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Catherine George
cathygeorgedesign@gmail.com
Summary: Diverse experience as a developer, manager, and instructor of digital media design and technologies within a wide range of organizations.
Technical:

HTML, CSS, ActionScript, Lingo
Acrobat, AfterEffects, Photoshop, Illustrator
Director, Dreamweaver, Flash, Fireworks, Freehand
FileMaker, Final Cut, Lotus Notes
Microsoft Office, Microsoft Project, Visio
AutoCAD, Architectural Desktop, VectorWorks, DesignWorkshop
Mac OS, Windows

Art Skills: Painting, Drawing, Sculpture, Ceramics, Photography, Animation, Jewelry Design
Experience:

1990 - Present
Project Manager, Digital Media Designer and Developer
Cathy George Design, NY, CO, and CA (formerly MamaMedia)
Provided services for clients including project management, storyboarding, branding, production, graphic design, motion design, and programming of interactive and animation projects. Clients include Apple, Arnowitz Productions, Camaleo, Chase Manhattan, Citicorp, Deloitte & Touche,, GoTrafficInteractive, Honeywell , Jack Morton Productions , NY Metropolitan Museum of Art, Parsons Brinkerhoff, SRI International.

2008 - Present
Instructor
Sessions.edu, New York , NY
Adjunct Online Instructor for Dreamweaver I, Flash Web Site Design, HTML Basics, Web Design 1 courses.

2007 - Present
Instructor
The Art Institute of California, San Francisco , SF, CA
Instructor for Fundamentals and Intermediate Authoring courses.
Bay Area Video Coalition , SF, CA
Instructor for various graphic and web design courses.

2005 - 2007
Course Director
Expression College for Digital Arts, Emeryville, CA
Course Director in the Motion Graphic Design program. Developed and improved curriculum, lectured, assessed students in Interactivity and Screen Design 1 & 2, Animation & Motion Theory, and Final Project courses. Instructor and Lab Instructor in the Core program.

2001 - 2004
Digital Media Instructor, Program Designer,
and Department Chair

New Technology High School, Napa, CA
Curriculum design and instruction of Digital Media courses. Combined the NTHS learning outcomes with California State Standards for Visual Art, incorporating the Buck Institute's "project based learning" methods. Integrated the principles of design, industry standard digital media tools, art history, traditional drawing, critique, and web design throughout curriculum.

1999 - 2001
Project Manager, Digital Media Designer and Developer
MP3.com, San Diego, CA
Project management and art direction of multimedia team that developed hybrid online and offline advertising and promotional programs. Performed all tasks throughout start-up phase to create the first title, which accounted for 64% of the company's revenue that year. Built a unique educational title, using database driven flash animation content, which demonstrated the legal and technical issues associated with MP3 music files.

1996 - 1998
Digital Media Instructor and Program Designer
Metro State College of Denver, Colorado Institute of Art, & Platt College, Denver, CO
Curriculum design and instruction of Graphic Design, Photoshop, Painter, Director, Lingo, and Premiere courses. Designed and implemented demos and tutorials covering the principles of design, the fundamentals of web design, software tools and techniques. Created interactive exams and assessment tools.

1994 - 1996
Digital Media Designer and Developer
MediaLab, Inc, Louisville, CO
Multimedia services and computer based training product developer. Clients included The Denver Art Museum, The Denver Public Library, Founders Fund, TVA, The Gates Corporation, Hewlett-Packard. Produced custom interface with motion graphics and controllers for TVA's headquarters product showroom. Produced one-minute infomercials for Hewlett Packard for a global telecom conference in Geneva, Switzerland, considered best by Hewlett Packard in terms of clarity of message and effectiveness of design.

Education:

Sonoma State University, Sonoma, CA: Green Building Design
Napa Valley College, Napa, CA: AutoCAD, Architectural Desktop
FlashForward Seminars: Actionscript
New Technology Foundation, Napa, CA: Project Based Learning
TreviMedia: Actionscript, Lingo
Media Lab, Inc, Louisville, Co: Lingo
Art Students' League, New York, NY: Painting
Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY: BFA Studies in Art, Anthropology Minor

References:

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