Genevieve Wilson

1201 Miller Rd. Ann arbor, MI 48103 | [email protected] | (734)997-9591

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1999-Present                                    Kidpower Vaudeville Corp. Ann Arbor, MI

Owner/Presenter

• Established business specializing in school presentations
• Developed program content and presented to over 50.000 children
• Wrote and designed related educational materials purchased by client schools

 

1997-1999                             La Fantaisie Co.                         Taipei, Taiwan

Designer

• Designed toys and packaging using Adobe Suite. Self-taught.
• Flatbed/negative scanning, Freehand, Illustrator, Photoshop, vector graphics, color/mode adjustment and print-ready output. Self-taught.

 

1996-1997                             Centre Americain                              Alexandria, Egypt

Computer Consultant/ESL Teacher

• Provided computer skills workshops and technical support
• Designed advanced ESL course curriculum
• Taught ESL to adults at all levels of ability

 

1988-1996                             SideCar Art                                       Ohio, Michigan

Artist/Designer

• Ran freelance airbrush/sign painting company (all surface types)
• Worked as airbrush contractor doing custom clothing detailing
• Performed interior decoration and design on consultant basis

 

EDUCATION

2000                                       Washtenaw Community College            Ann Arbor, MI

• Design for the Internet: using Dreamweaver 3 and raw HTML to design tables, rollovers, site architecture and management, image slicing, image maps, vector graphics, cyberlaw
• Digital Imaging: Photoshop 5.5: photo repair and adjustment; layered collages, seamless collages, advertisements, promotional material, negative/slide/flatbed scanning, dye sublimation printing, Zip to CD storage, Zip to Slide output

 

1993-1996                             Ohio State University                   Columbus, OH

• M.A. Arabic Linguistics
• Taught undergraduate writing course in Arab culture (2 years)

 

1987-1991                             University of Michigan                    Ann Arbor, MI

• B.A. Modern Languages: Spanish, German,  Arabic, Greek

 

SKILLS & SOFTWARE

• Contributing writer for Arab World Studies Notebook, Middle East Policy Council
• Adobe (Photoshop, Illustrator, Streamline, PageMaker), Freehand, Dreamweaver, Netscape Composer, Excel, Cute/Fetch/WS FTP, HTML, Javascript, Powerpoint, etc.
• Photography (digital & traditional), Airbrush,
• Proficiency in Arabic, German, Spanish, French.   Some Chinese, Russian, Hebrew, Greek.