In-Class Assignment
Sara R.
Software:
  • Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Flash, Adobe Dreamweaver, Adobe ImageReady, Adobe Illustrator, LiveType, Final Cut Pro, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, multiple FTP clients, DVD Studio Pro, Windows Movie Maker.
  • Some experience in Autodesk Maya, Autodesk Inventor, Autodesk 3D Studio Max, Motion, Adobe Premiere, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Fireworks, Adobe Acrobat, Adobe InDesign, Labview.

Skills and Talents:
Skills:
  • Leadership skills, communication skills, conflict resolution skills, teamwork, patience, attention to detail.
  • T-shirt logo design and production.
  • Interactive website Information Architecture design and programming.
  • Public relation presentation skills and design.
  • Teaching children of all ages.
  • Creation of cohesive visual identity based on target audience evaluations.
  • Grammar, spelling, essay writing and editing.
  • Print design, creative presentation display materials. Press kit production.
  • Networking and fundraising.
  • Innovative web design and development.
  • Some mechanical engineering, mechanics, and electrical engineering.
  • Fluent in HTML, CSS, and ActionScript languages. Some understanding of PHP, AJAX, C, C++, Javascript, Java, XHTML languages.

Talents:
  • Strong graphic design sense. On the fly advertisement production. Good in a fast-paced environment with short, finite deadlines. Working under pressure.
  • Vector art and pixel art.
  • Freehand drawing, especially abstract.
  • Great with children, especially preschool age.
  • Learn new softwares quickly.
  • Play piccolo and flute.

Favorite Things:
  • YouTube - no, seriously. Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, LiveJournal, etc. - I kind've have an internet obsession.
  • High-end haute couture fashion.
  • Bright 80s color themes.
  • crazy, elaborate makeup, especially that done for editorials.
  • Headbands.
  • Music - listening to music, writing music, playing music, talking about music. vocal, instrumental, etc.
  • Metallic colors - silver, gold, blue. Like car paint colors. Even metallic black is awesome, like onyx.
  • Diet Caffeine Free Pepsi

Interests:
  • Web design - I really love to reevaluate websites and talk about what they did wrong.
  • Teaching - well, yes and no. I get impatient sometimes, but it's really great to see the end result when you've been working with a student for months.
  • Robots - yep, read more about that in my passionate thing.
  • Installations for fine art. Like Tim Hawkinson. He does some badass installation art pieces.

Passions:
  • FIRST - Seriously ADDICTED. That's not even a joke. I can't stop talking about it. It makes me happy, teaching people about it makes me happy, knowing that other people know about it makes me happy. And you, reading, right now, if you don't know what I'm talking about go visit www.usfirst.org.
  • Blogging- I really like the idea of posting something and having it just exist out there forever in the digital world.
  • Pixel art - I started it accidentally actually. Someone had this really cool drawing in her signature of a forum I belonged to, and I asked her how she did it, and I just kind of got obsessed. I have HUNDREDS of pixel pieces, and I am always trolling websites to find new pieces I like and might be inspired by to make NEW pixel pieces.

Hates:
  • BAD GRAMMAR and spelling. Omg, it makes me crazy. I can let go with typos or a few missed words, but if you start blogging with "Omg last night u was craaaaaazy," I seriously consider buying a shotgun and killing people.
  • Large groups where people don't get anything done. Working in a group can be fun, but when you work with like 50 people, and 3 people are working on the other project, why are the other 47 people sitting around?
  • When someone changes a good song right in the middle.
  • Being REQUIRED to wear heels or get dressed up for work.
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5 Responses
  1. Georgia Lalla Says:
    January 27, 2009 at 5:50 PM

    I think that you would be great in teaching. From the first class i understood that you are very good in communicating with other people. Because my English is not that great and I am very sorry for my Grammar, whenever you would say something i could understand it because you have many ways to explain what you want to say. I hope that you understand what I write above. Maybe you never thought about it but I really think that communication is very important and I had professors in the past that i could not understand what they wanted me to do in class. Again sorry for my English! :)


  2. Sara R. Says:
    January 27, 2009 at 5:53 PM

    Thanks Georgia - not to worry, you're doing great with your English. =)

    I considered teaching, but I get easily frustrated. I'm a little nervous about teaching people, because if they don't get it after like...the tenth time, I get annoyed.

    I wonder if that's something I could be taught - like finding new skills to be able to better explain something.


  3. Georgia Lalla Says:
    January 27, 2009 at 6:22 PM

    Well, if the person does not understand what you are trying to teach him/her after the tenth time, then it is definitely NOT your fault!!! I'm pretty sure you are going to be a great teacher as long as you like what you're doing!!!


  4. Charlotte Says:
    January 29, 2009 at 11:50 AM

    If you like teaching, you can practice on me! Tell me everything you know! You might even want to collaborate with me on the Princeton Professor's Persian Website, and you can have it gleaming on your resume too. Please follow my blog and comment, you'll be ambidexterous soon! Charlotte


  5. Sara R. Says:
    February 3, 2009 at 6:39 PM

    @Charlotte

    Thanks Charlotte. Will do. Let me know more about this Princeton Professor site collab?


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