Gina M. Laster Email & Phone Number

Cincinnati, Ohio, United States

I'm currently creating a website to migrate my training form onsite to online. The focus of my training is to provide students with a thorough understanding of how their software works, and give them the skills they need to understand what to do with their tools. There are a million and one tutorials that teach you how to design and get the “cool” out of applications like Photoshop. But most of that training is focused on design, without enough emphasis being given to what things are and why they are needed. More often than not, the instructors are excellent designers and technicians, but they’re terrible teachers. Without mastery of your tools, you’re handicapped, crippled by a toolbox full of gadgets you have to guess at how to use. You need to walk before you can run. We give you the skills you need to not only walk and run…we give you the wings you need to fly!

United States

I design awesome websites and create amazing art for my clients

As a contract instructor, training focus was primarily on the Adobe Creative Suite, specifically Photoshop, InDesign and Acrobat.

As a contract instructor, taught the Adobe Creative Suite of products, specializing in Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Acrobat, Flash & Dreamweaver.

A contract instructor primarily in Adobe Creative Suite, specifically Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, and Acrobat with occasional courses in Flash and Dreamweaver. Also some QuarkXPress.

Trained Adobe products for Ledet, including Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Acrobat, Adobe Premiere. Also trained QuarkXPress.

Project Manager/Producer for Ogilvy & Mather Advertising. As project lead for the interactive development team, she scheduled hours, allocated resources and personnel, and personally designed web sites for high-profile clients like Ameritrade and Dynegy.

Trained Adobe Creative Suite products, particularly Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator and Acrobat.

Led the development team in the production of 26 tutorial CD-ROMs for First Chicago Bank in conjunction with its merger as BankOne. Project included the design and development of extensive animated tutorials and tests. Animated and coded educational interactive games and simulations intended to acquaint new hires and merger-acquired employees with the bank’s account management systems.

Trained Macromedia's Authorware software for Allen to clients wishing to learn how to build simulations and computer-based training applications.

Education record

Activities and Societies: Varsity Cheerleader, Gymnastics, Band & Orchestra, Spanish Club

Broadcast Journalism, Spanish

Activities and Societies: I studied advanced linguistics in the Junior Year in Spain program at the Universidad de Valencia in Valencia.

Adv. Spanish Linguistics

Activities and Societies: Adv. Spanish Grammar, Spanish Phonetics & Syntax, Spanish History, Spanish Literature & Poetry