Professional Work Study, internships & Contract experience I had during and/or post college
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I worked part time at MATC's JOBshop as an Administrative Assistant while working towards my Associates degree at MATC, where I provided administrative support including document production, promoting employment services and assisted teaching students with updating/critiquing resumes and showed them how to use electronic resources as needed. I also was in charge of posting and monitoring relevant content brand awareness.
While I was still attending online classes at Milwaukee Area Technical College, I worked at United Way as a "Social Media Strategist Intern", which was part of the work study program. My job was research, I manage, and create new relevant social media content as well as designing images/exposes and flyers and keeping the campaign website updated as needed for United Way and Milwaukee County's annual
"Workplace Combined Giving Campaign".
- I worked at Milwaukee County Department of Human Services as a"Budgeted Web Designer Intern". It was a 6 month internship, where I reviewed and evaluated the existing Human Resources portion of County website Design and then updated it to make it more user friendly.
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First Contract position
- I worked at Redefined Realty as a "Marketing Graphic Designer". This job gave me a lot of great experience with marketing and graphic design as well as amazing insight for the Real estate industry. My job was to design print materials including flyers, brochures, and postcards for the real estate agents as needed, create and edit artwork for magazine publications. I was also was in charge of assisting the web designer by helping to create/design web materials as needed and managing all Social Media accounts, including creating content and maintaining social media posting schedule calendar.
Second Contract position:
- I worked at Kohl's Corporation as a contracted "Graphic Design Consultant". I was responsible for editing/adjusting the current floor plan. I printed, organized and sorted 1000+ clearance floor plans and matched similar plans to specific numbers or marked as unique. Once that was complete I then used Adobe Illustrator to digitally update the existing floor plans that were previously marked up by the Merchandise Presentation Department planners and then submitted all floor plans in for review and made any necessary updates and printed final copies of each floor plan.
