About Me

I adore variety in my life. I'm a YA author, one-girl-band, web/graphic designer, video editor, and marketing coordinator. I live in Portland, Oregon with my ten guitars, supercool bf, and a fluffy cat named Maestro.

My Resume

• B.A. in Film and Digital Media from UC Santa Cruz
• Ten years of graphic/web design and marketing experience. Work experience includes:
• Marketing Manager/Consultant for Velocity Talent
• Graphic Artist for KVBC News in Las Vegas
• Teaching art theory, graphic design, and digital photography at an art college
• Marketing Coordinator and Designer for a real estate company in Portland
• Five years of freelance graphic/web design and marketing consultation
• Author of HARMONIC FEEDBACK (YALSA Best Fiction For Young Adults 2011, Cybils Finalist 2010 and CBC Best Children's Books 2011) and AMPLIFIED (Fall 2011) Both books are published by Henry Holt--an imprint of Macmillan Kids.
• Ten years of music production experience
• Technical skills include:
• HTML, XHTML, CSS, WordPress, in the process of learning PHP and MySQL
• Adobe Creative Suite (all versions)
• Final Cut Pro (all versions)
• Logic Pro (all versions)

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