Cassie Walker, a graduate of the Art Institute of Philadelphia, has worked as a Graphic Designer since 1992. She started drawing as a child and picked up the paintbrush in art school…and hasn’t put it down since. Her profession has taken her to Philadelphia, PA, London, England, and Los Angeles, CA, where she has designed for Comcast, DuPont, Fox Searchlight Pictures, and SAP to name a few. While living in these places she was also exposed to a savory collection of art, both in graphic design and fine art. You can check out my fine art creations at cassiehillis.com.
Skills Set:
While I have a degree in Graphic Design, being a strong self learner has kept me up-to-date on all the latest techniques and trends. I started out hand-coding in html back in 1996. Currently, most of the site build are php, with hand-coded css, and some flash elements. Work with a lot of open source widgets to give sites full functionality like shopping carts, contact forms, and dynamic calendars. My past portfolio site has a full resume and dynamic samples of work.
Print and Web Design, Banners, Video Editing for Web and DVD, Color Correction,
Photo Manipulation, HTML Emailers, Flash
Applications (PC and Mac): Adobe Photoshop,
Adobe Illustrator, InDesign, QuarkXpress,
Adobe Flash, Adobe After Effects
Code: HTML, CSS with DIVs, XUL, Javascript, Flash Actionscript, Some PHP
Most recent positions held:
Trinity Transport - Seaford, DE
TITLE: Web & Graphic Designer/Programmer
WORK: Application development with a team using Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, and XUL. Graphic design for print materials. Front-end web design and maintenance.
June 2006 - August 2008 (currently a freelance contractor for them)
AstraZeneca - Wilmington, DE
TITLE: Web Designer/Project Manager
WORK: Managing U.S. design needs from brand and unbranded pharmaceuticals.
May 2004 - March 2005
Earle Palmer Brown.interactive/Iliad - Philadelphia, PA
TITLE: Associate Creative Director
WORK: Designed and built two interactive CDs in Director, and designed and set up the print for their packaging. Designed and implemented several websites and web related marketing material. Worked with The Attik and Manhattan Transfer on a Comcast commercial where I designed a series of comps for print of an information pipe for the client and then consulted for EPB when it went to broadcast.
CLIENTS: Novartis, Vespel, Fiberlink, Pepco, Comcast
December 1999 - August 2001
Xstream Interactive - Newtown Square, PA
TITLE: Art Director
WORK: Created 640×480 animations that were projected on to a big screen at trade shows. Designed print work: signage, cd packaging, logos for trade shows. Worked on SAP’s website.
CLIENTS: DuPont, Lycra, Corian, SAP
January 1999 - December 1999
Pricewaterhouse Coopers - Philadelphia, PA & London, England
TITLE: Senior Interactive Designer
WORK: Customized Supply Chain Management Training CDs. In London, worked with a team for six months to design a customized training CD on financial trading full of 3D worlds, animated characters, and simulated trading interfaces. I worked in After Effects, Photoshop, and 3D Studio Max to create elements.
CLIENTS: SAP, Nabisco, Oracle, Exxon, PeopleSoft
November 1996 - January 1999
