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jessica schloegel | woodbury, minnesota | 612.250.9797 | jessica.schloegel@hotmail.com
{designer statement} {communication} is one of the most essential components of
human life. As a designer it is crucial to use my knowledge and skill to promote communication visually. It will always be a goal and passion to create quality design, which in return will hopefully promote communication we so rely on. As a graduate from the University of Wisconsin-Stout and the PR/Communications Specialist for Aurora Community Services, I have been given the privilege of a college education and career. As a designer I would like to give back to my community through my work.
{table of contents} {resume} {current work} Aurora Community Services 2 REALiving social media 3 Aurora Community Services Advertisements 4 REALiving branding 5 Aurora You-niversity logo design and products 6 Champions website design
{previous work} The Chetek Alert Newspaper 8 2010 Chetek Visitors Guide Masterpiece Studios 9 Christmas card concepts Media Junction 10 Sak’s Bar and template lighting store websites
{college work} 11 Packaging design | Santa Rosa Honey Products 12 Senior show | Epek
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jessica schloegel | woodbury, minnesota | 612.250.9797 | jessica.schloegel@hotmail.com
{objective} To achieve a position in the Twin Cities area where I can use my education and experience to assist an organization in achieving their goals and strategies through graphic design.
{education} BFA Graphic Design 3.485 GPA 2004 - 2008 University Of Wisconsin-Stout 2003 - 2004 University Of Minnesota, Duluth
{skills} Strong background in Adobe Creative Suite 5 (Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign). Experienced in Dreamweaver CS5. Experience with Roland CutStudio, Pinnacle Cart and Constant Contact. Extensive background in fine arts, specializing in illustration and photography. Proficient in time management, organization, multi-tasking, prioritizing, customer service and efficiency. Experience in both Apple computers and PC computers.
{experience} PR/Communications Specialist | Aurora Community Services October 2011 – present, Menomonie, WI Responsible for designing all print material and advertisements within the company’s brand, along with promoting and marketing to expand business. * Learned and managed new programs, Roland CutStudio, Pinnacle Cart and Constant Contact. * Promoted and updated social media daily to reach out for possible clients and employees. * Managed print material for events along with planning and promotion. * Managed physical and online inventory for Down Syndrome Footprint, a company we were affiliated with and helped customers with questions about products and shipping. * Designed new website concepts for Champions of People. * Wrote content for our Employee Assistance newsletters. Graphic Designer | The Chetek Alert Newspaper July 2009 – October 2011 Responsibilities included designing advertisements and graphics for the newspaper and pagination, uploading the paper to the website and any print projects for clients. * Managed efficiently multiple print projects for clients from start to finish. * Took over running a label machine immediately once a co-worker quit. * Learned and maintained online newspaper website, along with online advertising. Freelance Graphic Designer | Masterpiece Studios February 2009 – July 2009 Responsibilities included designing concepts for cards, stationery and invitations for their children’s department. * Self motivation and meeting deadlines were key competencies required for this position. Web/Graphic Design Intern | Media Junction October 2008 – January 2009 Responsibilities included designing websites, print, logos and branding. * Updated, edited and maintained websites for clients. * Learned how to research marketing for clients’ needs for their websites. * Created specific tags and keywords for each website for clients.
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Freelance Graphic Designer May 2008 – present
{current work} Aurora Community Services REALiving social media {June-July 2013}
REALiving is a sister company Aurora Community Services that promotes being your best as an employee and employer through its Employee Assistance Program. To promote more traffic to REALiving’s Facebook and LinkedIn, I created these images to gain more interest and responses.
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{current work} Aurora Community Services Aurora Community Services Advertisements {June 2013}
At Aurora, Community Living Assistants are in high demand, and the target audience is high school and college students. My responsibility was to create advertisements that would appeal to this particular age group.
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{current work} Aurora Community Services REALiving branding {2012-2013}
There are many projects needed for the REALiving brand, so my responsibility was to design and update print material that reflected the brand. Currently this includes promotional bags for events, a magazine published quarterly, brochures and business cards.
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{current work} Aurora Community Services Aurora You-niversity logo design and products {2013}
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Aurora’s senior staff needed a logo for their “university.” My responsibility was to create a logo which has been used on a t-shirt and portfolio.
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{current work} Aurora Community Services Champions website design {April-July 2013}
Champions of People is part of REALiving’s Employee Assistance Program, which is expanding and needs its own website. My responsibility is to create the layout of the website and eventually make it live. More layouts on next page.
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{previous work} The Chetek Alert Newspaper 2010 Chetek Visitors Guide {Fall 2009}
This guide book is published every year by the newspaper since 2000. My responsibility was to design the cover, update and create advertisements and unify each page to the theme.
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{previous work} Masterpiece Studios Christmas card concepts {2009}
As a freelance graphic designer, my responsibility was to review design requests from Masterpiece Studios and design concepts.
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{previous work} Media Junction Sak’s Bar and template lighting store websites {2008}
These are two examples of websites I designed. Sak’s Bar is a restaurant website. The second example is a lighting showroom store website which allow companies to purchase a template and plug in their information.
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{college work} Packaging design | Santa Rosa Blossom Honey Products {2007}
This project we were assigned to choose a product, design the logo and create the packaging in limited time.
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{college work} Senior Show | epek {Spring 2008}
We were required to choose a problem we were interested in and extensively research that issue. Once I had my idea I created a comprehensive project to help solve the problem of clothing waste by covering these different areas of design: logo identity system, product and packaging, advertising design, advanced typographic applications, publication design, signage design and exhibit design.
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