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?

Below is a summary and list of projects.  Please also see my LinkedIn.com profile: Patricia Coogan
  

 

Projects

 

Summary Owner of Words and Pictures.
 
Notable projects: Worked with an instructional designer to design, layout, and construct an interactive, PDF-based management training program CD with fillable forms, and designed the CD art. Designed a web-based school food service training program. Designed HR orientation, employee benefit, and executive compensation program materials for international banking corporation. Designed book and PowerPoint presentation introducing it. 
 
Ongoing work: Designing PowerPoint presentations for trainers, instructional designer, and small businesses. Document layout and graphics of product documentation as second tier for a top-ten ranked Fortune 500 technology company, working with collateral database. Ongoing first- and second-tier contracting relationships to produce presentation materials, manuals, and job aids.
 
Current projects: Working with an offshore oil consulting company to design a book for use with their clients. Working with corporate communications of an international banking corporation to produce Human Resources communication and employee benefit plans materials.
 
Future services: Studying to work with instructional designers and trainers to design and construct e-learning courses.
 
Software in daily use: InDesign; Quark XPress; Illustrator, Photoshop, Acrobat Pro; Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Dreamweaver, Visio.
 
Support for Instructional Designer and Trainers

Worked with instructional designer and trainers: designed and produced training program materials (manuals, brochures, and training aids); designed and produced computer-based training course materials

Graphic design, layout, and desktop publishing 
projects

Designed corporate identity products for multiple companies -- logos, business cards, brochures, and ads  

Designed illustrations, books, booklets, graphics, forms, and PowerPoint presentations. 

Earlier
Projects
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.

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

Design and layout; created set of templates to meet routinely short production deadlines.

Annual reports (8)

Member of desktop publishing team

 

 

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

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.
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). 

 

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