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Beth Budwig's Resume
Designer at VoodooVox
September 2005 – present
I work with the executive team and tech, serving as user advocate, visual designer, and hand-coder of HTML & CSS; I design all our various sites, web apps, flash widgets, demos, and marketing efforts. I worked with the company in 2001, when it was producing listener line tools for radio stations. Now that's just one of our products, all of which use our technology to allow our corporate customers to monetize their phonelines.
- Solely responsible for the look, usability, media assets, and HTML coding of all our products
- Partially responsible for product development, copywriting, and marketing
- Designed useable interfaces for both business and consumer audiences
- Worked with executives to quickly create a new corporate site that met their needs
- Developed, designed, and implemented MyVox, an audio widget site that targets MySpace users; I created both the site and the flash widgets
- Collaborated with the tech team to create "In Call Advertising", a web application that allows customers to create and monitor advertisements for phonelines.
Designer at Lotus Interworks
June 2005 – September 2005
Lotus Interworks is the parent company of Alacre, where I'd been working for the prior five months; in my time at Lotus/Alacre, I started as a game tester and eventually became the de facto art director, working directly with the CEO to lead a 4-person art team.
- Designed "mobile channels": robust, well-branded entertainment sites for WAP browsers; created graphics and XHTML
- Designed user interface schematics and graphics for PC telecommunications software
- Created art assets for websites, PC software UI, and wireless games
- Wrote HTML, CSS, and JavaScript for company websites
- Created "look and feel" comps for websites and games
- Collaborated with design team to create game design documents for wireless games
- Responsible for design work for multiple companies under the Lotus business umbrella (Ardit, Tegora, Alacre)
- Worked with high-profile companies such as Disney, ABC, and Lion's Gate Films
Quality Assurance Lead at Alacre
February 2005 – June 2005
Alacre ports mobile games to a variety of cell phones; the company does both in-house development and testing of many builds of the same game, specializing in porting to older phone models.
- Interfaced with producers, developers, and testers in the development of cell phone games
- Worked with others to supervise a team of 15 testers and produce reports for developers
- Was responsible for final BREW testing (TBT) on games for Verizon phones; assisted in training other leads in TBT procedures
Book & Media Buyer at Grand Opening!
April 2004 - February 2005
Grand Opening! LA was a women-owned and -operated sex shop, a sister store to the flagship in Boston; we provided a safe space for buying adult books, media, and sex toys. We also hosted workshops and taught classes.
- Solely responsible for ordering, organizing, and display of books and other media
- Taught adult sex education classes
- Helped schedule, promote, and facilitate special educational events
- Assisted in all aspects of managing the store
Student Media Consultant at Williams College
September 2002 - June 2003
While a student at Williams, I worked in the Faculty Media Lab, doing a variety of training and logistical tasks. I reported to the head of technology, and assisted both her and all visitors to the lab. I spent most of my time learning about new software and hardware so that I could teach others to use it.
- Trained faculty and staff in use of media
- Created a tutorial and written documentation to help newbies learn iMovie
- Researched and purchased media lab equipment
- Routine troubleshooting of hardware failures (DV/AV equipment, printers, scanners)
Designer at RadioVoodoo
May 2001 - September 2002
My internship at this start-up turned into a full-time job - I took a year off of college to work for RadioVoodoo. At the time, the company's sole focus was making listener lines for radio stations. There are two components to a listener line: the VoiceXML-powered phoneline itself and the web interface which allows a station to customize its prompts, download callers' messages, and view request information.
- Created the design and the front-end code for all the company sites: the corporate site, the product site, the listener line web application, and our internal site
- Created a cast of cartoon characters for RadioVoodoo.com, using Flash and Fireworks
- Developed user interface of a web app that controls Voice XML systems
- Worked with tech to integrate my JS, HTML, and CSS into their XML and Java code
Williams College
B.A. in Fine Art, 2003
My focus in college was painting and drawing, but I also loved my language, computer science, philosophy, and music classes.
- Graduated with honors in my major
- Appointed to the post of Art Dept Teaching Assistant
- Received the Lehman Scholarship for community contributions
- Sang with the Elizabethans (a small, student-run singing group)
- Toured in both Italy and the Baltics with the Concert Choir
- Chaired the Queer Student Union in 1999
- Designed publicity posters for the BGLTU and the Dively Committee
- Contributed art and articles to the Literary Journal, The Real Deal, and other campus publications