Waila Skinner's Resume

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Waila Skinner
St. Louis, Missouri USA

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SUMMARY	Imagine working with a visual web designer that can effectively research, design and developed websites for clients in any industry. Effective team player known for creativity flexibility and sense of humor, former manager noted "Waila is one of the best designers I've worked with. She has an uncanny ability to interpret the clients unspoken wishes and come up with just the right solution" Creative problem solver turning business requirements into innovative designs Efficiently take designs from Photoshop to clickable prototypes to HTML/CSS, using web standards innovative coding techniques.

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SKILLS	Adobe Creative Suite: Dreamweaver, Flash, Photoshop Print: Quark, Adobe: Indesign, Illustrator, Acrobat Pro, Photography Coding: HTML/CSS, Javascript, Ajax, Actionscript, SharePoint Designer, Asp.Net, PHP

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WORK EXPERIENCE	Monsanto Visual Front-End Web Designer	Feb 2006 - Jan 2009 Saint Louis Mo
	Resolved the gap between the visual design team and the back-end implementation by creating hassle-free design CSS/HTML templates for easy use in SharePoint Designed clickable prototypes for tradeshow Kiosks, usability labs, and converted prototypes into to working HTML/CSS website based on results Designed and presented user standards for design to clients Increased productivity spearheading the use and development of xml based slideshow flash modules Enhanced Monsanto brand by the recommending the use of social networking sites to all Monsanto brands Successfully marketed the joint venture of Monsanto and the Weather Channel brands through creative direction of the banner advertising to receive the most response. At a critical time in the evolution of the company's intranet, I was able to improved the way that thousands of employees communicate online every day. Overhauled branded Monsanto websites to increase usability and give faster access to product specific data Created brand system to communicate complex scientific instructional data into easy to understand steps, reducing processing errors by 45% Improved usability by establishing modal window standards, by eliminating pop window problems Earned Brand Marketing Excellence award by Monsanto Corporation for the design and development of DetlaPine Cotton website

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EDUCATION	University Of Missouri Interdisciplinary Studies: Web Design in Multi-media design: Adverterising, Graphic Design, Marketing	1994 - 2000 Columbia

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INTERESTS	Mid-Century Furniture Design, Gemstone Specimens, Collage Artist, Homeopathy, Aroma Therapy, Color Therapy/Theory, Reiki Master, Matrix Energetics Practitioner, Photography, Tarot Reader

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REFERENCES	Available upon request

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