CHRISTIE
SHINN
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WORK
EXPERIENCE
Studio Work
April 2007-August 2008 Graphic/Document Designer Goleta, California
MPOGD/lvlupcommunications
Used Photoshop, Illustrator, Powerpoint, Flash, and Word in order
to create Press/Media kits and newsletters for the company and individual
clients. I also designed logos and other graphics for MPOGD and Levelup
as well as clients referred to me through that company. I had to keep
in mind the vision of the company in terms of marketing to a specific
group or an overall group while designing the graphic and/or overall
look of the document. I would often have to schedule myself in terms
of strict deadlines and restrictions to even last-minute campaigns
for both web and print.
Flash Work.
2007 MPOGD.com Media Kit.
2007 MPOGD.com Ad Package.
2007 MPOGD.com Price Card.
Freelance
GFS Clothing DBA Sidewayz Style
June 2009 – July 2009
Apparel and logo design for a fashion line.
Sidewayz Style Logo.
Delikate Rayne
April 2009 – August 2009
Apparel design for a fashion line.
Benson Hopp
June 2009
Resdesign of a Flash header for portfolio film website.
Fashart Productions
June 2009 – July 2009
Graphic design and editing for Fashart productions products: T-shirts, comics, mugs, etc.
Forever A Movement/SON
January 2009-March 2009
Designed an album cover for a sale of a CD for hip-hop artist named Son.
Son - Kingdom Album Cover.
Website Design Tutoring
GlosterBiomedical.com
November 2008-February 2009
Tutored client in Dreamweaver, Photoshop, HTML and CSS basics so that they could be self-sufficient in building and maintaining their website.
List Caddy
October 2008-Present
I designed a logo aimed at contemporary women in their 30's for their reusable shopping bag and for their special List Caddies: Breast Cancer Ribbon and American Flag using both Photoshop and Illustrator. In addition, I also designed web banners and splash pages for website. I cleaned up product photos to make them more web and print-worthy.
Reusable bag logo.
Banner used in Orange County Trade Show 2008.
Breast Cancer Ribbon list caddy. American Flag List caddy.
Tote Packaging 2008
Clip Strip Packaging 2008
List Caddy Breast Cancer web ad.
List Caddy American Flag web ad.
List Caddy updated splashpage.
List Caddy Banner Ad.
"Christie's work for us ranges from creating a banner for use in Trade Shows to designing art for our branded products. She also has been instrumental in improving and editing designs for our website images. We like her work, and feel she understands our objectives
... We look forward to working with her more in the future, and recommend her highly."
Chris Pericles
Principal of CM Concepts, LLC
One Lil’ Snap
September 2008
I did a logo design, along with cleanup of photographed products for an online baby accessory store.
Logo design.
Olive Jane
August 2008-August 2009
Photoshop for color cards, line sheets, and other advertising and promotional media, to embroidery and logo designs, as well as web graphics. I also designed a dual-purpose invite for both web and print and a promo pic for Alison Bane's (Owner and Head Designer) Facebook.
Olive Jane Clothing 'n' Cupcakes Boutique Party Invite (e-mail and print announcement).
Olive Jane Clothing 'n' Cupcakes Boutique PROMO pic.
Olive Jane Clothing 'n' Cupcakes Boutique Party Facebook Screenshot.
Olive Jane Retro Resort 2008 Line Sheet.
Olive Jane Garden Scrolls 2009 Shirt Designs.
Olive Jane Retro Resort 2008 Line Sheet.
Olive Jane Retro Resort 2008 Color Card.
Olive Jane Summer Inventory Sale Brochure.
Head to Toe Expo 2008 Promotional Graphic #1
Head to Toe Expo 2008 Promotional Graphic #2
Head to Toe Expo 2008 Promotional Graphic #3
Head to Toe Expo 2008 Promotional Graphic #4
IMS Barter.com
June 2008 - August 2008
Clickable Flash banner ads for their Forbes.com campaign. I used Photoshop and Illustrator to create most of the graphics or manipulate client-provided ones.
Flash work.
Ordinary Zen
March 2004 - April 2004
A completely Flash-oriented website done for a personal growth website as a student project. (Website is defunct, cached version kept locally.)
General Experience
January 2004-February 2009 |
District Office Coordinator |
Goleta, California |
Staples, Inc.
I interacted with varying levels of both associate to Divisional level as a liaison in order to coordinate meetings, arrange accommodations for large groups of people, budget proposals, phone conferences, and submit miscellaneous reports and communications via email to MAP communications through the Staples proprietary web applications. This was for stores, corporate, and even customers. I used Word and Excel in order to make presentable documents in a relatively short span of time.
It got me more familiar with Staples’ infrastructure overall.
I had to transmit information out clearly and concisely to the District and even to the region in terms of reports or corporate policies. In times of computer issues with stores, I had to find the best way for them to fix their issues by either submitting e-tickets to making calls along the right avenues. I often had to fall back on the non-email forms of communication, because I could not simply use them at the time.For floor sales, I had to be coached by my supervisors as well as store managers in order to be able to approach a customer, as well as learning and keeping up to date on the current sales techniques. I also had to use a lot of self-discipline and I had to be open to constructive criticism to improve my sales techniques.
EDUCATION
2004-2007 Digital Entertainment and Game Design
ITT Technical Institute-Oxnard
-Graduated valedictorian - GPA 3.75
- Bachelor of Science
- This program was to give us a general overview of game development;
from programming, art assets, to actual production and hiring. It
was tailored to each individual student’s needs. I went the
way of art assets/production and I was taught how to make a portfolio.
I was taught to use 3DsMax and Adobe After Effects as well as honing
Photoshop and Illustrator skills with refinement to design.
1994-2003
Art Studio and Film Studies
University of California, Santa Barbara
- Bachelor of Arts in each major.
- Art Studio was a mixed disciplinary program in which I was taught
classical art on one spectrum (drawing live models, still lives, and
environments), but I was also taught multimedia of Photoshop, Illustrator,
Flash, Director, and other forms of multimedia applications that were
just coming out at about that time for both web and general graphic
design/illustration.
- In Film Studies, I examined the concept and composition of films
of different genres and studied varying auteurs in order to see how
the mind translates onto the screen and the production values and
processes that go along with it. I also delved into film theory and
philosophy to see what motivated certain creative attributes to making
films that were acclaimed as well as successful.
-In both majors I was taught design elements and composition.
HOBBIES
I like playing video games (mostly RPGs, puzzle games, and MMORPGs), comics, cooking,
drawing, writing, reading, accessing a wide array of art and music,
snapping strange photos, researching weaponry and martial arts, action
movies and other genres of movies with odd stories, going to ranges, and traveling. However, I'm game for just about anything and am willing to give things at least one try.
