Web/Graphic Designer & Marketing Professional
Tasha Wassink
tasha.wassink@trilliumarts.com
www.trilliumarts.com
Summary
Experienced Web/Graphic Designer & Marketing professional, with exceptional skills in communication between different departments to achieve demonstrable growth. Strength in strategy planning, prioritizing, and tactical execution. Demonstrated ability to work independently or with a team. Outstanding problem solving ability.
Excellent skills in HTML, CSS, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Quark Xpress, Macromedia Flash, ColdFusion, Javascript, and other programs.
Experience
Senior Designer
Inspire, Arlington, VA
11/2007 - Present
- Design web elements, UI, and print collateral.
Independent contractor, Web Designer
Finned Friends, Merrill, WI
9/2007 - Present
- Design, program, and maintain website, leading to increased visibility and sales
- Create web application for easy content maintenence
- Search engine marketing and optimization
Independent Contractor, Designer
Inspire, Arlington, VA
6/2007 - 11/2007
- Design web elements, UI, and print collateral.
Web Artist - Graphic Designer - Marketing Co-ordinator/Software
Development
5/2000 - 9/2006
Testmart, San Bruno, CA
TestMart is the leading sales, marketing and online strategy partner for
the test and measurement community.
- Design and programming of websites, contributing to a 300% increase in web traffic in four years, an exponential increase in sales, and profitability in 2005.
- Coordination and liaison between sales, marketing and engineering departments, leading to streamlining of the development process and shorter development cycles.
- Management of several projects including the fulfillment of marketing print collateral, sending of weekly e-mail updates and reports, and prioritization of development projects, while balancing needs of many different internal clients and resources, both human and machine
- Analysis of website traffic patterns for more effective navigation design
- Troubleshooting and repair of website errors leading to decreased down time
Independent contractor, Web Designer
5/2006
Hawaiian Sol, Sunnyvale, CA
- Design, program, and maintain website, leading to increased visibility and sales
- Search engine marketing and optimization
Receptionist
8/1998 - 12/1998
Hair International, Palo Alto, CA
Handled customers for upwards of 30 stylists, took appointments and handled
four phone lines, performed various other tasks necessary to the daily
operation of a salon.
Inspector
5/1997 - 8/1997
Fox Point Sportswear, Merrill, WI
Inspected end products for quality, performed removal of defective components.
Education
Bachelor's Degree, Computer and Video Imaging, Magna Cum Laude
4/2000
Cogswell Polytechnical College, Sunnyvale, CA
Student Body President. Cogswell Presidents' List, National Dean's List,
National Merit Scholar.
Skills
- Adobe Photoshop, 13 years
- HTML 11 years
- CSS 4 years
- Google AdWords 4 years
- Quark Xpress 11 years
- Macromedia Flash, 7 years
- Adobe Illustrator 10 years
- ColdFusion 5 years
- Javascript 4 years
- PHP 2 year
- MySQL 2 year
- Macromedia Dreamweaver 5 years
- 3D Studio Max 4 years
- Microsoft Office 14 years
- Maya 2 years
- Unix shell scripting 2 years
- Java 2 years
- Adobe Premire 4 years
