Lyla Paakkanen Email & Phone Number

Sacramento, California Area

Develop artwork from concept to finished product for small businesses for their products and web sites, using conventional 2D art media and computer graphics such as Adobe Photoshop, Flash and Illustrator and Dreamweaver (html, CSS and ActionScript.Designed web sites. All parts of these sites are my work in collaboration with the client's needs and parameters.Designed editorial pages, brochures and book covers.Illustrated, DVD cover, ad design and logo/branding designs.Designed pattern and color study sets.

Teach and develop course design for Advertising Design, Communication Systems Design, Drawing, Design and Multimedia I and II (Flash I & II

Sacramento, California

Develop artwork from concept to finished product for small businesses for their products, branding and web sites, using conventional 2D art media and computer graphics such as Adobe Photoshop, Flash and Illustrator and Dreamweaver, html, CSS and ActionScript.

Study Design in the Communication Arts program

Courses Taught: Art History, Computer Graphic Design, Drawing, Painting, and Design· Employ both conventional classroom and online methods· Student Art Exhibit Coordinator · Served as a member of the Scholarship Committee· Director of the Otero Art Festival· Served as a member of the steering committee for Girls in the Middle to promote science and technology in education for Secondary school girls.· Served as a member on the Perkins Grant Planning Committee

Courses Taught: Art History, Computer Graphic Design, Drawing, Painting, Watercolor and 2D Design Student Art Exhibit/Founder/Coordinator, Director of the Otero Art Festival, Wrote 2-D Design State Guarantee Transfer Proposal

ourses Taught: Drawing, Art Appreciation, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Flash, Web Design, Design. · Employed conventional classroom, hybrid and on-line teaching methods· Managed enrollment and financial aid and student advisement as a student advisor· Assisted Director in accreditation compliance and curriculum development, certification of instructor qualifications

Courses Taught: Drawing, Art Appreciation, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Flash, Web Design, Managed enrollment and financial aid and student advisement as a student advisor Assisted Director in accreditation compliance and curriculum development, certification of instructor qualifications

Illustrations, animation, storyboards, concept and character designs

Courses Taught: Watercolor Painting, Two-dimensional Design· Developed lesson plans, attend departmental meetings to develop curriculum and address problems· Advised students to their course options for the Art Program.

Courses Taught: Painting, Two-dimensional Design, Drawing, Figure Drawing

Program development manager for the Museum's Ethnic Exhibit Worked with community leaders, Museum PR to promote the program, grants writers for funding. Coordinated exhibits. Scheduled guest artists, performers and demonstrators Developed lessons and trained teachers on the culture and sensitivities of an ethnic group. Children's Art Gallery Curator in the Museum Developed, scheduled and coordinated children's artwork from local and foreign sources.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Fine And Studio Arts

Education record

Master Of Arts, School Of Fine Arts

Animation 2005-2008 Animation Guild

Master Of Arts (M.A.), Fine/Studio Arts, Painting

Master Of Arts - Ma, Fine And Studio Arts, 3.7

Masters Of Arts, Fine Arts

· Writer, director and producer of an original children's play performed by the students at CSUN kinesiology department · Performed.

Bachelor Of Arts, Studio Arts

Education, Instructional Design 2006

Instructional Design, Design Communications Art 2007-9