CURRICULUM VITAE
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Karen Bonna Rainert
karen@superkb.com
Education
New York University, Tisch School of the Arts
Master of Interactive Telecommunications Program, May 2005
Research: social software, mobile technology, documentary video, storytelling, user interface design
Ohio University, College of Communication
Bachelor of Science in Visual Communication, June 2000
Professional Experience
New York University, New York, NY
Manager of Interactive Communications
May 2005 - Present
Co-Founder and Chief Design Officer
May 2004 - August 2005
Graphic Designer
May 2001 - May 2005
Art Assistant
December 2000 - May 2001
Web Designer and Art Intern
June 2000 - September 2000
Download Resume
Karen Bonna Rainert
karen@superkb.com
Education
New York University, Tisch School of the Arts
Master of Interactive Telecommunications Program, May 2005
Research: social software, mobile technology, documentary video, storytelling, user interface design
Ohio University, College of Communication
Bachelor of Science in Visual Communication, June 2000
Professional Experience
New York University, New York, NY
Manager of Interactive Communications
May 2005 - Present
- Direct technology initiatives for the School of Arts and Science
- Provide expertise to drive conceptual development and solutions for the creation and implementation of marketing and interactive materials
- Define design, content and feature guidelines for over 100 client-facing websites
- Create and manage project plans, estimates, scope of work documents, requirements, risk assessments, specifications, schedules, and budgets of all online and offline publications
- Facilitate effective workflow between a team of developers, designers, writers and the Arts and Science faculty and administration
Co-Founder and Chief Design Officer
May 2004 - August 2005
- Defined features and functionality for the mobile platform
- Developed and designed UI for the mobile application
- Designed and architected front end, client-side web interface
Graphic Designer
May 2001 - May 2005
- Created and maintained the design of the School of Arts and Sciences' web, print and electronic materials
- Composed branding, marketing and education pieces, websites and CDs for the Graduate School of Arts and Science and College of Arts and Science
- Art directed advertisements and contract work
Art Assistant
December 2000 - May 2001
- Designed pages and graphics for monthly financial magazine
- Commissioned illustrators and photographers
- Edited and color-corrected pictures and images, pre-flighted pages for production
Web Designer and Art Intern
June 2000 - September 2000
- Designed pages and infographics for various sections of the magazine and website
- Researched content for informational graphics and worked with writers to develop visually-based concepts to assist articles
- Designed content-related graphics for the news and edu websites
Related Experience
Volunteer Web Designer for Taproot Organization
Photoshop and Illustrator Tutor for small businesses
Achievements
June 2005
SubAlerts highlighted in The Feature
September 2004
Socialight presented at the Ubiquitous Computing Conference, Nottingham, England
July 2004
Socialight featured in The Guardian
May 2004
Socialight featured on engadget.com
Technologies
Photoshop
Illustrator
InDesign
Quark
HTML
XML
CSS
MySQL
PHP
Perl
Flash
Final Cut Pro