About The Author - Resume of Aliyah Marr

ALIYAH MARR

Email me at:

myfullname@gmail.com

OBJECTIVE

Seeking new creative challenges that capitalize on my experience in marketing, public relations, business development, and design. A senior creative with an established track record in corporate training, marketing and graphic design, I evaluate products, analyze marketing efforts of companies big and small.

A keen observer of popular culture as it relates to design and technology, I write articles on media, design, popular culture, alternative culture (health, art, architecture, eco-consciousness), interactive interfaces, and current trends in technology.

MAJOR ACCOMPLISHMENTS

– Author of a book on creativity, featured in a blog online
– Author of six blogs and two wikis
– Senior creative for fortune 100 Clients
– Teacher at three major design schools in NYC
– Launched and marketed several startup companies
– Designer for two major feature films
– Seminar leader at multimedia conferences

EXPERIENCE

Author

ParallelMind — Author of the world’s first interactive online book on creativity, published as it is written in a blog online. Parallel Mind is about how to access the innate creative force in all of us by awakening the inner child.
– http://parallelmind.wordpress.com

FreshAsylum — Business, design, marketing, media, technology, viral marketing, and culture
– http://FreshAsylum.wordpress.com

AltEverything — Alternative choices in everything, such as food, healthcare, vacation resorts, architecture
– http://AltEverything.wordpress.com

GaiaParadigm — Eco-consciousness, business ethics, social responsability
— http://gaiaparadigm.wordpress.com

Copywriter

Embody The Goddess Skincare — Copy for product line: product descriptions, advertising, website, poetry on tags
– http://www.embody-the-goddess.com

Decor-8-with-art-posters-prints
Copy on website: descriptions of decorating styles, artists
— http://www.decor-8-with-art-posters-prints.com

Benin Futur
Edited copy on French language website promoting the development of Benin
— http://www.afeec.net/benin_futur

2006 Whitney Biennial Flash Movie
Wrote and edited copy for the Whitney Museum of American Art Biennial movie
‡ http://www.whitney.org/www/2006biennial/index.php

Studio Productions, Inc
Wrote and edited copy for advertising, brochures, and website

Writer / Producer

Nautilus CD Magazine, 1997-2000 — Wrote, designed, and produced six tutorial movies every two months on working with multimedia. Various software was covered on both Mac and PC platforms. Nautilus CD Magazine was the world’s first interactive magazine.

RELATED EXPERIENCE

Designer, Art Director / Creative Director New York City & SoCal

Planet X, Creative Director, Sr. Producer; 2006-2007 — In charge of interactive / broadcast / broadband media.

FreshAsylum, Principal; 2001-2006 — Small specialized web-design firm with set of loyal clients.

Digitas, Senior Art Director; 1999-2000 — Graphic Design / Interface Design / Conceptual Development / Team Management
Accounts: Morgan Stanley Dean Witter / Chivas / American Express

MDA, Principal; 1989-1998 — Graphic design firm with projects in print, advertising, and publishing
Accounts: Studio Productions, Inc., Orion Films, The Waylon Co. The North American Review, American Institute of Conservation, Nautilus CD Magazine

• CLIENT LIST: Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, Motorola, IBM, American Express, Chivas, Science Direct, Studio Productions Inc., Harquin Design Group, Dr. Susan Gregg, Martin Training Associate, Six Sigma Qualtec, Radi8.org, ScienceDirect, Modem Media/Poppe Tyson, Whitney Museum of American Art, San Diego Folklife, USWeb CKS

Design Professor NYC design schools
Interactive design / programming / video editing / motion graphics
– Parson’s School of Design, Communication Design, Adjunct Professor; 1997-2004
– Pratt Institute, New Media, Adjunct Professor; 1999
– The School of Visual Arts, Computer Art, Adjunct Professor, NYC; 1996-2001

Seminars / Corporate Training
Speaker / Trainer

– NYC Economic Development Corporation, Macromedia Director
– The Lakegroup, QuarkXpress / Photoshop
– Norelco, QuarkXpress / Photoshop
– Xando Corp, Illustrator / QuarkXpress / Photoshop
– MacAcademy, Macromedia Director
– Quest Motion Pictures, Macromedia Director
– Multimedia ‘95, Toronto, Canada; 2 seminars on multimedia design

EDUCATION

School of Visual Arts: Broadcast Design
Art Academy of Cincinnati, Design, Illustration; studied with Roy Behrens
Indiana University, graduate studies in Printmaking
L’Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris, France, Diploma in Fine Art

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS
Writing comes easily to this self-motivated, entrepreneurial, lateral thinker. Expert in the fields of creativity, communication, design, and marketing. Able to learn a new subject quickly, then turn around and write about it. I like to connect, communicate, educate, develop, design, and innovate. Diverse interests, broad education, cultured, and bilingual (French / English).

INTERESTS
Actionsports, surfing, athletics, traveling, ecology, eco-resorts, architecture, art, culture, history, science, education, quantum physics, literature, music, dance.

KEYWORD SUMMARY
Author, Writer, Copywriter, Seminar Leader, Marketer, Advertising, Branding, Graphic Design, Interactive Design, Communication Design, Multimedia, User Interface Design, Web Design, Technology, Cult Marketing, Buzz Marketing, Viral Marketing, Web 2.0, Teaching Interface, Social Networking, Niche Marketing, Popular Culture, Alternative Culture, Visual Thinking, Creative Director, Art Director, Graphic Designer

Email me at:

myfullname@yahoo.com