education 2005-2010
BFA, BID Industrial Design ‘10 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
2007
Principles of Accounting at Brown University, Providence, RI
2008
Product Design at Elisava Escola Superior de Disseny, Barcelona, Spain
Marialejandra Garcia Corretjer Industrial Designer 903 Providence Place, apt 231, Providence, RI, 02903
787 464 6695
www. alegarciacorretjer.com mgarcia@g.risd.edu
skills Computer Skills: Adobe Suit: Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Flash CS3, basic HTML, CSS, basic programming, Action Script. SolidWorks, VellumGraphite, IMovie, CMS(Drupal, Wordpress) Microsoft Word, Excell, Power Point, Outlook, GarageBand, Programming Osculator, hacked key boards, some Arduino. Strong design process skills: Design Research (gathering qualitative, quantitative, development and analysis), to concept design,drawing, rendering, strategy, and system thinking. Mechanical Drawing, model making with wood, metals,foam, and other materials. Other Skills: Marketing, advertising experience, web and print. Profecient ingraphic design, basic web design, layout and typography. Photography (digital & 35mm b/w). Basic animation, video making/editing.Administrative, organizational, & leadership skills. Management skills, working with clients, multidisciplinary teams, internal projects, event planning, and running workshops with clients / designers for research and project development. Jewelry metalsmithing, painting, and sculpture. Strong writting and verbal presentation skills (speaking in public). Comprehensive in Portuguese and Catalan.
work experience July 2010 - Present
Gallery assistant manager, designer, in charge of marketing & advertising. Assist in sales, book-keeping, and overseeing events and curatorial work, at Royal Gallery, Providence, RI
June-August 2009
3 month internship with A Piece of Pie-innovation consultancy, helping services, business development, and product concepts as a junior designer and researcher. Barcelona, Spain
June - December 2008
2007-2010 June-August 2006
6 month industrial design internship at DS&B-Design Studio and Barcelona, (product design, rendering, research, modeling), Barcelona, Spain. Event coordinator at RISD and Providence artistic community with the Office of Multicultural Affairs at RISD Paid 3 month internship as Assistant for the Director of Education, Doreen Colon and exhibition coordinator for summer courses at MAPR (Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico) San Juan, PR.
2006-2009
Docent, tour guide, and assistant coordinator for a special exhibition at the RISD Museum, Providence, RI
2004-2006
Art teacher for Noa Art Studio in Puerto Rico and MAPR, San Juan, PR
2002-2005
Volunteer work at SER de Puerto Rico, helping children with physical and mental disabilities.