Mary Lou Schar

•  Project Redwood – Non-profit – Initial site concept and development, continuing consultation
•  The New IEM – Manufacturing Company - Initial site concept, corporate branding, internal and marketing  collateral development - on-going consultation
•  Jitterbug! – Software Company - Initial site design concept and development
•  Greyhound Pets of America-Arizona – Non-profit - Initial site concept and development
•  Bountiful Harvest – Non-profit – site & marketing collateral concept through completion

•  Responsible for consistent corporate branding and development and execution of unique eye-catching ads,  flyers, business cards, newsletters and brochures.
•  Manage residential real estate office including bookkeeping, agent support and training.

•  Directed the redesign a 750 page website, including design review, graphic creation, determination of  behaviors, methods of implementation, coding, and coordination of tasks with additional team members, and  launch in a five week time frame.
•  Provided oversight of corporate website and intranet, including prototyping; coordinated efforts of the web  team to produce an integrated look and feel based on user-oriented design principles and focus group  feedback.
•  Developed unified corporate identity including of style sheets, consistent use of color, font and graphics  throughout the corporate environment: website, PDF, data sheets, corporate announcements and marketing  collateral, etc.

•  Created, developed, and determined both the architect and graphic design for the Enterprise Business Unit  beta web site, continued enhancements based on user feedback, shortening feedback cycle by 5 to 10%.
•  Setup and maintained the intranet site as a central location for tracking all Beta projects issues.
•  Liaised with marketing and engineering departments to disseminate customer feedback and determine content  of marketing collateral.

•  Managed lab inventory and system upgrades, both hardware and software, on all equipment.
•  Provided technical support on ProofPositive, Splash and Calibrator.
•  Expedited and managed critical account orders, customer satisfaction escalations increasing customer  satisfaction rating by 25%.
•  Trained and educated staff and management and wrote white papers for the ProofPositive printer.

•  Prepared writing/layout/design of camera-ready artwork for newsletters, brochures, forms, advertisements, business cards and catalogs, bringing all projects to completion ahead of schedule.
•  Consulted and coordinated various projects, interfacing with both customer and print shops to achieve desired results.

Hardware: Mac/Apple, Windows NT, 2000 and XP, dye-sublimation printers, laser printers, offset printers, darkroom, plate making, and process camera.

Software: StoryServer, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Freehand, Flash, FrameMaker, Acrobat, Access, PowerPoint, Word, and Excel.

Languages: HTML, XHTML, CSS, and some JavaScript.