Susie Sahim Resume

Web Illustrator, Web Designer
susiesahim@paperdemon.com

Education

San Jose State University (SJSU) (August 2001 to May 2007) – BFA Art, Illustration (Dean’s Scholar)

Silver Creek High School (SCHS), San Jose (August 1997 to May 2001) – Institute of Management and Technology
(Computer Science)

Central County Occupational Center, San Jose (August 1999 to May 2000) – Multimedia Design

Skills

Web Design, Web Illustration, Web Infographics, Leadership, Web Development, Freehand Drawing, Painting, Storyboarding, Branding, SEO (Search Engine Optimization).

XHTML, XML, CSS, PHP, JavaScript, DHTML, SQL, XSLT, jQuery, Photoshop, Flash, Illustrator, Corel Painter.

Experience

July 2008 to present - Web Designer
June 2007 to June 2008 - Associate Web Designer
November 2006 to May 2007 - Web Specialist Intern
May 2006 to August 2006 - Graphic Design Intern
Google, Inc.
Micheal Lopez
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
Mountain View, CA 94043

• Illustrate Google holiday logos
• Explore and define iconography and illustration style
• Create illustrations for promotional landing pages
• Project Management
• Design icons for use in Google applications and static pages
• Build tools/scripts to increase productivity of team tasks
• Document team processes and style guides

April 2005 to May 2006 - Webmaster
High Five Comics
Michael Sanchez
http://www.highfivecomics.com
http://www.captainradonline.com
Note: this website is no longer available.

• Developing customized web comic software with easy to use backend
• Building website templates and creating graphics under the art direction of Michael Sanchez

• Implemented my own Forum/BBS software with a custom comic book look

June 2003 to present – Administrator (Volunteer)
Shrunken Head Man Animation/Illustration Club (SJSU)
http://www.shrunkenheadman.com

• Demonstrated leadership skills as an officer of the club
• Collaborated with co-Webmaster for the club, Zachary Knoles for 2003 redesign
• Learned clean HTML design practices (separating formatting from documents)
• Learned CSS language
• Created searchable resource links database

September 2002 to present – Webmaster, Owner
PaperDemon.com Art and Writing Community
http://www.paperdemon.com

• Learn and practice knowledge of CSS, JavaScript, DHTML, PHP, and MySQL
• Generated traffic of 25,000 unique visitors per month and increasing
• Developed all the PHP software which runs the site, such as:
  • User logins
  • Artwork and Comics: image uploads, searchable, categorized, scripts generate thumbnails
  • Writing: html document uploads, searchable, categorized, multiple chapters
  • Critique/commenting system
  • Forum/BBS

References

Available upon request.