Experience

Centra Companies

• United States
• Real Estate
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Graphic Designer / Marketing

  • Jan 2010 - Present

  Design and create marketing materials used for selling new homes, such as home flyers, community plats, informational flyers, signs, and other promotional pieces. Maintain company website and oversee updates. Coordinate staging, photography and cleaning for finished homes. Create & maintain product books for each community. Responsible for Accounts Payable for invoices. Design and create marketing materials used for selling new homes, such as home flyers, community plats, informational flyers, signs, and other promotional pieces. Maintain company website and oversee updates. Coordinate staging, photography and cleaning for finished homes. Create & maintain product books for each community. Responsible for Accounts Payable for invoices.



Woodside Homes

• Minnesota, United States

• Graphic Designer / Marketing

  • Apr 2007 - Dec 2009

  Design and create marketing materials used in selling new homes, such as home flyers, community plats, and informational flyers. Maintain company website for the Minnesota division. Design and create marketing materials used in selling new homes, such as home flyers, community plats, and informational flyers. Maintain company website for the Minnesota division.



Fingerhut

• Minnetonka, MN

• Project Manager

  • Sep 1993 - Feb 2000

  Supervised the Creative IT Department, which was responsible for support of the catalog company's Creative Department's hardware and software, both Macintosh and PC. Provided network maintenance and support. Responsible for purchasing new hardware and software for the Creative PCs, Macintoshes, and network. Researched, tested and implemented CAMS, a Creative Asset Management System for catalog images. Oversaw the development of "Andy's Garage Sale", an innovative concept, especially for it's time, in e-commerce, where overstock items were sold online at a discount. Show less



Quark Software Inc.

• Software Development
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Quality Assurance Supervisor

  • Jan 1991 - Mar 1993

  Conducted compatibility testing between QuarkXPress and other software and hardware products.Developed standardized testing procedures for product functionality.Developed and performed tests to assure the quality of the company's desktop publishing software, QuarkXPress. Investigated and resolved client problems.Developed and maintained a knowledge base of issues/resolutions for the technical support team to access while on call.Managed a team of six Quality Assurance Specialists; supervised troubleshooting efforts of 46 Technical Support Representatives. Show less

• Technical Support

  • Jan 1990 - Jan 1991

  Resolved issues and answered questions from clients about QuarkXPress, the company's desktop publishing software. Tested new software.