Self-employed Boston-area decorative painter, interior designer, color consultant. Create space plans, purchase furnishings, conceive of and paint murals and custom decorative finishes for furniture and walls; schedule and manage installations (electrical contractors, carpenters, wallpaper installers, painters) in private homes. Responsible for sales, marketing, purchasing, project execution, client relations, invoicing. Marilyn solves design problems with ingenuity, creativity and style and provides thoughtful solutions by collaborating with her clients and with her expert design colleagues. In addition to Marilyn’s interior design skills, she also makes unique finishes and murals on walls, furniture and fabric. Marilyn's training is in both technical and visual communication, as well as in painting. She has spent almost 20 years as a graphic artist and has studied and worked with some of the world's most talented decorative artists. Her classes have included trompe l’oeill, grisaille, furniture finishes, mural painting, gilding, airbrushing, scagliola, Venetian plaster, egg tempera, and old master painting design. Marilyn won a scholarship in the art of leaded stained glass at the Decordova Museum.

Greet clients and establish relationships. Transform client needs and desires into thoughtful, compelling, and relevant design plan. Responsible for client meetings, presentation and closing sales. Knowledge of cabinetry, materials, appliances and design trends. Products used: 2020

I help small businesses create and enhance their digital footprint. With 20 years of graphic design and writing experience I create, define and enhance small business owner's professional online image.

Was responsible for creating original MIT Museum ads for print in WGBH Magazine, and online on wgbh.org, wbur.org, web.mit.edu/museum and other MIT web sites. Also responsible for designing and creating ten foot window posters for display on Massachusetts Avenue. Managed, designed and produced quarterly brochure using up to 5-color processes. Also designed and produced rack cards and e-newsletters. Was responsible for maintaining digital marketing photo library. Products used: InDesign, Photoshop, Lightroom, IPhoto, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Patron Mail, Basecamp.

Lead graphic designer for our client's web sites and managed a small production staff of permanent and contract designers. Automated graphics production processes and collaborated with writers, engineers and marketing people to create original web based training products. Incorporated both static and interactive media on our sites.

Created custom graphical user interfaces with illustrator, photoshop and dreamweaver. Set up and maintained a graphic library of elements to make production more efficient. Established graphics standards for web production.

Tested and troubleshooted company's printer driver software on different output devices. Developed and maintained relationships with Adobe, Microsoft, Apple, Corel and other graphics software companies.

Wrote a hardware users guide for an Avid product that was later published and sold with their systems.

Beta tested leading graphic design software of 12+ software packages on pc and macintosh platforms and on different output devices such as film recorders, large format ink jet and dye submlimation printers from multiple vendors. Responsible for documenting bugs, discovering solutions and regularly communicating solutions to people company wide. Developed and maintained relationships with Adobe, Microsoft, Apple, Corel and many other leading graphics software companies. Stayed current on the latest technologies. Trained staff.