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Ann McGettigan | information and visual design
Ann McGettigan Design(718) [email protected]
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Ann McGettigan Design Dowden Health Media | health and lifestyle
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Ann McGettigan Design Platts.com | web content editor
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Ann McGettigan Design Buckminster Fuller Institute | information architecture & web design
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Ann McGettigan Design Bill Gallo Cartoon Collection | information architecture & web design using Drupalhttp://timbaek.com/drupal2/
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Ann McGettigan Design Lesbian Herstory Archives | information architecture & web design for digital donations
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International Media Institute of India
123 Street Address | New Delhi, India |
Jody McPhillipsTitle Director here
123 Street Address | New Delhi, India |Phone | 995 848 433 | Skype: jodymcp
email | address goes here.eduIn partnership with International Center for Journalists &
City University of New York CUNY Graduate School
Ann McGettigan Design
International Media Institute of India
International Media Institute of India
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Ann McGettigan Design Daily News | spot news
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Ann McGettigan Design Daily News | spot news
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Ann McGettigan Design Daily News | spot news
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Ann McGettigan Design Daily News | feature and lifestyle
SUMMARY • Led the daily
design and production of award-winning print and inter-active graphics for major break-ing-news stories at the New York Daily News, a deadline-driven tabloid.
• Assembled, nurtured, trained and led a successful design team responsible for producing dozens of daily, weekly and monthly sections.
• Organized and maintained maps, logos, illustration and a template library for use by entire company on Share Point.
• Delivered design solutions within tight deadlines and budget restrictions.
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Resumé | information and visual design
Summary EMPLOYMENT
User Experience/SEO Marketing Assistant (freelance)CitizenStock.Com, rights managed stock photo agency, New York, NYMarch 2010-Present* Solicit and collate feedback about the product from users and turn the data
into actionable product feature enhancements and marketing research.* Help to develop best practices for web usability & analytics.
Art Director (contract)Dowden Health Media, a subsidiary of Lebhar-Friedman, Montvale, NJ. (September-December 2009) Dowden produces custom publications and websites on a contract basis for more than 150 healthcare organizations throughout the U.S. * Conceptualized, designed and responsible for the production of 6 quarterly-
magazines, customized for up to 30 editions.* Provide design elements for web page, html emails, and other site features.
Web Content Editor (contract)McGraw-Hill, Platts.com – New York, NY, London, England 2011; (May-August 2009)Platts is the leading publisher of energy information worldwide. It delivers real-time news and price information directly to clients’ desktops; publishes more than 60 newsletters and reports; and produces over 50 sector-specific confer-ences every year.* Part of a global web team responsible for the redesign, repositioning and re-
archiving of the website. Reported to the London office.* Edited and populated 2 years of html content into an xml-file format and
structure.* Recreated logos, photo illustrations, maps, charts, tables, video and podcasts
into the new design parameters.
Design ConsultantInternational Media Institute of India – New York, Delhi, India (March-May 2009)* Developed a corporate identity for the program: logo, business cards, statio-
nery and brochures.
Deputy Managing Editor/DesignDaily News – New York, NY(1998-2009)Provided leadership and direction to the 20-person art department at America’s largest tabloid newspaper, weekly regional newspapers, magazines and nydaily-news.com website.* Played a key role in designing and launching regional, weekly newspapers:
Brooklyn News, Queens News, Bronx Boro News; A Spanish-language weekly, Hora Hispana; a daily afternoon newspaper, Express.
* Served as a member of the installation and training team for the UNISYS/Hermes pagination system and upgrades.
* Spearheaded the conversion from Quark Express to Adobe InDesign and Adobe InCopy.
* Migrated the computer system from a Mac-based platform to a PC platform.* Gained specialized expertise working with print and web editors to prepare
data for charts and maps.* Trained the editorial department on photo research procedures, which included
using in-house photo archival and editing programs as well as outside vendors to streamline production and reduce costs.
* Championed efforts to develop templates for designers and simplified tem-plates for production journalists, which aided the staff in efficiently producing pages on daily deadlines.
* Collaborated with Design Director/News, Feature Art Director, and Sunday Art Director to assign artists to work in news, business, features, sports, and web departments for a 24/7 schedule.
* Recruited designers and illustrators for the publication.* Handled budget and financial management for the art department.* Collaborated on the development and annual maintenance of an Onsite and
Offsite Y2K Disaster Recovery System and temporary offices, which was suc-cessfully used on 9/11 and during the Black Out of 2003.
Art DirectorCrain Communications Inc., Crain’s New York Business – New York, NY(1987-1998)Carried full responsibility for art direction of Crain’s New York Business, the lead-ing publisher of New York City’s most vital financial news information. Created and managed design for subsidiary publications: Crain’s Small Business, The Insider, Health Pulse, Digital NY, and crainsnewyork.com.
EDUCATIONPratt Institute - New York, Masters of Information & Library Science: concentra-tion in information architecture, usability, metadata and archives. (Candidate 2012) Seton Hall University – South Orange, NJ, Bachelor of Arts, Communication Arts
TECHNICAL SKILLSAdobe Creative and Digital Publishing Suite: InDesign, InCopy, Illustrator, PhotoShop, Bridge, Dreamweaver, Acrobat, OmnigraffleHTML, CSS, Altova XML Spy, Oxygen XML Editor, Pidocco, Quark Xpress, UNISYS and CSI Pagination Systems. Open Source Software: Drupal, WordPress.Microsoft: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Access.File Maker Pro, Audacity.
