Andrea A. Fisher--Resume

Professional Experience

Feb. 1997 to present Art Director; Berenter, Greenhouse & Webster. Designed and produced as many as 80 print ads a day. Provided art direction for direct mail pieces, free-standing inserts, posters, and other material. Prepared Quark Xpress files and related art for electronic transmission (disk or PDF.)

May 1996 to Jan. 1997 Assistant Media Planner; Berenter, Greenhouse & Webster. Created insertion orders for over 250 publications. Distributed and tracked ad copy. Solved billing conflicts and errors with various publications.

Aug. 1995 to Apr. 1996 Computer Consultant, University of Michigan Information Technology Division. Assisted users in solving computing problems. Maintained computing sites and software. Troubleshot software and hardware and performed minor repairs Tracked repairs from inception to completion.

Nov. 1994 to Aug. 1995 Staff News Reporter, Eastern Echo. Conducted interviews after contacting potential sources. Attended and recorded meetings. Wrote stories in AP style. Met scheduled deadlines.

Jan. 1995 to July 1995 Composition Assistant, Sport Facilities Research Laboratory. Copy-edited On Ice, a national ice arena newsletter. Wrote and edited feasibility studies for clients around the nation. Entered and analyzed data from various community surveys.

Sep. 1991 to Jan. 1992 Staff Designer, Midnight Sun. Wrote and copy-edited articles and designed advertising and feature pages for a yearbook.

Sep. 1990 to June 1992 Editor-In-Chief, Free Verse. Copy-edited submissions and laid out photographs and text for a literary magazine. Wrote submissions.

Education

B.A. from Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI.

GPA 3.47 (3.8 in major)
Journalism major, Japanese language minor.

Skills

Computers

IBM-PC, DOS, Windows, Macintosh, VMS, Ultrix and SunOS.
Experienced with 4D, MS Word, MS Excel, Quark Xpress, PageMaker, Photoshop, FileMaker Pro, DeskScan II, AdSend, VistaScan, etc.
3 years as a computing site consultant.
6 months diagnosing simple hardware problems.

Internet

Adept with pine, elm, VMS mail, Banyan, and Eudora E-mail , NCSA Telnet, NCSA Mosaic, Netscape, Internet Explorer, Fetch, etc.
Experience using the World Wide Web, Gopher, and other means of research.
Languages: HTML, Perl, PASCAL, learning Java.

Japanese

Can speak Japanese.
Can read and write hiragana and katakana.
Can read and write some kanji.

Organizations

EMU Chapter Representative, Women in Communications, Inc.
Member, Golden Key Honor Society

This page was last modified on Friday, 05-Mar-1999 15:19:19 PST by Andrea A. Fisher

Feb. 1997 to present	Art Director; Berenter, Greenhouse & Webster. Designed and produced as many as 80 print ads a day. Provided art direction for direct mail pieces, free-standing inserts, posters, and other material. Prepared Quark Xpress files and related art for electronic transmission (disk or PDF.)
May 1996 to Jan. 1997	Assistant Media Planner; Berenter, Greenhouse & Webster. Created insertion orders for over 250 publications. Distributed and tracked ad copy. Solved billing conflicts and errors with various publications.
Aug. 1995 to Apr. 1996	Computer Consultant, University of Michigan Information Technology Division. Assisted users in solving computing problems. Maintained computing sites and software. Troubleshot software and hardware and performed minor repairs Tracked repairs from inception to completion.
Nov. 1994 to Aug. 1995	*Staff News Reporter, Eastern Echo.* Conducted interviews after contacting potential sources. Attended and recorded meetings. Wrote stories in AP style. Met scheduled deadlines.
Jan. 1995 to July 1995	Composition Assistant, Sport Facilities Research Laboratory. Copy-edited On Ice, a national ice arena newsletter. Wrote and edited feasibility studies for clients around the nation. Entered and analyzed data from various community surveys.
Sep. 1991 to Jan. 1992	*Staff Designer, Midnight Sun.* Wrote and copy-edited articles and designed advertising and feature pages for a yearbook.
Sep. 1990 to June 1992	*Editor-In-Chief, Free Verse.* Copy-edited submissions and laid out photographs and text for a literary magazine. Wrote submissions.

Computers	IBM-PC, DOS, Windows, Macintosh, VMS, Ultrix and SunOS. Experienced with 4D, MS Word, MS Excel, Quark Xpress, PageMaker, Photoshop, FileMaker Pro, DeskScan II, AdSend, VistaScan, etc. 3 years as a computing site consultant. 6 months diagnosing simple hardware problems.
Internet	Adept with pine, elm, VMS mail, Banyan, and Eudora E-mail , NCSA Telnet, NCSA Mosaic, Netscape, Internet Explorer, Fetch, etc. Experience using the World Wide Web, Gopher, and other means of research. Languages: HTML, Perl, PASCAL, learning Java.
Japanese	Can speak Japanese. Can read and write hiragana and katakana. Can read and write some kanji.