work experience
1997 to present

Susan W. Gilday Design

Freelance design business

Arlington, Mass.

Principal Designer

Clients: St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center, Bio-IT World, CIO magazine, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies, Houghton-Mifflin Co., Cengage Publishing, Rockport Publishers, Tufts University
2000 to 2002

CXO Media

Publisher of business magazines

CIO (bi-monthly) and Darwin (monthly)

Framingham, Mass.

Sr. Designer

Designed feature articles
Hired photographers and illustrators
Tracked budgets
1993 to 1997

Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce

Design studio within non-profit organization

Boston, Mass.

Graphic Designer

Designed all print materials
Scheduled workflow
Obtained competitive bids for printing
1991 to 1993

Mosby/Wm. C. Brown Publishers

College science textbook publisher

Boston, Mass.

Asst. Editor/Art Dept.

Developed art program
Hired/supervised freelance artists
1986 to 1990

Sky & Telescope

Monthly astronomy magazine

Cambridge, Mass

Design Coordinator

Supervised design staff
Designed layouts
Scheduled workflow
1984 to 1986

Science News

Weekly science magazine

Washington, D.C.

Assistant to the Editor

Designed in-house ads and editorial pages
Proofread and copyedited articles
education

Center for Digital and Imaging Arts at Boston University

Waltham, Mass.

Web Design Certificate

Graduation: January 2010

Massachusetts College of Art

Boston, Mass.

Graphic Design Certificate

Graduated: May 1996

State University of New York

Potsdam, New York

B.A. Physics

Graduated: May 1982

honors: Regents Scholarship,
graduated cum laude

websites

emersonumbrella.org

Practicum project for CDIA. Did front-end design and coding using javascript and jQuery. Set up site in Wordpress so client can manage content.

gilday.com

Redesigned website for residential design/build company. Though I initially handled only the visual design, I am currently reworking the code as well.

awards

2005

CASE Award

Excellence in Visual Design

Tufts University Alumni
Resource Guide

2002

ASBPE Award

Best Special Section

CIO

2001

Print’s Regional Design Annual

CIO

1995, 1996

ACCE Awards of Merit
and Excellence

Greater Boston
Chamber of Commerce

1992

Star Performer Award

Mosby

computer skills

Proficent in:

Adobe InDesign, Illustrator & Photoshop

Macromedia Dreamweaver

HTML, XHTML

CSS

Working Knowledge in:

Adobe Flash

Javascript

JQuery

MySQL

PHP

Wordpress