Ann McGettigan | information and visual design Ann McGettigan Design (718) 447-2575 ann_mcgettigan@yahoo.com
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Dowden Health Media | health and lifestyle
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winter 2010
Connection a puBLication of soutHsiDe regionaL meDicaL center
Don’t be sidelined! Our sports medicine team delivers
Help for slowhealing wounds Women: Live life! SrMC can keep you dry
Brown-bag it for better health
www.srmconline.com
Platts.com | web content editor
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Buckminster Fuller Institute | information architecture & web design
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Bill Gallo Cartoon Collection | information architecture & web design using Drupal http://timbaek.com/drupal2/
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Lesbian Herstory Archives | information architecture & web design for digital donations
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International Media Institute of India | corporate identity
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123 Street Address | New Delhi, India |
International Media Institute of India
International Media Institute of India In partnership with International Center for Journalists & City University of New York CUNY Graduate School
International Media Institute of India Jody McPhillips Title Director here 123 Street Address | New Delhi, India | Phone | 995 848 433 | Skype: jodymcp email | address goes here.edu
Daily News | spot news
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Daily News | spot news
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Daily News | spot news
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Daily News | spot news
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Daily News | feature and lifestyle
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Resumé | information and visual design
Summary SUMMARY
• L ed the daily design and production of award-winning print and interactive graphics for major breaking-news stories at the New York Daily News, a deadline-driven tabloid. •A ssembled, nurtured, trained and led a successful design team responsible for producing dozens of daily, weekly and monthly sections. •O rganized and maintained maps, logos, illustration and a template library for use by entire company on Share Point. •D elivered design solutions within tight deadlines and budget restrictions.
Ann McGettigan Design (718) 447-2575 ann_mcgettigan@yahoo.com
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Brooklyn News, Queens News, Bronx Boro News; A Spanish-language weekly, Hora Hispana; a daily afternoon newspaper, Express. Served as a member of the installation and training team for the UNISYS/ Hermes pagination system and upgrades. Spearheaded the conversion from Quark Express to Adobe InDesign and Adobe InCopy. Migrated the computer system from a Mac-based platform to a PC platform. Gained specialized expertise working with print and web editors to prepare data for charts and maps. Trained the editorial department on photo research procedures, which included using in-house photo archival and editing programs as well as outside vendors to streamline production and reduce costs. Championed efforts to develop templates for designers and simplified templates for production journalists, which aided the staff in efficiently producing pages on daily deadlines. Collaborated with Design Director/News, Feature Art Director, and Sunday Art Director to assign artists to work in news, business, features, sports, and web departments for a 24/7 schedule. Recruited designers and illustrators for the publication. Handled budget and financial management for the art department. Collaborated on the development and annual maintenance of an Onsite and Offsite Y2K Disaster Recovery System and temporary offices, which was successfully used on 9/11 and during the Black Out of 2003.
User Experience/SEO Marketing Assistant (freelance) CitizenStock.Com, rights managed stock photo agency, New York, NY March 2010-Present * Solicit and collate feedback about the product from users and turn the data into actionable product feature enhancements and marketing research. * Help to develop best practices for web usability & analytics.
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Art Director (contract) Dowden Health Media, a subsidiary of Lebhar-Friedman, Montvale, NJ. (September-December 2009) Dowden produces custom publications and websites on a contract basis for more than 150 healthcare organizations throughout the U.S. * Conceptualized, designed and responsible for the production of 6 quarterlymagazines, customized for up to 30 editions. * Provide design elements for web page, html emails, and other site features.
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Web Content Editor (contract) McGraw-Hill, Platts.com – New York, NY, London, England 2011; (May-August 2009) Platts is the leading publisher of energy information worldwide. It delivers realtime news and price information directly to clients’ desktops; publishes more than 60 newsletters and reports; and produces over 50 sector-specific conferences every year. * Part of a global web team responsible for the redesign, repositioning and rearchiving of the website. Reported to the London office. * Edited and populated 2 years of html content into an xml-file format and structure. * Recreated logos, photo illustrations, maps, charts, tables, video and podcasts into the new design parameters.
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Design Consultant International Media Institute of India – New York, Delhi, India (March-May 2009) * Developed a corporate identity for the program: logo, business cards, stationery and brochures.
EDUCATION Pratt Institute - New York, Masters of Information & Library Science: concentration in information architecture, usability, metadata and archives. (Candidate 2012) Seton Hall University – South Orange, NJ, Bachelor of Arts, Communication Arts
Deputy Managing Editor/Design Daily News – New York, NY (1998-2009) Provided leadership and direction to the 20-person art department at America’s largest tabloid newspaper, weekly regional newspapers, magazines and nydailynews.com website. * Played a key role in designing and launching regional, weekly newspapers:
TECHNICAL SKILLS Adobe Creative and Digital Publishing Suite: InDesign, InCopy, Illustrator, PhotoShop, Bridge, Dreamweaver, Acrobat, Omnigraffle HTML, CSS, Altova XML Spy, Oxygen XML Editor, Pidocco, Quark Xpress, UNISYS and CSI Pagination Systems. Open Source Software: Drupal, WordPress. Microsoft: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Access. File Maker Pro, Audacity.
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Art Director Crain Communications Inc., Crain’s New York Business – New York, NY (1987-1998) Carried full responsibility for art direction of Crain’s New York Business, the leading publisher of New York City’s most vital financial news information. Created and managed design for subsidiary publications: Crain’s Small Business, The Insider, Health Pulse, Digital NY, and crainsnewyork.com.