Nicole Phillips - Resume

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APPLICATIONS SKILLS

• Director MX
• Dreamweaver MX - CS3
• Final Cut Pro
• Premiere 6.0 - CS3
• Flash MX - MX - CS3
• Illustrator 8- CS3


• Microsoft Office suite
• InDesign CS2 - CS3
• Photoshop 5.5 - CS3
• Windows, XP, Vista, DOS
• Macintosh O/S 9.0 >
• 3D Studio Max

 

Also proficient using ActionScript, CSS, DHTML, HTML, JavaScript, Lingo, PHP.

EDUCATION

Masters Degree in Multimedia Design, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. 2002 - 2004

Certificate in Web & Graphic Design, De Anza College, California, USA. 2000- 2001

Graduate Diploma - Information Management, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Australia. 1994 - 1995

Bachelor of Arts - Fine Art, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Australia. 1989 - 1992

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
Freelance

Studies of Melbourne – Collingwood Gallery
Exhibition of Nicole’s paintings covering the past 20 years. 2006

Your ARts Prizes database
Nicole has been developing this online business for the past several years.

Henry Manetta and the Trip
Site designed and maintained for Melbourne Jazzband.
2008

Daylesford Wine Show
Site designed and maintained for Dayelsford Wine Show.
2008

Pantaloonies
Site designed for fashion company. Includes online order form.
2008

Sweet Messages Chocolate
Website designed for chocolate company in Sydney. Includes design of compay logo. 2006

Maroondah Home Healthcare
Website designed for medical aids company. Designed so staff can add to and update site themselves. 2006

Big Shed Winery
Website designed for winery in central Victoria based on a brief given by the winery owners.
2006

Bendigo Fun Factory
Children's play centre in Bendigo, this site was designed based on a brief given by Fun Factory owners. Site includes CSS image gallery.
2006

Leica Gallery Melbourne
Brief given by the gallery director based on the parent companies' website. 2005 (no longer online)

Chocolate Innovators
Website designed for chocolate company in Tasmania. Includes design of compay logo. 2005

Virtual Tour
Holmesglen Institute of TAFE Information Commons
Interactive virtual tour. 2004

DeAnza College Library Interlibrary Loans
DeAnza is a community college in San Jose, USA. Nicole spent several months studying and working here. As one of her major projects, she designed and built online forms for students to order materials from other campus libraries. 2000

Fane Studios
Developed company logo and animation for Fane Studio's in California. 2000

Dance Studio
Designed company logo for Dance Studio in San Jose, California. 2000

Consult for Disney Productions (Australian branch) to set up a
database (Inmagic +/DB textworks) for the costume department to catalogue
and inventory stock. 1998

RMIT Campus Mural
Painted a large scale mural at RMIT's Fisherman's Bend Campus in Melbourne. 1997

teaching

Alamein Neighbourhood and Learning Centre training adults in basic computing skills, digital imaging, buying and selling on Ebay. This included researching and writing curriculum for these courses. 2006 current

Thornbury Women's Neighbourhood House training adults in multimedia, digital imaging and web design. This included researching and writing curriculum for these courses. 2005 - 2006.

Span Community House training members of the public in Internet, Multimedia and Information Technology.
This included researching and writing curriculum for these courses. 2000

Ongoing

Holmesglen Institute
eLearning Librarian (April 2002- 2008)
Marketing and Publications Librarian (2008 - current)

Liaison and collection development responsibilities for Business, Art and Design Departments.
Responsible for the management and marketing of synchronous reference chat service (LivePerson)
Involved in regular delivery of information literacy classes.
Ongoing marketing of Information Commons services both internally and externally.
Co-convener of TRIG (TAFE Reference Interest Group) 2002 - 2005
Convener of the Learning Commons Innovative Technology Working Party. 2001 - 2008
Convenor of the Learning Commons Publications Working Party (includes preparation of print and web-based user guides) 2008 - current

Glen Eira Library Service.
Reference Librarian/Assistant Branch Manager. (October 2001- April 2002)

De Anza College, Cupertino, California, USA.
Reference Librarian (June - October 2000)

Yarra/ Melbourne Regional Library Corporation.
Reference Librarian and assistant branch manager.
(1996 - 2000)

Melbourne University, Baillieu and Law Libraries.
Copy cataloguer and worked on project to re-classify the law library. (October 1994 - October 1996)

CONFERENCE PAPERS

Phillips, Nicole (2004) 'Electronic and Live: Online Reference Two Years On', Breaking Boundaries: Integration Interoperability, 12th Biennal VALA Conference and Exhibition 3 - 5 February, 2004, Melbourne Convention Centre.
Available at: www.vala.org.au/vala2004/2004pdfs/26Philip.PDF