Résumé

Thea Pilarczyk

p: 215.806.8925
e: thearetical (at) gmail.com
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Objective(s)

To make ideas and concepts beautiful. To create compelling stories for entertainment, education, or business. To discover new ways of enhancing human/computer interaction, and to become an integral part of a collaborative team that helps enhance the experiences of world-wide audiences.

Experience

Korn/Ferry Leadership & Talent Consulting (Formerly Lore International Institute)
Multimedia Instructional Designer, June 2006–April 2011

Responsibilities:

  • Create videos, presentations, animations, podcasts, and visual designs to enhance the offerings of Enterprise Learning
  • Work closely with Enterprise Learning to conceive, develop, produce and deliver technology-enabled learning for clients; including e-learning, mobile learning, online classroom training, and live computer simulations
  • Support the Marketing Team in their efforts to build and promote websites and e-mail blasts for internal and client communications; create, edit, and deliver virtual proposal solutions; and provide support to the graphics team when necessary
  • Work collaboratively with IT to enhance and support the digital communications infrastructure
  • Advise colleagues on Web 2.0 technologies and trends; create write-ups on these technologies and deliver them via company blog or presentation (i.e. Twitter, Second Life, etc.)
  • Build, maintain, and encourage the use of communication tools and Web 2.0 technologies internally (wikis, blogs, discussion boards, Yammer, etc.)

Mineralistic.com
Designer/Web Marketer, 2004-2006

Responsibilities:

  • Maintain a ProStores e-commerce solution for the online store, and incorporate the store’s logo into a full graphic design for the website and newsletter
  • Handle e-mail marketing and promotion via Constant Contact
  • Take promotional photographs of merchandise; write descriptive copy of sale items for website

National A-1 Advertising
Graphic Artist/Webmaster, VOD.com, 2003-2004

Responsibilities:

  • Graphic and web design
  • Sales and contract management for the video on demand website VOD.com
  • Customer service
  • Newsletter construction, copy-writing, and management

Education

The University of the Arts
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Multimedia 1999-2003

Graduated Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Fine Arts and a GPA of 3.8. The program focused on an iterative, project-based curriculum highlighting collaboration, conceptual problem-solving, interface design, human-computer interaction, social media, and more.

Software Skills

  • Microsoft Office:
    • Word
    • Excel
    • Outlook
    • Entourage
    • PowerPoint
  • Adobe Creative Suite:
    • Photoshop
    • Illustrator
    • InDesign
    • ImageReady
    • After Affects
    • Acrobat Professional
    • Flash
    • Flash Video Encoder
    • Dreamweaver
  • Scripting Languages:
    • HTML
    • XHTML
    • CSS
    • JavaScript
    • PHP
  • Blog/site design applications:
    • WordPress (open source blogging application)
    • DotNetNuke (content management system)
  • Additional media creation and editing tools:
    • Final Cut Pro/Express HD
    • Keynote (presentation software)
    • GarageBand (audio editing and recording software)
    • Audacity (audio editing software)
    • Sorenson Squeeze (video compression tool)
    • Autodesk Maya (3D modeling and animation software)
    • Poser (3D scene construction and animation software)
  • Communication tools:
    • WebEx (webinar broadcasting and training tool)
    • Twitter
    • Yammer
    • Google Apps
  • Virtual worlds and social networking applications:
    • Second Life
    • Facebook
    • LinkedIn
    • Tumblr
  • Web marketing platforms:
    • Constant Contact (e-mail marketing solution)
    • ProStores (e-commerce solution)
    • Search Engine Optimization
    • Google Adwords
    • Google Analytics

References available upon request.

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