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{ Christine Gilmore }
{www.christinegilmore.com} • E-mail: info@christinegilmore.com
Experience
Gilmore Design Group Inc. { www.gilmoredesigngroup.com }
President / Founder
August 2001 - Present
Established a consulting and design firm specializing in corporate branding, print design and website design services.

This position requires my ability to manage freelancers, act as project manager for my client projects, estimate and submit proposals for future projects, set and manage client expectations, deal with any conflicts or discrepancies that may arise, and design and develop print and web design projects.

Some of our clients include: PriscillaPresley.com, Hewlett Packard, HighBeam Research, Newser, Esprit Productions Inc., Vintage Inc., just to name a few.

Westwood College, Woodridge, IL
Instructor

August 2002 - December 2002
Instructor for GD241 Web Page Design for the August & October Term

Elgin Community College, Elgin, IL
Instructor

August 2001 - May 2002
Instructor for GRD 220 Web Graphics for the fall semester 2001
Instructor for the morning and evening classes of GRD 221 Web Page Design, for the spring semester 2002

christinegilmore.com { www.christinegilmore.com }
Freelance Web Designer
January 1999 - Present
Established freelance web designing consultancy based on referrals from satisfied clients and the experience of designing and developing more than 40 websites from 1999 to 2001.

Some clients include:
Sears.com. Worked as a integral part of the team which concepted, designed, protyped the new softines (clothing, jewelry, & for the home) areas of sears.com. These areas were integrated into Sears.com in fall 2004.
Accenture. Designed web page layouts and graphical elements for a few select clients.
Hanna Hodge: User Experience Architects. Created a full working HTML prototype for their client.
FastWeb Inc. Designed and developed numerous email newsletters.


AGENCY.COM Ltd., Chicago, IL
Web Designer
April 2000 - November 2000
Responsible for concepting, storyboarding, designing and developing client brand boards, mood boards, and comps.
Responsible for taking comps to the development stage. Communicating with site builders, creative directors, project managers, and the client.
Clients include: Jockey, Medtronic and Omnicom Group.

Xpedior Inc., Chicago, IL
Web Designer
May 1999 - April 2000
Responsible for designing the "look and feel" of more than 10 client websites
Art Director for a multi-lingual telecommunications project. Supervised four web designers and two site builders. Successfully coordinated production so that all graphic elements were built, optimized, named, and integrated into the database correctly. Successfully communicated with the programming team to accomplish design goals.
Xpedior's sole creative contact to Bell Canada division of Bell World.
Clients include: Bell World, HA-LO, American Hospital Association, and Digital Work.

Online Technologies Corp., Ann Arbor, MI
Computer Graphic Artist / Web Designer
June 1998 - January 1999
Designed the "look and feel" of more than 17 websites.
Clients include: Mopar, UAW-GM, Molly Maid, Deck the Walls, Little Caesars and Ashley Avery's Collectibles.

Impact Interactive & Madman Productions, Southfield, MI
CG Artist / Animator / Video Editor / Assistant Producer
February 1998 - June 1998
Created graphics and 3D animations for print, television, and web media.
Edited commercials, infomercials and documentaries utilizing the Media 100 editing system.
Associate producer for on-location video shoots.
 
Education
Bowling Green State University | Bachelor of Fine Arts | 1997
Specialization in Computer Art (3D Animation & Modeling)

Elgin Community College | 2002
GRD 222 Advanced Web Design Techniques (Flash, Actionscripting) - Completed - Grade: 4.0 A
GRD 235 Web Database (PHP, Flash, Actionscript, & MySQL) - Grade: 4.0 A
 
Software
Graphics:
Photoshop
Illustrator
Image Ready
Fireworks
Web Development:
Dreamweaver
Flash
HTML
CSS
Presentation & Communication:
Power Point
Visio
Microsoft Office
Acrobat
 
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