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Mathew Graves - email me Graphic Designer / Web Designer / Website Development |
| EXPERIENCE | 9/2000 - 10/2000 | Network Six | Warwick, RI |
| Freelance Web Designer |
| I was contracted by Network Six to work on one of their clients projects. I was asked to deliver three template headers for a new website. The stipulation for the headers was they needed to be eye catching and also function at multiple browser resolutions. To view the results please point your browser to http://www.matthewgraves.com/websites/dhs_child.html |
| 8/2000 - 9/2000 | Network Six | Warwick, RI |
| Freelance Web Designer |
| I was contracted by Network Six as a freelance web designer. This project was the design and implementation of a website for one of their clients. This project entailed me the design, and creation of a working website, which would then have the ability to have e-commerce integrated into it. So the goal of this project was not only to develop a web site that was easily navigatable for the end user, was eye catching, but also was scalable. This project was done over a six week period under the supervision of the project manager April Cox. To visit this site point your browser to http://www.amsconsulting.cc |
| 9/1998 - 8/2000 | Rhode Island College WebTeam | Providence / RI |
| WebTeam Supervisor |
| I worked for two years as the Rhode Island College (RIC) Web Team Supervisor which entails the duties of supervision and creation web site for RIC. I functioned as the webteam foreman for the RIC WebMaster. The WebMaster, my immediate supervisor, and I met with the college's many administrative and academic departments in order to help them form a web presence. From there the projects moved to the RIC webteam which I helped supervise. The departmental sites were then designed by myself or one of the other webteam workers. If I was not designing the site personally I helped create and point the project in the proper direction with the college's current image. In short my duties were to meet with departments (clients) and help them flesh out their ideas, then assign the project, oversee the web site creation and also maintain current websites. |
| 5/1998 - 9/1998 | Network and User Services - Rhode Island College | Providence / RI |
| Web Designer |
| Web Designer: I was assigned the tasks of designing visual imagery to represent college department sites and also work with various college staff in developing their college homepages. I also performed workshops to teach departments how to update their websites by teaching them Microsoft FrontPage. These workshops were based on a small tutorial package that I created to go over the easier steps of creating new pages from templates, adding new content to the departments websites, basic web typography, and linking web pages together. |
| 5/1996 - 7/1996 | Stop & Shop | Warwick / RI |
| Floor Personnel |
| I was responsible for restocking shelves, and making sure store isles were presentable and also assisting customers with their shopping needs. |
| 10/1995 - 5/1998 | Network and User Services- Rhode Island College | Providence / RI |
| Help Desk Personel |
| I was responsible for providing help to the college student body who used the campus labs. This entailed the knowledge of Microsoft Office, and the ability to troubleshoot various problems that students were having with their computers. The position of Help Desk personnel also the responsibility of answering incoming phone calls of college faculty and help solve their technical problems. Responsible for helping students with computer problems and answering questions over the phone. |
| EDUCATION | 5/2000 | Rhode Island College | US-Rhode Island-Providence |
| Bachelor's Degree |
| Graduated Rhode Island College, magna cum laude in 2000. -B.A. Graphic Design, Faculty of Arts and Sciences The B.A. in Graphic Design is a curriculum in which students are exposed to various art influences and have a traditional art background starting with Foundations courses of Drawing and Design and then moving the student into his/her foucus area. The BA from the Art Department at Rhode Island College is a strong one because it affords the student the chance to have many free electives in which they can choose from any of the other art courses or other academics course to help spawn creativity and new problem solving skills of the students. Also this will help broden the prespectives and minds of the students. The Graphic Design focus starts the student in the tradiontal methods of cut and paste creation, and then moves them into the area of elctronic designing while still maintaining the idea of creating an idea and then executing it on the computer. The classes for the degree deal with the idea of creating a visual experience for audience through different projects which range from logo, business letterhead, and evelope creation to full four color eight-page double spread broshure. The professors also push the students to learn the standard programs of Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Pagemaker, and Quark Express. They also embrace the new multimedia aspects of Graphic Design projects with Macromedia Director, Flash, Dreamweaver, and Fireworks. All of this knowledge helps the student execute their ideas for their projects with new fresh ideas and methods. |
| Rhode Island College | US-Rhode Island-Providence |
| Bachelor's Degree |
| Graduated Rhode Island College, magna cum laude in 2000. -B.S. Graphic Communications, Industrial Technology |
| SKILLS | Skill Name | Skill Level | Last Used | Experience |
| "Macromedia Dreamweaver" website design | Expert | Currently used | 3 years |
| "Photoshop" for website design and graphic design | Expert | Currently used | 4 years |
| "Fireworks" for website design and graphic design | Intermediate | Currently used | 3 years |
| "HTML" for debugging | Intermediate | Currently used | 3 years |
| "Director" for multimedia productions | Intermediate | Currently used | 2 years |
| "Flash" for web design | Intermediate | Currently used | 2 years |
| "Quark Express" for pagelayout | Intermediate | Currently used | 4 years |
| "Pagemaker" for pagelayout | Intermediate | Currently used | 4 years |
| "FrontPage" for web design and development | Intermediate | Currently used | 3 years |
| "Adobe Illustrator" for design and layout | Expert | Currently used | 4 years |
| "Microsoft Office" knowledge of | Intermediate | Currently used | 4 years |
| "Windows 98/95/NT" knowlege of OS | Intermediate | Currently used | 5 years |
| "Macintosh" knowlege of OS | Intermediate | Currently used | 5 years |
| "Management" managed the RIC webteam | Intermediate | Currently used | 2 years |
| "Web Design" | Intermediate | Currently used | 3 years |
| "Graphic Design" | Intermediate | Currently used | 3 years |
| ADDITIONAL INFORMATION | Deans List: Fall 1995,1996, 1997, 1999 Spring: 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000 Providence Graphic Arts Association Scholarship: Jan 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000 First Place Gutenburg Award, PrePress A - Electronic Publishing 1998 Providence Graphic Arts Association Outstanding Student of the Year 1998, 2000 |