Gillian R. Fisher
gillian.fisher@gmail.com

Experience

Graphic & Web Designer/Photographer, GreenFish Adventure Sports, Andes, New York2006–2008

I redesigned the website, updating imagery and branding, and improving navigation and usability. Day–to–day activities include keeping products and pictures up to date, creating new homepage banners, and performing basic troubleshooting. I also photograph products which need photographing, design print ads, and brand merchandise (like t–shirts and stickers), and create marketing emails to send to our customers.

Teaching Assistant, Furniture Making, Colby College, Waterville, Maine2004

Immersive 1 month woodworking course in which students design and learn to build a piece of furniture, beginning with the milling of the raw wood. Power tools and hand tools are covered, an emphasis placed on traditional dovetail and mortise–and–tenon construction.

Camp Counselor/Woodworking Instructor, 4–H Camp Shankitunk, Delhi, New York2003

I lived in the cabin for 8–year–old girls, at a residential summer camp. As the woodworking instructor, I worked to come up with projects which would engage 8–year–old children who don’t know how to use a ruler, as well as 17–year–old farm kids with years of experience. Preferably, the projects were things which the kids could display at the county fair at the end of the summer.

Physical Plant Supply Shop & Sign Shop Clerk, Colby College, Waterville, Maine2001–2002

Mostly inventory at the Supply shop, at the sign shop I designed and produced campus signage: bathroom and handicap signs, faculty nameplates, museum exhibition labels, and such.

Architect’s Field Assistant, Robert Fisher Architect, Delhi, New YorkIntermittent

Education

SUNY at Albany, Albany, New York2004–2006

BA Fine Arts, Presidential Honor Society, Deans List

Colby College, Waterville, Maine2000–2004

BA Russian Language & Culture

Semester in St. Petersburg, Russia

Middlebury College Summer Language School, Middlebury, Vermont 2002

Skills

Additional skills not reflected in my transcripts include competencies with Photoshop, Illustrator, and Indesign, as well as HTML and CSS. I am beginning to familiarize myself with Wordpress, PHP, and Flash. I can sew and knit well, but cannot crochet. I enjoy solving problems, and generally pick up new skills quickly. I am very comfortable with Mac OS X (although I haven’t gotten Leopard yet—it should be on its way); I like to poke around in the terminal and developer tools, although I don’t really know what I’m doing back there. I am less comfortable with Windows, but probably as competent as the average Windows user, if not more so.