VICKI VANDEVENTER
510 531 4988 • vVandeventer@hotmail.com



s u m m a r y

• Highly motivated designer/art director with more than 20 years experience in online and print media development and production
• Organized problem-solver who thrives on meeting the challenges of multiple projects
• Consistent development of creative, award-winning design solutions with effective visual treatments that meet functional needs and market requirements
• Meticulous attention to detail, deadlines, and budgets
• Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills
• Extensive project management and client contact experience for a variety of products
• Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Quark XPress, Acrobat, Dreamweaver, HTML, PowerPoint, Word, Excel, and FileMaker Pro skills on both Macintosh and Windows platforms  

e x p e r i e n c e

FREELANCE DESIGNER / PROJECT MANAGER, 2004-present
vandesigner.com, Oakland, California

• Provided visual design services to Advisor Software, Inc. on major projects for Charles Schwab & Co. and Russell Investment Group. Redesigned the look and feel of ASI’s investment planning software to meet Schwab and Russell’s corporate branding requirements.
• Managed the design and production of Hampton-Brown’s new eAssessment web site while the Technology Director was on a 6-month sabbatical. Served as the liaison between HB’s Editorial Department and the outside developer in Philadelphia.

DESIGN PROJECT MANAGER, 2001-2004
Hampton-Brown, Carmel, California

• Managed the design of the Grade 4 textbook, teacher’s editions, and corresponding ancillaries for Avenues, Hampton-Brown’s new English as a Second Language (ESL) program for grades K-5. Art directed both studio and on-location photo shoots.
• Art directed the award-winning Alphachant Phonics series of Kindergarten books. Introduced members of the development team, located in Carmel, Chicago, New York, and Orlando, to an online review process that enabled the team to meet a very aggressive schedule.
• Coordinated the illustration programs for 10 Avenues Language and Literacy Pretest and Posttest books for grades 1-5. Selected artists, developed and monitored budgets and schedules, and art directed 30 freelance illustrators.
• Directed the user interface and graphics development for the Online Lesson Planner, Hampton-Brown’s first web-based curriculum planning tool for elementary, middle, and high school teachers and administrators.

ART DIRECTOR / GRAPHICS MANAGER, 1997-2001
Eloquent, Inc., San Mateo, California

• Directed the look and feel, UI design, and production of more than 20 interactive multimedia projects created in the Professional Services Department at a start-up rich media company. Clients included Autodesk, Citibank, Compaq, and Microsoft.
• Supervised the design and production of graphics for CD and internet-deployed multimedia presentations, CD-ROM packaging, and Powerpoint presentation slides for corporate clients, including Anderson Consulting, Cisco, Eastman Kodak, IBM, Oracle, and Proctor & Gamble.
  

• Directed the design, development, and production of user interfaces and graphics in CCC's server-deployed educational multimedia products.
• Managed the production of more than 20,000 digital images per product release.
• Supervised a permanent staff of 12 in addition to numerous freelancers, including interface designers, prototypers, usability testers, art directors, graphic designers, production artists, illustrators, animators, photographers, and photo researchers.

• Created and produced book interiors and covers, as well as logos, stationery programs, business forms, print advertisements, brochures, and other marketing material.
• Clients included Allyn and Bacon, The Benjamin/Cummings Publishing Company, Brooks/Cole Publishing Company, The California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office, HarperCollins, Marriott Hotels, McGraw-Hill, and Wadsworth Publishing Company.

• Designed interiors and covers for more than 84 college textbooks, primarily for criminal justice, psychology, chemistry, mathematics, and computer science courses. Wrote type specifications, created page layouts, cropped and sized photographs, prepared page dummies for complex projects, and art directed photo shoots.

a w a r d s

• 18th Annual New York Book Show, Bookbinders’ Guild of New York, 2004
• MITX Awards, Massachusetts Innovation & Technology Exchange, 2004
• Regional Design Annual, Print Magazine, 1997, 1993, 1985
• Excellence in Software/Codie Awards, Software Publishers Association, 1996
• International Interactive Multimedia Awards, The New York Festivals, 1996
• Northern California Technical Communication Competition, Silicon Valley Chapter of the Society for Technical Communication, 1996
• Invision Awards, NewMedia Magazine, 1995
• Awards Portfolio, Media and Methods Magazine, 1994
• Sam Seagull Awards, The Advertising Club of the Monterey Peninsula, 1991, 1987, 1984
• Self-Promotion Annual, How Magazine, 1991, 1989, 1988
• Design Annual, Communication Arts Magazine, 1988
  

e d u c a t i o n

• In progress: MA Degree in Advertising Design (Independent Study Degree Program)
  Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York

• Graphic design courses
  Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland

• BS Degree in Interior Design, English Minor
  San Jose State University, San Jose, California