Christine Groppe Email & Phone Number

Gift Shop

Mt. Kisco, NY

Kent, NY

Unique, individual fused glass available for sale in various venues in the Hudson Valley. Come see my glass and buy hand crafted one-of-a-kind gifts at Putnam Arts Council this December in Mahopac, NY. http://www.putnamartscouncil.com

Mahopac, NY

Manage all aspects of graphic design for advertising and production of weekly publication.

Carmel, NY

Freelance concept & design of marketing and promotional material.

Provide systems design, problem resolution, day-to-day management, and support for PC and Macintosh workstation, servers, and networks as well as website design and programming.

Assisted in the design and implementation of a complete IT infrastructure for the Museum’s new location at 48 Wall Street in NYC. This included the acquisition, installation, and implementation of a 200+ node network. The network consisted of computers used by the museum store, admissions, exhibits, general office staff, and a server used for file, print.

Initial workstation, network and Exchange Server setup. As needed support and maintenance for workstations, server and network. Coordinate IT efforts in this country with the Korean home office.

Responsibilities included planning, purchasing, integrating, training, troubleshooting, upgrading, and supporting all computer operations for the entire company. Included sole management of an environment with cross platform compatible file services for over 90 Macintosh and Windows workstations. Other responsibilities included Microsoft Exchange Server.

Extensive experience using graphic design programs such as Quark Xpress, Adobe Photoshop, and Illustrator on a daily basis to produce electronic mechanicals and artwork for submission to printers and publishers. The creation and production of all art and animation related to website creation. Later trained and supervised additional artists to handle such.

Management of daily operations with regards to Macintosh computer systems. Facilitated the migration of traditional board mechanicals and typesetting procedures to the Macintosh based desktop publishing and PostScript environment of today. Acted as point person for every software package to be evaluated for use by the company.

Responsible for production of traditional board mechanicals, packaging comps, and stats.