro-actively with campus administration regarding student issues.
October 2018 - July 2019 Utah, United States

Valassis Communications

Freelance Graphic Designer

Developed print materials such as brochures, menus, and signs.

Applied knowledge of production to create high-quality images.

Created digital image files for use in digital and traditional printing
methods.

Completed final touches for projects such as image sizes and font selection.

Used Photoshop, InDesign & Illustrator to create images and layouts.
September 2005 - May 2019 Massachusetts, United States

Adlife Marketing

Creative/Production Artist

Coordinated vision with customers, marketing and project managers.

Created digital and print layouts for diverse materials.

Applied knowledge of printing standards to create high-quality images.

Developed collateral such as display, marketing and packaging materials to support product branding strategies.

Developed creative design for marketing packages, including print materials, brochures, banners and signs.
December 2014 - December 2015 Rhode Island, United States

Shirts, Ink

Office Manager and Graphic Artist

Creation and completion of all graphic work using Corel Draw and Adobe Illustrator (PC-based platorm) while also using large format printers and plotter cutters. Acquired basic knowledge of embroidery machinery and digitizing. Hands-on experience with manual screenprint press and heat-seal machinery.

Office Manager responsibilities include customer reception, quotations for screen printing jobs, creation of filing system, product inventory, shipping and job scheduling. Quickbooks used for invoicing clients.
May 2006 - March 2008 Massachusetts, United States

Stonehill College

Art History Slide Library Consultant

Scanning and digital retouching of art history images for cataloguing in Extensis Portfolio for a search engine for students and faculty.
June 2009 - December 2010 Easton, Massachusetts, United States

Education

Southern New Hampshire University

Master of Science in IT, Concentration in Web Design & Development

May 2016 - November 2019

Stonehill College

Bachelor of Arts

August 2000 - May 2004 Easton, Massachusetts, United States

Coyle-Cassidy High School

High School Diploma

August 1996 - May 2000 Taunton, Massachusetts, United States

Skills

Adobe CC, AGILE Processes, Bootstrap, Corel Draw, CSS, Google Suite, HTML, InVision, JavaScript, Microsoft Office, Pulse Digitizing Software, Quark Xpress, SaaS, Social Media, Wireframing, WordPress,