NANCY SHAWN

portfolio:www.nlshawn.com     email: nancy@nlshawn.com
Web designer with strong Flash skills seeking position in web design or multimedia production.

Recent Clients

Seattle Advanced Bodywork Assoc. - design a marketing site for massage clinic with practioner search functions.

CroatiaFest – design an image-rich marketing website for a large cultural event.

The Heart Stuff - design and maintain a commercial site for a small business with a Paypal solution.

Employment History

Web Developer
University of Washington School of Law, Seattle, WA Jan 2007-present
Frontend and backend maintenance of a large institutional site and intranet in asp.net environment. Design and development of group and departmental sites, design and develop Flash objects.

Web Producer and Marketing
Island Books, Mercer Island WA, 2000-November 2006
Design and upkeep of website for mid-size bookstore featuring reviews, contests and event listings. Produce print materials such as flyers, posters, advertisement and press releases for events and special sales

Production Artist, Independent Contractor
Giant Campus, Inc, Seattle WA, June 2006- July 2006
Working within a short deadline, overhauled legacy software course content into new Flash templates and layouts, created and coded in ActionScript new interactive Flash animations such as quizzes, tweaked and debugged legacy Flash animations. Ran QA on over 300 content screens using in-house bug tracker and Visual Safe Source. Tools included FlashMX, Fireworks, Illustrator and Photoshop.

Production Artist Intern
G
iant Campus, Inc, Seattle WA, March 2006-June 2006
Designed Flash animation and interactive objects for CyberCamp software courses including quizzes, vocabulary review, and pop-up content. Designed animations and their ActionScript to be reusable.  Brought legacy content into new Flash templates and  layouts. Tested course content using bug tracker and VSS. Also produced print course materials such as progress trackers using Illustrator and InDesign.

Web Design Intern
Digital Communications Dept., Bellevue Community College, July 2005
Redesigned department site with new typography and color scheme, using CSS layout and following strict accessibility standards set by the college.

Bookseller
Island Books, Mercer Island WA, 2000-November 2006
As a bookseller, provided exemplary customer service to a sophisticated clientele. Toy buyer 2004-2006: Responsible for expanding the inventory of this sideline department and tripling its sales in two years.

Literary Agent
Wales Literary Agency, 1999-2000
Responsible for client foreign rights sales, editorial reading, contract negotiations.

Bookstore Manager
Red&Black Books, Seattle, WA 1994-1999
Inventory purchasing, marketing and event coordination for a small bookstore.

Sales Team Supervisor
DialAmerica Marketing, 1994-1996
Hired & trained sales reps, assured sales quality and performance goals.

Education

Certificate of Achievement, Web Multimedia Authoring, Bellevue Community College, 2006.

Bachelor of Arts, Comparative Literature, Clark University, Worcester MA.

Professional Associations

Seattle Flash Users Group