grfxDesignShop (1999 to present)
Providing print, web, and multimedia graphics design and production for small businesses.
- Website design, production, and maintenance
- Creating corporate identities and office templates
- Creating promotional and incentive gifts for businesses
- Producing advertising and display materials
- Designing and producing technical reports
- Assessing and fulfilling the needs of clients
- Providing cost estimates and managing job budgets
- Accounting and book-keeping
4G Consulting, LLC (2002 to present)
Office Manager, Network Administrator, Graphics Department Lead.
- Overseeing all graphics-related needs for print and web
- Designing and producing all marketing materials for print and web
- Transforming technical maps and drawings into illustrations
- Optimizing 35mm and digital photographs for use in technical reports
- Laying out and printing all technical reports
- Overseeing submission of proposals in response to Requests for Quotes (RFQs) and Proposals (RFPs), including editing, printing, and laying out text and graphics
- Negotiating and administering awarded contracts
- Office management
- Network administration and maintenance
Selected Clients
Annie Fink Designs
- Designed logo and nameplate, static and animated
- Designed and produced their first website
- Assisted in production of the second website with shopping cart
- Designed marketing and promotional materials
Kaja’s Happy Tails Pet Services
- Designed logo and nameplate, static and animated
- Designed, produced, and continue to maintain the company website
- Designed marketing and promotional materials
- Created business document templates for use in Microsoft Office
Twin Cities Division of the National Model Railroad Association
- Assistant Editor for the organization’s quarterly newsletter, The Crossing Gate
- Re-designed all graphic elements and created new template in QuarkXpress
- Managed print production
Qwest Business Partners Program
- Designed invitations for corporate events
- Designed holiday greeting cards for internal use
Vail Dunlap & Associates
- Designed marketing materials
- Adapted corporate logos for use on promotional and incentive gifts
Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies
- Designed visual display materials and handouts for 2002 Archaeology Day event
- Logo and stationary design for the Red Wing Publication Project
engineering-environmental Management, Inc (e2M)
- Transformed technical maps and drawings into illustrations
- Laid out and produced printed technical reports
- Designed marketing materials for print
- Designed a Flash-based sales presentation
Previous Related Experience
Ballet of the Dolls, Minneapolis, MN (1988 to 1993)
Founding member and performer
- Involved in all aspects of performance, stage production, and marketing for five seasons
Sight and Sound Productions, Inc., Minneapolis, MN (1990 to 1992)
Staff Production Coordinator
- Hired and managed contractors for commercial and industrial TV/Video productions
- Rented and maintained equipment for television and video productions
Independent Contractor in Twin Cities, MN, area (1985 to 1990)
Commercial production of video, film, and photography
- Production Coordinator, Production Manager, Production Assistant
- Set construction, demolition, and styling
- Prop, food, makeup, and wardrobe styling
- Location scouting
Children’s Theatre Company and School, Minneapolis, MN (1983 to 1985)
Staff Stage Manager
- Coordinated set, prop, and costume production departments
- Supervised union and non-union stage crews
- Managed large casts during pre-production and performance schedules
Education
University of California, Riverside — BA in Dance (1977)
Platt College, San Diego, CA — AA in Multimedia Graphic Design (2000)
Joanne Moyer Rust | St Paul, MN | 651.298.0926