Me as a Ceramic Artist

Emily Carr College of Art and Design (currently "Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design")
1990 - 1994
Studio with a major in Ceramics

Awards/Shows

• 2004 March - Part of NCECA - Porcelain Dragon at Indianapolis Art Center

  Focus on Ceramics at Indianapolis Art Center - In honor of the National Council on Education in the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) annual conference being held in Indianapolis for the first time, the Art Center will host a series of exhibitions and programs highlighting ceramics and clay artists.

• 1997 October- Solo exhibition - Searching at Gallery of BC Ceramics, Vancouver
• 1996 October- Group exhibition - Special K’s Eclectic Voyage at Gallery Nova, Vancouver.
• 1996 June- Juried exhibition - Off The Wall at Canadian Craft Museum, Vancouver.
• 1994 - Being selected as one of the two graduates to represent the class of 1994 in the Exhibition 64-94 The Contemporary Decades, which celebrates the creative achievements of graduates of the Vancouver School of Art/Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design.

Summary

Currently working as a Front-End Web Developer for Jobvite and a Freelance Web Designer designing and maintaining several Green business websites.

Specialties

Frontend Web Developer

Experience

Front-End Web Developer - Jobvite

November 2010 – Present

Responsible for CSS, HTML, XHTML production, and JavaScript and jQuery integration of web sites. Worked closely with designers and programmers to fulfill clients’ requests.

Owner - GreenWay Consulting LLC

June 2006 – Present (6 years 9 months)

Webmaster of Indiana Living Green magazine’s website: responsible for managing contents, designing layout, analyze web traffic statistics, promoting on the web, and answering inquiries.

Setup, and design several local Green business and non-profit organization’s websites:

• Earth Charter Indiana - http://earthcharterindiana.org
• Sustainable Indiana 2016 - http://sustainableindiana2016.org
• Carmel Green Initiative – http://carmelgreen.org
• Carmel Clay Schools Green Team – http://ccsgreenteam.org
• Hoosier Gardener – http://hoosiergardener.com

Front-End Web Developer - Usability Counts

February 2010 – December 2010

Responsible for CSS, HTML, XHTML production, and JavaScript and jQuery integration of web sites. Worked closely with designers and programmers to fulfill clients’ requests.

Projects involved:

• Jobvite Candidate User Interface
• Online Marketing Summit – http://onlinemarketingsummit.com
• Online Marketing Institute – http://onlinemarketinginstitute.org

Project Coordinator - Roche Diagnostics

May 2006 – December 2008

Work with US and Global Marketing to coordinate and track the Inform meter firmware upgrade (2007-2008) and Inform Base Unit Upgrade (2006) for 1800+ hospital accounts

Receive and process appointment and faxback forms on a daily basis, track confirmation numbers and inventory levels using SAP, and update the database for all contractors involved in the firmware upgrade to all North American hospital accounts

Process and approve weekly expense reports for all contractors

Work with team members to solve technical and scheduling problems when they arise to maintain project deadline

Work with hospital contacts to perform firmware upgrade process in timely manner to ensure all meters and equipment meet FDA compliance.

Field Upgrade Representative: Inform Base Unit - Roche Diagnostics

November 2005 – April 2006

Responsible for traveling to and upgrading all hospital accounts throughout the state of Indiana. Job duties included the following:

• Contacting and scheduling hospital accounts
• Ordering correct quantity of units for each customer
• Working with hospital Point of Care contacts to perform upgrade

Skills & Expertise

• Web Development
• Web Design
• CSS
• HTML
• SASS
• User Interface Design
• Photoshop
• Wordpress
• Dreamweaver
• CMS
• jquery
• JavaScript
• Graphic Design
• Illustrator

Education

Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design - Fine Art Studio, Ceramics

1990 – 1994

Ming Chuan University - Commercial Design

1985 – 1987

I can be reached at:

dragon@margaretdesign.com