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WORK EXPERIENCE

FREELANCE DESIGNER: Various Clients - 2016 - Ongoing

Web design, consultation, consulting for events and special activities. Design management and project management.

REAL ESTATE BROKER: EXP Realty 2017 - ongoing - licensed and active realtor in New Mexico

WEB DESIGNER / UX DESIGN: Quindigo Management January 2020 - Fall 2022 - database management, UX design and front end design of multiple websites fro the clients of Quindigo Management

STUDIO MANAGER / PRODUCTION: Jessi Highet Studio Fall 2019 -  spring 2020 textile dying and finishing for fashion, studio management, ordering and purchasing, schedule coordination

DESIGNER/ASSISTANT GARDENER, Blue Dhalia Fall 2019 - Spring 2020

Graphic design, landscape renderings, field work

OUTREACH/EDUCATION COORDINATOR,  Currents New Media Festival Spring 2016 - Summer 2019

in school education programs throughout northern New Mexico, intern management/program creation, coordinator for at risk youth internship program

 

ASSISTANT TO THE DIRECTORS (+):  Currents New Media Festival Spring 2016 - Fall 2019

event planning, website and database management, logistical oversight for the festival, employee scheduling, artist liaison, social media management, volunteer coordination, graphic design, non-profit administrative assistance.

ARTIST ASSISTANT: Zahra Farmanfarmaian Spring 2015 - 2018

interior design, fabrication, archiving and preservation of heirloom art and antiques, personal assistant work

 

CO-PRODUCER: Steam Radio Syndicate August 2013 - 2014

Production manager for a live radio show featuring over 100 guests, website management, writing, meeting facilitation

 

DESIGNER: LIfeEdited/Graham Hill August 2012 - March 2013

Service design of a sharing system, research, business model generation, personal assistant 

 

DESIGN INTERN: Pilot-Projects Design Studio LLC SUMMER 2012

Project design and management for “Respect the Fountain” campaign, event planning, graphic design, grant writing.

 

WORK-STUDY: Shareable NY Conference with DESIS Lab and Parsons School of Design. FALL 2011

Event planning, content and graphic design for conference presentation

 

STUDIO ASSISTANT: Jim Osman SPRING 2011

video transcription, video editing, gallery installation

 

WRITER/ SCOUT: Overflow Magazine, SPRING 2011

Magazine distrubution, advertising sales scouting, culture scouting. Article: “Members Only” in Overflow issue 9.

 

 

AWARDS & ACCOMPLISHMENTS

ELECTRICITE DE FRANCE SUSTAINABLE DESIGN COMPETITION June 2012

Design Team Finalist, project displayed in the EDF Olympic pavillion at 2012 London olympics.

 

FIELD NOTES FROM THE GOWANUS Oct-Dec 2011

Artist in workshop & exhibition at the Sheila Johnson Design Center, in collaboration with The Canary Project

 

AMPLIFYING SOCIAL INNOVATION LOWER EAST SIDE Summer 2010

Partnership with IDEO, Parsons DESIS Lab, and The Rockefeller Foundation, exhibition in Henry St. Settlement Gallery

 

RENEWSCHOOL (New School sustainability club), 2009- 2012

Co-Chair, Member Improving sustainabilty efforts on campus, organized trip for 25 students to Power Shift

EDUCATION

PARSONS NEW SCHOOL FOR DESIGN

2012 BFA: Integrated Design: Sustainability

Graduated with academic & departmental honors, class speaker and deans list

 

PROGRAMS SKILLS and TRAININGS

PROGRAMS: Excel, Google Suite, Photoshop, In Design, Illustrator, Final Cut Pro, Sketch Up, Wix, Wordpress, Reaper, Trello

DESIGN SKILLS: Service and Systems Design, Design Thinking, Co-Creation, Graphic Design, UX, Web Design, Landscape 

COURSEWORK: Urban ecosystems, Design Thinking - tool kit design for communities, Life Cycle Analysis,  Design Methodology and strategy for business planning, Art and ecology, Facilitation, Community organization, Alternative Economies. 

OTHER QUALIFICATIONS: Advanced spanish speaker, tree care and planting, drivers licence.

 

REFERENCES

Frank Ragano: Co-Executive Director of CURRENTS New Media connect@currentsnewmedia.org (phone number available upon request)

Marja Martin: Owner of Paloma Restaurant (freelance design/real estate client) marja@palomasantafe.com

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