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Chicago, Il, Us

Lake Forest, Il

Create and update website content in consultation with Dean of Communications depending on requests from LFA faculty and staff members.Assist with site monitoring and maintaining content quality to ensure consistent branding.Work with Finalsite Support Team and LFA IT Department to troubleshoot web issues. Modify elements and layout of website with built in tools and additional html, and css as needed.Fulfill additional web and graphic design duties based on the needs of different communication projects. • Design print collateral for school events and activities. (ex. posters, flyers, postcards,…) • Design and prepare files for print ads. (ex. Chicago Mag, Lake Forest newspaper, …) • Produce supplement digital collateral for ongoing campaigns. • In my time at Lake Forest Academy, some external graphic design projects have been brought in-house, such as the bi-annual Review alumni magazine, and weekly day-planner used by faculty and students.

Chicago, Denver, & Japan

Perform a range of design, art direction, layout and production duties for print/web projects utilizing Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign, in addition to Sharpie markers and tracing paper.Japan-specific projects ranged from New Year greeting cards (nengajo), materials for international group, and school materials such as illustrated flash cards, worksheets and exams.Additional computer expertise: part-time Apple specialist at Micro Center Multi-task and quickly find solutions to technical questions presented by customers.Serve as a "de-facto IT" for Apple consumers, which has broadened my computer knowledge.

A recent graduate of Dev Bootcamp, currently looking for my first job as a junior developer, in the form of an apprenticeship, internship, or full-time position.As a former graphic designer, I enjoy the excitement of finding well designed, and effective solutions to solve new coding challenges.

Greater Chicago Area

Dev Bootcamp, a 19-week intensive training program for aspiring web developers, with a focus on Ruby, Rails, Object Oriented JavaScript (AJAX, JQuery), HTML, CSS, Test Driven Development, Git, Heroku, and Agile Development.The first nine weeks of the curriculum are remote, while the second nine weeks are an immersive in-class experience. The program also addresses intra- and interpersonal strategies to foster optimal learning and teamwork environments.

Northwestern University Campus, Evanston, Illinois

• During the 2017 winter and spring sessions, worked in the Web Development (Gr. 6~8), Science Engineering & Technology Honors (Gr. 6~8), Forensic Investigations (Gr. 4~5) classes.• Assist and observe academically talented students in class work, activities, and problem solving.• Assist instructors with classroom management and record anecdotal notes for student evaluation use.

Greater Chicago Area

Facilitate arrival and departure of guests in busiest museum group admission entrance in the midwest region.

Japan

• Yamagata Gakuin H.S. as a regular staff instructor:Developed curriculum, taught lessons, created exams, and assigned grades for 16(+) credit hours per semester for English classes ranging from 26 to 40 students.Japanese Language Proficiency Exam – Grade 3 • Yoshikawa-shi and Kahoku-cho schools :Assisted Japanese instructors in junior high school English lessons, and acted as the main instructor in English classes at six elementary schools.Created classroom teaching materials, activity sheets, game cards, and props. Completed JET Programme Intermediate Japanese Language Course.Editor or quarterly Yamagata zine, "Bang The Drum," for one year.

Chicago, Il

Created and managed company credentials, and new business presentations using Director, Flash, and After Effects, in addition to building elements with related software.Managed and directed freelancers in multimedia projects.As a production intern I prepared boards, did keylines, and built presentation samples.

Chicago, Il

• Scanned images, made clipping paths, set up style sheets and laid in copy for textbook content.

Web Development

Activities and Societies: Red Panda Cohort 2016Dev Bootcamp is a 19 week intensive study program for web developers, rooted in learning.

Bachelor Of Fine Arts, Graphic Design