Sharon O'Brien

B23 Avon Drive West

East Windsor, NJ  08520

Phone: (609) 490-1234

Email: sharon@sharonobrien.com

Website: www.sharonobrien.com

 

PROJECT MANAGEMENT, WEBSITE CONTENT MANAGEMENT

GRAPHIC DESIGN, PRINTING

Manages Jobs, Clients, Production, Contracts, Business Writing.

Publishes and edits web content, promotion.

Works with php and asp, html, various systems of content management, MySql.

Graphics: Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Quark.

Additional tools: Microsoft Office: Excel, Word, Access, Open Office, Power Point.

EMPLOYMENT

12/2006-present

Director of Marketing and Communications for a 501C3 Educational Foundation: Manages, coordinates and publishes website content, advertising, runs special projects. Manages Print Center (large-format printing, using Epson 7600,9600). Manager additional Internet Store, which handles resources for this non-profit. Manages transaction processor and reports for licensing, products, advertising, in-house publications.

NJ

1988-2006

Sole Proprietor, dba Sharon O'Brien

Brochures, logos, murals, furniture, window displays and exhibits.

Website: www.sharonobrien.com.

New York, NY  NJ

1986-1988

President, Thomas & O'Brien Studios

President, Marketing, Designer and Painter of Murals, Photographer's Backdrops. Client Relations. Sales, Project management.

New York, NY

1983-1986

Sole Proprietor, dba Sharon O'Brien

Residential and Commercial Murals, Children's Theatre, Exhibits at Javits Center Kip's Bay Showhouses.

New York, NY

 

EDUCATION

2005

Katharine Gibbs

Associates Degree in Visual Communications

Piscataway, NJ

1992

Cooper Union       

Mathematical Perspective and Drafting

New York, NY

1990-1988

Art Student's League                

Drawing and Painting with Ted Seth Jacobs

New York, NY

1986,1984

Studio & Forum of Stage Design  

Scenic Drafting and Painting

New York, NY

1979-1975

Art Student's League                

Drawing, Illustration, Portraiture

and Painting with Earl Mayan, Richard L. Seyffert and Robert Philipp.

New York, NY

1975-1974

NY State University at New Paltz                     

Drawing, Theory and Art History.

New Paltz, NY

 

 

PUBLICATIONS AND SPECIAL EVENTS

Spring 2004

Graphic Design, prepress, photography editor, handpainting for digital mural for Huisraad at Short Hills Mall, New Jersey with Conrad Gloos Photography.

Short Hills, NJ

2001

Window and Wall Ideas, Spring Issue 2001 Ceiling Mural from Regents Mead featured in article: 'Beauty On High'.

 

1999

Junior League of Princeton Designer Showhouse at Regents Mead; Painted ceiling for Deborah Leahmann Interiors

Princeton, NJ

1986

Kip's Bay Showhouse -Painted landing at 1 East 94th Street, with Thomas & O'Brien: 'Triptych'.

New York, NY

1986

Interior Design, September issue; Headed their Kip's Bay article with Thomas & O'Brien murals from the 1986 Kip's Bay Showhouse.

 

1983

Garden State House & Garden, June issue;  Murals shown in article: 'Classic Elements Redifined'

 

1983

Kip's Bay Showhouse, New York, NY with Interior Designer Russ Calder.

New York, NY