Patricia Coogan... providing personal service to Houston, The Woodlands, and Conroe, Texas; and remote service via the web.

Projects

What Have I Done for Others?

Here's a list of projects and the software used for each. Clients are listed on the Portfolio page.
  

Projects

(1999-2007)  

Worked with instructional designer on several projects: designed and produced training program materials (manuals, brochures, and training aids); designed and produced ...cd-rom

Employee performance
program

Worked with training consultant: designed/typeset trainer manual and participant manual; produced PowerPoint presentation.

XPress/Mac
MS Word/Win
PowerPoint/Win

Graphic design and desktop publishing 
projects

Designed corporate identity products-- logos, business cards, brochures, ads, and small-business web sites (including all Words and Pictures material and web site). 

Designed technical illustrations, booklets, graphics, forms, PowerPoint presentations, and newsletters. 

Designed employee directories and organization charts.

Illustrator/Mac&Win
Freehand/Mac
XPress/Mac&Win
MS Word/Mac&Win
FileMaker/Mac
Visio/Win
MS FrontPage/Win

Employee benefit
documentation

Rewrote text and redesigned format and information display of SPDs, forms, and communication pieces for team review (health & welfare, savings, retirees, executive compensation plans). 

XPress/Mac
Illustrator/Mac
 

Converted files to online format for corporate intranet

Converted SPDs to Acrobat (PDF) format for online distribution; determined and created functions, index, hotspots, and links; wrote user instructions.

Acrobat/Mac,Win
XPress/Mac,Win 
Illustrator/Mac,Win
Photoshop/Mac,Win

Administration manual conversion to online database

Rewrote and redesigned hard-copy manual into online database for corporate intranet; converted descriptive text into process text and infographics; wrote instructions for users and administrator.

MS Word/Win
Lotus Notes/Win
Visio/Win

Converted large database of documents from Mac platform to PC platform

Converted and reformatted Quark XPress, Illustrator, and Photoshop documents; developed graphic files for use in various software programs.

MS Word/Win
XPress/Mac,Win
Illustrator/Mac,Win
Photoshop/Mac,Win
 

Books and articles

Worked with author and typeset book for print; converted to Acrobat for commercial, online-distribution publisher.

Edited, designed, and typeset booklet from speaker's presentations.

Edited speaker's presentation notes into published series of newspaper articles.

XPress/Mac
Acrobat/Mac

Earlier
Projects

(1989-99)

Business writing and information design

Wrote management research reports; edited and abstracted transcripts; wrote (as team member) and designed management training program dictionaries; flowcharted processes

MS Word/Win
XPress/Mac
Illustrator/Mac

Indexing and database development

Created indexes for training manuals.

Indexed large volume of research material (3,000 items), presentation transcripts (900), and training documents (1,000); developed databases providing real-time access.

Paradox/Win
XPress/Mac
Zyindex/Win 

Training-program forms and graphic-presentation documents (1,000)

Designed for in-office production.

Created set of templates to meet routinely short production deadlines.

XPress/Mac
Illustrator/Mac
Word Perf/Win

Annual reports (8) 

Member of desktop publishing team.

XPress/Mac

Computer-based training program

Produced graphics for Macromedia program (team member); designed sales material (team member).

Authorware/Win
Photoshop/Win
XPress/Mac

 

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