Joana Ricou

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Resume

D E S I G N   Experience

Art Director
Duquesne University, 2008-present
Regenerative Medicine Partnership for Life
Graphic Artist, June 2006 - 2008
Tissue Engineering for Life, May 2005 - May 2006
STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
www.sepa.duq.edu and www.sepa.duq.edu/thelab
• art direction of small creative teams
• lead on development and production of innovative education tools, including publc displays, curriculum development, a board game, video games and ESL tools
• Museum and public institution consulting for science/art exhibit design
• Lead on print design - promotion, marketing and education products
• Lead on web design, development and maintenance. Including development of short web-based interactive educational tools for different age groups and backgrounds
• DVD authoring and distribution
• Support of movie production, script writing
• Worked in collaboration with the Carnegie Science Center, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Children's Museum, National Aviary, Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquariums, Phipps Conservatory, and the Entertainment Technology Center

Design Consultancy - Web design
Department of Mathematical Sciences
Carnegie Mellon University, 2008
Publish date August 2008

ICTI - Program in Applied Mathematics
Carnegie Mellon University, 2007
http://icti.math.cmu.edu/index.html

Modern Methods of Variation
Irene Fonseca and Giovanni Leoni , 2007
http://www.math.cmu.edu/~leoni/book1

Pittsburgh Tissue Engineering Initiative
Pittsburgh, PA
September, 2006 - 08
www.ptei.org
• Responsible for SEO, maintenance

School of Computer Science Career Center
and
Mellon College of Science Career Center

Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
June - August 2006
• Developed two web sites for career orientation purposes.
School of Computer Science Career Center
Mellon College of Science Career Center

Derek Wahila
Pittsburgh, April-May 2006

• Assisted in coding a web site in CSS/HTML.
Peter Margittai web site

Sinuate Marketing
Boston, March-April 2006 (remote)

• Created and implemented website for a financial group SUISSE FINANCE (AMERICA)
Suisse Finance web site

Center for Arts Management and Technology (CAMT)
Pittsburgh, PA, March 2006 - September 2006

• Integrated coldfusion into HTML pages, to suit existing websites  
• Worked on three projects with CAMT (Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council, Hawaiian Artist Roster)

Opera Theater of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA, February 2006
• Re-designed the web site for a striking dramatic effect
• Implemented a new web site within two weeks to showcase the 2006 season of shows.

Web Designer
Internship with Patrick Meagher, NY, NY
June 2005

• www.shartshop.org
• Implemented web site from Patrick Meagher's design
• Worked in colaboration in conceptualization.

Web Designer
Engineered Tissue Mechanics Laboratory, Pittsburgh, PA
April, 2005 - January 2006

• Created lab presentation poster
• Designed and implemented new web site
• http://www.pitt.edu/~msacks/etml.html

Web Designer
Society for Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, PA
August 2004 - present
• www.contemporarycraft.org
• Independently programmed website from existing design
• Produced a guidebook for website branding and updating

Minority Science Outreach Facilitator
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

January 2004 – May 2004
• Re-designed MSOP website to provide a more dynamic interaction with prospective students, teachers
and parents
• www.cmu.edu/MSOP

Outreach Assistant/ Graphic Layout Assistant
Society for Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, PA, Summer 2004

• Introduced, developed and designed a tour guide for gallery visitors
• Designed the layout of a “Suggested Reading” pamphlet

Art staff
The Tartan, Carnegie Mellon University Newspaper, Pittsburgh PA January 2003, November 2003

• Created illustration work to accompany articles