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Joyce Bettencourt
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136 Rogers Street Dartmouth, MA 02748
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| joystudios@yahoo.com Cell: 508.415.5210 Other: www.studioh2o.com/new |
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| | To work within the field of Graphic Design (Web and/or Print), Illustration(traditional & computer), Animation(Flash), character or concept generation or other creative projects.
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| | | University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, Dartmouth, MA |
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Bachelor of Arts -
Visual Design/Illustration, June 1999 |
Classes in illustration, graphic design, electronic imaging, drawing, painting and photography. Worked with the programs: Quark, PhotoShop, PageMaker, Illustrator, Infini D, Director and HTML. Completed course on internet/HTML programming and received Webmaster certificate.
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| | | Bristol Community College, Fall River , MA |
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Other -
Multimedia/electronic design, August 2000 |
Classes in Multimedia/electronic design, Business creativity and photography. Worked with the programs: PageMaker, Quark, PhotoShop, Freehand, Fireworks, Flash and Director.
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| · | Movable Type (blog software)
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| · | Adobe Imageready (animated GIFs)
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| | | NEBCO - MemberNetUSA, Warwick, RI |
October 2000 - Present |
| Graphic Designer - Print & Web |
Responsible for the design and overall look and feel of corporate generated websites and printed media. Design templates and user interface for the company's portal website along with client sites focusing on insurance related products and services. Work with marketing team to design printed materials such as ads, brochures, direct mail & trade show displays. Work closely with Business and Insurance Product Managers, as well as Information Systems group in creating designs that are visually effective, consistent with corporate branding and highly usable to our clients.
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| | | Global Kids, Inc., NYC, NY |
March 2006 - Present |
| Blog Designer & Administrator |
Remote contracter for the educational non-profit Global Kids, Inc. in charge of set up, design, administration & editorial of their Movable Type blog site www.holymeatballs.org.
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| | | Second Life, San Francisco, CA |
March 2005 - Present |
| Designer - Texture Artist - Content Creator |
Freelance content creator within the massively-multiplayer virtual world of secondlife.com, Project management, texture creation and building for clients such as Global Kids, Inc., Seattle's Bumbershoot art festival, HouseofRFyre.com and charity work for the Katrina Relief project and the American Cancer Society's Relay for Life.
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| | | studio H2o, Dartmouth, MA |
March 2001 - Present |
Freelance web/graphic design.
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| · | Westport River Gardeners
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| | | Bristol Community College , Fall River, MA |
January 1998 - October 2000 |
| Media Technical Assistant |
Design informational tags, forms, handouts, procedural and tutorial manuals. Provide technical support to faculty, staff and students regarding PC and Mac software, hardware. Install computer software and maintain workstations. Also responsible for Audio, Video and Media collections.
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| | | The Magic Pallette, New Bedford, MA |
July 2000 - August 2002 |
Taught traditional techniques in art, such as drawing, painting, color theory, collage, printmaking & sculpture to children ages 6-13.
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| | | Museum of Science, Boston , Boston, MA |
June 2000 - August 2000 |
Developed and taught the course, Nature's Sketchbook which integrated Science and Art. Taught various techniques and performed experiments. Age group of students, 10-13. Some curricula online at http://www.geocities.com/joystudios
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| | | University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth , Dartmouth, MA |
September 1996 - March 1998 |
Responsible for the design and production of all forms of printed advertising, i.e. posters, flyers, banners, calendar of events and other promotional materials, for on campus groups and organizations. Also created Internet/WWW sites incorporating design and HTML. Worked with computer software as well as hand rendering to accomplish assignments.
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| | | University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth , Dartmouth, MA |
September 1996 - January 1998 |
| Computer Help Desk/Lab Tech |
Responsible for the maintenance of computers, assisting students and faculty in use of IBM and MAC computers. Knowledge of software including Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, PhotoShop, PageMaker, Quark.
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| | | Aerials Only , Buzzards Bay, MA |
August 1996 - March 1997 |
| Gallery Assistant/Graphics Tech |
Responsible for scanning in photographic images, color corrections and preparing digital images for print and web publishing. Also worked within gallery handling customers, matting photographs and cataloguing prints. (www.aerialsonly.com)
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| | | Ann & Hope , Dartmouth, MA |
June 1989 - August 1996 |
| Electronics Salesperson/Cashier |
Responsible for sales, handling transactions, returns, assisting customers and for product knowledge of electronics, computers, cameras and video equipment.
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| | | · | Convergence Art Festival 2002, Providence, RI
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Printing Industries of Rhode Island award for the chalk pastel painting entitled "Apollo". http://www.caparts.org
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| · | Convergence Art Festival 2001, Providence, RI
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Printing Industries of Rhode Island award for the chalk pastel painting entitled "Victory and Liberty".
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| · | Convergence Art Festival 2000, Providence, RI
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People's Choice award for the chalk pastel painting entitled "Icarus".
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| · | Bierstadt Society, New Bedford, MA
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First Place Award, Graphic category
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