Cheri Painter
Email Address: cheri@prettypinktutu.com
Online Portfolio: www.prettypinktutu.com

Where I'm headed:
Seeking a position that allows me to utilize my skills as a Web designer/HTML programmer with my Multimedia and Streaming Media skills. To further my knowledge in the design field combining the creative aspects of multimedia, and Web design to create cutting edge, visually appealing, creative sites using the latest technology.

My Tools of the Trade:
Programming/Scripting Languages:SMIL, HTML, some ASP and Java Script.
Systems: Win NT4 Workstation, Win95/98, Win 2000, Mac OS 8.x, Mac OS 9.
Software: Adobe Premiere5.0, Media Cleaner Pro, Vegas Video, Front Page 98/2000, Dreamweaver 3, Adobe Photoshop 5.5, Adobe Illustrator 8.0, Fireworks 3, Paintshop Pro, Quark XPress4.0 both Mac. and Win, Visual Interdev, Microsoft Office 2000 Premium.

Where I've come from:
Property Automation Software Corp.
10/01 - Present
Marketing Coordinator/Web Designer/Web Master
Responsible for all aspects of Marketing for Tenant Pro Software. Including maintaining Gold Mine Database, Training Documentation, Website Design and Maintenance, Branding and Distribution.

Other duties include assisting Sales and Technical Support staff with customer calls.

Tools used:
Used Fireworks and PhotoShop for creation of graphics.
Coded the site using Dreamweaver.
GoldMine for client database management.
MS Office Suite as needed for documentation.

Freelance/Consultant
April 2001 - Current
WEB DESIGN and GRAPHICS Currently working on several freelance Web Design projects. Clients include Valor Business Solutions, Valor Telecommunications, ActProActive, Grasso Industries Inc. and Mark Speaker. Utilizing FIREWORKS for graphics and DREAMWEAVER for code. Preformed "JAD" like sessions with Valor for both Valor projects. Preformed Information Architecture duties as well as design duties for Valor projects. Grasso site is a complete redesign project where client's old site was boring and graphically challenged. Performed "JAD" like sessions with Grasso, Mark Speaker and ActProActive to define the "look, feel and content" of the new or redesigned sites. Excellent skills in defining / extracting client needs through proper questions. Redesign Projects included Site Navigational Changes, Content Management, and Graphics in addition to hard coding the WEB Sites.

Tools used:
Used Fireworks for creation of graphics.
Coded the site using Dreamweaver.

http://www.actproactive.com
htp://www.grassoindustries.com

DigiTerra
Nov. 2000 – April 2001
Web Design Specialist for Net Solutions: part of DigiTerra’s branding/design team, currently working on redesigning VisionWeb’s website. Responsible for design and graphic creation as well as any HTML programming.

Tools used:
Used Fireworks for creation of graphics.
Coded the site using Dreamweaver UltraDev.
Used Visual Source Safe to track files.

http://www.digiterra.com

Freelance/Consultant
Oct. 2000 – Dec. 2000
Redesign and clean up of Act Proactive website. Designed new navigation and logo. Cleaned up some existing content as well as adding new sections to the site. Made the site more print friendly.

Tools used:
Used Fireworks for creation of graphics.
Coded the site using Dreamweaver.

http://www.actproactive.com

Personally responsible for research and development of new technologies regarding the use of Streaming Media on both Websites, using SMIL technology and the very latest CODEC’s to offer our syndicated clients a compelling, rich media experience.

Tools used for Web Design and HTML:
Used PhotoShop and Fireworks for creation of graphics.
Coded the site using FrontPage.

Tools used for Streaming Media Creation:
Used Adobe Premiere and Final Cut Pro to capture and digitize video.
Used Media Cleaner to encode the Streaming Video.
Coded video with SMIL to make one video play seamlessly after another making it look like several little videos were one continuous video.

http://www.seeitwork.com
http://www.skytv.net

MCMANN & TATE
Jan. 98 - Nov.99
Web Development team member: incorporated design team ideas into working web sites focusing on the aesthetically pleasing as well as functional, created images for the web, responsible for all html programming with FrontPage, creating Website diagrams using Visio. Past projects have included: the creation and implementation of Brinker Internationals web site, which includes "On The Border", "Chili's", "Maggiano's" and "Romano's Macaroni Grill". Programming forms and asp pages on those sites using Visual Interdev.

Acted as Technical Liaison between Telephony magazine and McMann & Tate. This consisted of documenting, tracking and placing all advertisements for their web site in addition to creating and maintaining an ad management database for the tracking of Telephony's ad banners working closely with their Sales Representatives and clients to insure satisfaction and quality.

Other duties included: weekly updates to web sites, stripping multiple Quark documents for each issue, converting them into html pages and placing them on the site. This included converting any EPS images into Gif's. I was also a Microsoft FrontPage consultant to Brigham Hill Consultancy. Helping them maintain and update their web site.

Tools used:
Used Visio to build site diagrams.
Used FrontPage to code websites.
Built and updated ASP forms using Visual Interdev.
Used PhotoShop and Illustrator to build graphics.
Stripped text out of Quark files using Extensis.

Some of the URL's I worked on while at McMann & Tate

How I got here:
The Art Institute of Dallas, 1994 to 1996
Field of study: Computer Animation

Rose State College, 1989 to 1993
Field of study: Broadcasting

References available upon request