Sue Smith

CREATIVE PRODUCER INFORMATION ARCHITECT

INTERFACE DESIGNER USER EXPERIENCE MODELING

404-222-1111 (home)
333 Park Ave. #11
Atlanta, GA 22222
smith@trendy.com
www.trendy.com/portfolio

RESULTS-ORIENTED NEW MEDIA PRODUCTIONS

* Built an Interactive Research Studio for the the Public Service Activities web
portal (1998-2001). Site redesign, launched October 1999
(www.clemson.edu/public), gets more hits than the Clemson Home Page. With a team
of web consultants, developed Studio Manual, Consulting Training & Procedure
Guide, Web Design Standards & Specifications, & a formal Usability Study (with
coded video data).

* Electronic Media, Arts, & Communication (EMAC) Web Site received

Best of RPInfo 1996 (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute). EMAC Web recruitment
effort & program development doubled enrollment in a single year & helped gain
national attention.

* Applied same dual-purpose web design as with EMAC to RSVP, Rensselaer's

prestigious distance learning program (1997-98) for recruitment & e-learning.

OTHER AWARDS

Macromedia Director Poetry/Animation/Voice/Music & Photography Projects won

McKinney creative writing awards at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1994-97.
Award of Achievement, Society for Technical Communication, 1996 Publications
Competition, Lighting Research Center Partner's Day Posters. Runner-up Lily
Peter Fellowship, Poetry, University of Arkansas, 1988.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Proficiency: Director, Flash, & Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Illustrator, Freehand,

Premier, PageMaker, Quark, Excel, FileMaker Pro, HTML.
Basic Knowledge: UNIX, javascript, XML, MySQL, PHP.

SELECTED URLs

Flash Portfolio: www.trendy.com/smith

Clemson Public Service Activities Web Portal: www.clemson.edu/public
South Carolina Botanical Garden Web Site: www.clemson.edu/scbg
T.E. Garrison Arena Web Site: www.clemson.edu/garrison
Institute on Family & Neighborhood Life Web Site: www.clemson.edu/ifnl
EMAC Site Archive (original site has since been redesigned):
www.trendy.com/archive/llc/emac
COMPUTER-ASSISTED TEACHING & E-LEARNING

Teaching Assistant: Language, Literature & Communication, Rensselaer Polytechnic

Institute, Troy, NY (1994-96).

Gifted & Talented Summer School Teacher: Arkansas Governor's School, Conway, AR
(June-July, 1994, 1993, 1992, 1990).

Teaching Assistant: English, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville (1988-90).

INTERNET RESEARCH, CONSULTING, & CONTRACT WORK

Director, PSA Interactive Resources Studio: Clemson Public Service Activities.

Implemented a redesign of the PSA web site portal & PSA client sites.
Approximate amount funded over 3 years: $100,000. www.clemson.edu/public (1998-
present).

Web/Computer Consulting: Cisco Systems, Albany, NY branch. Created database for

the NYS government contract to access through a local node of the Cisco Intranet
(1998).

Seminar / Site Workshop for the UNISYS Transportation Sector Marketing Group,
Bluebell, PA (July 1995).

Marketing & Recruitment Assistant: Electronic Media, Arts, & Communication (EMAC
Program). NSF Research Assistant: Design Conference Room for Computer-Supported
Collaborative Work (CSCW). Language, Literature & Communication, Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY. (1996-97, 1993).

PHOTOGRAPHY & GRAPHIC DESIGN

Design & Marketing Assistant: RSVP: Office of Continuing & Distance Education
(1997-98).

Graphic Designer: Lighting Research Center, School of Architecture. Rensselaer

Polytechnic Institute (1996-97).

Design & Production Intern: University of Arkansas Press, Fayetteville, AR

(1989). Assisted national award-winning book designers.

EDUCATION

Master of Fine Arts, Creative Writing, Poetry: University of Arkansas,

Fayetteville, 1990 (60 credit terminal degree).

Bachelor of Arts: University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, 1985.

Major: Journalism. Minor: English.

REFERENCES & ENDORSEMENT PORTFOLIO

Available from
Career Development Office
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
DCC 202
Troy, NY 11111