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ANN V. MONACO
Illustration and Graphic Arts
Email: avm@animedrgngrl.com
 
 
Objective:
I am searching for a position that uses my skills and gives me an opportunity to learn new ones.

Education:
B.F.A Massachusetts College of Art, Boston Massachusetts
Notre Dame High School, Lawrenceville New Jersey


Skills:
Watercolor, pen & ink, graphite, colored pencil, acrylic paint, 3D mixed media illustration, technical drawing/drafting, layout, black & white photography, computer illustration, web design

Computer Experience:
Adobe PhotoShop, Adobe Painter, QuarkExpress, MS Word, WordPerfect, Excel, Adobe Illustrator, HTML, and related applications (PC and Mac platforms)       

Professional Experience:
November 2, 2004 - Present: The Tech Museum of Innovation, San Jose, CA
Retail Sales Associate
Perform general customer service duties, including having active knowledge of products and stock on hand, as well as being able to demonstrate various products, cashiering, assisting in store maintenance, and maintaining the Tech's standard of customer service.

August 31 2001 – June 12, 2004: Barnes & Noble, Princeton, NJ/San Jose, CA
Musicseller/Bookseller

Performed general customer service duties, including having active knowledge of current releases for both books and music, knowledge of current stock and availability, assisted in department maintenance, cashiering, returns, and taking customer orders.

August 31, 1999 – May 10, 2001: Boston Scientific Corporation, Quincy, MA
Contracts Co-ordinator/Customer Service Representative

Took over-the-phone orders from hospitals and other medical facilities, provided product information, distributed latex and MRI letters upon request, entered faxed orders as needed, and maintained and updated customer contract, contract pricing, and product information in company database.

June 1, 1999 – June 11, 1999: Inkadinkado, Woburn, MA
Freelance Production Designer

Used Adobe PhotoShop, Adobe Illustrator, and QuarkExpress to design and ready plates for manufacture and production of stamps, organized and kept track of images to be sent, plated, or resized, organized a listing of images plated, sent for plate manufacture, and received for initial run

May 1998 – May 1999: Barnes & Noble, Princeton, NJ
Lead Bookseller

Supervised the Genre Fiction section, designed “end-cap” displays for featured titles, performed receiving and cashiering duties and kept track of stock popularity and sales

1996 – 1998: B. Dalton Booksellers, Cambridge, MA
Bookseller/Display Designer

As part of bookselling duties, designed floor and shelf displays for featured titles and gifts


Exhibitions:
Senior Design Show and Open Portfolio Day, Massachusetts College of Art, Alumni Gallery
New Visions, Massachusetts College of Art, Smith Hall Gallery
Laughing Dragon, Massachusetts College of Art, Smith Hall Gallery


Volunteer Work:
June 2000 – T-shirt logo for Princeton University Annual Staff Picnic
May 1998 – June 1998: T-shirt logo for Middlesex County Division of the NJ Summer Special Olympics
Summer 1992 – Logo for the Willows Swim Club, Middlesex, NJ



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