Elizabeth Cannon
F I N E & G R A P H I C A R T S
Graphic Designer/Technical Illustrator with expertise in the creation of programs, proposals, and documentation for various media/web teams, learning, change, and transformation campaigns. Skills include development and support maintenance of specialized projects for various marketing and advertising communications.
Experienced in corporate/military art production design, including CMYK print, RGB web, and eLearning projects. Successfully incorporates needs analysis, cross-functional project requirements, and training objectives for new and legacy systems. Mindful of timely objectives with standard methods to produce, maintain/update essential components for print, web, and presentation graphics.
Security Clearance: Inactive Secret
Professional Experience
bioMerieux 6/2015 - Present
Documentation Specialist: Aerotek/EASi Engineering contract assignment supporting IVD Manufacturing through change management processes with technical illustration and documentation as well as document control related materials. Intranet dashboard design for upper management to understand current statuses of all engineering projects. Adobe CC, LiveLink (Content Management), MS Office, SAP
The Gatesworth 9/2014 – 3/2020
Fine Arts Instructor: Teach senior residents the fundamental aspects of watercolor and acrylic painting.
St. Louis Health Equipment Lending Program 9/2008 – 12/2016
Non-Profit Media Coordinator: Coordinate media blitz for print and online news, community calendars, radio, and social networking websites.
Resources for Human Development: Blank Canvas Studios 11/2010 – 6/2015
Graphic Designer/Non-Profit Support Staff and Instructor: Direct support and art instruction for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities; this effort includes designing/managing website development and art direction for the studio. Adobe Creative Suites, WebEasy
Freelance/Contract Graphic and Instructional Design:
Nestle Purina
St. Louis Community College, CBIL
The Creative Group
St. Louis Post Dispatch / stltoday.com
SSE, Inc.
Accenture, US Air Force
Creatives On Call
PDS Technical Services: The Boeing Company
US Army Corps of Engineers: AREC
Elsevier Science - Electronic Production Editor
St. Louis Community College
Adjunct Professor: Graphic Design
Center for Business Industry and Labor: Instructional Art
Northrop Grumman - Senior Graphic Designer
Washington University School of Medicine - Graphic Designer
Education
Webster University
BA degree in Media Communications
St. Louis Community College at Meramec
Associates Degree in Graphic Communications
Art Direction
Strong graphic design, technical, and fine arts background includes production art for multimedia and
web-based training, interfaces incorporating photo stills, montages, 2D, and 3D computer animation, and video. Provide guidance for graphics style reflected in evolving corporate identity/branding, learning, print, and online/email marketing communications.
Technical/Instructional Design
Experienced in corporate business training, development, and graphic design, including various types of print, web, and eLearning projects. Curriculum development experience provides a foundation for teaching functional applications of CMYK production art processes. This experience enhances the development of learning processes in art fundamentals for children and special needs clients.
Coordination/Development
Project Management and Support
Prepare classified, academic, and medical research/content materials for print and internet publications. Primary project coordination, planning, art/text production skills require organization, delegation, delivery, and budgeting of multiple production efforts for web, eLearning, and print. Focus on developing, implementing, and documenting workflow standards and procedures for web development, design, communications, and project management.
Technical Skills
Adobe Creative Suites
Acrobat, After Effects. Captivate
Dreamweaver, Fireworks
Flash (Actionscript)
Illustrator
Image Ready
InDesign
Photoshop
Premiere
Microsoft Office
Access, Excel, Movie Maker, Power Point, Project, Publisher, Visio, Word
Camtasia
FinalCut Pro
QuarkXpress
Corel Draw!
HTML, SGML, XML
Oracle, SAP