Judith S. Rivkin
  Lawrenceville, NJ
  Portfolio: http://www.rivkinetic.org/pfolio/pindex.html
  Email: judi.rivkin@alumni.usc.edu

Bullet Point Summary of Skills/Experience
  - Excellent communicator, comfortable with public speaking
  - Wide-ranging event management and promotion experience
  - Creative problem solver
  - Fast-learning self-starter
  - Organized, structured, focused and independent
  - Healthy sense of humor 

Technology
  - Platforms: Macintosh and Windows
  - Graphics: Adobe PhotoShop; Adobe Illustrator; MS PowerPoint;
      Painter4; Various scanners; and digital cameras
  - Internet: HTML; CSS; Arachnophilia; FTP; Macromedia Flash; 
      Adobe ImageReady; Dreamweaver
  - Desktop Publishing: Adobe PageMaker; MS Publisher
  - Business Applications: MS Word; MS Excel; MS Access

Education:
South Seattle Community College, Seattle, WA. 1999-2000. 
  Focus on Web Design.
  - HTML, complex tables, frames, graphics, forms, and cascading
      style sheets
  - complex, graphical site design, composing websites in PhotoShop
  - Macromedia Flash to develop web sites with animation,
      interactivity and audio 
  - concepts of design focusing on layout, navigation, color, 
      and type
  - website planning using flowcharts, color theory, and 
      audience planning 
  - creating website composites, optimizing images and coding
      complex designs 
  - creating publications using PageMaker, including print design
      and layout skills 
  - setting up related database systems and developing tables,
      queries, forms and reports

University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA. 
  BA in Public Relations

Northwestern University, Evanston, IL. 
  Focus on Radio/TV/Film

Work Experience
  Princeton University, Princeton, NJ				3.02-present
  James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, 
  Department of Politics
  · Produce lectures, seminars, conferences
  · Research, select and reserve on- and off-campus locations
  · Create and disseminate publicity via print and emails
  · Update and maintain program website
  · Work with caterers, restaurants, hotels, transportation providers and more
    regarding all aspects of event production
  · Communicate with internal and external visitors, offices and organizations
  · Created and maintained comprehensive database

  Swedish Health Services Research Center, Seattle, WA. 	3.01-10.01
  Institutional Review Board Office   [including 3.01-6.01 as a consultant]
  · Developed written training materials and procedure documentation
  · Maintained filing systems
  · Performed detailed document reviews and analyses
  · Processed confidential, complex research paperwork per appropriate government guidelines    and deadlines
  · Assisted with meeting scheduling and setup
  · Updated and assisted with comprehensive database
 
  Independent website design			11.99-present
  - Special projects - see portfolio for examples
					
  Cellular Technical Services, Seattle, WA.	3.97-8.99
  - Developed customer marketing database
  - Arranged special events
  - Developed training materials for tradeshow exhibit set-up
  - Conducted special industry web research projects
  - Prepared and produced client mailings
  - Updated and managed collateral material

  Seattle Symphony, Seattle, WA.		1.96-1.99
  - Managed production, promotion and administration of 
      chorus (130+ members) 
  - Produced newsletter
  - Conducted site selection and research
  - Priced and purchased music
  - Scheduled auditions, rehearsals
  - Planned annual group retreats
  - Edited and proofread libretti, concert rosters

  Group Health Cooperative, Seattle, WA.	4.92-6.96
  - Edited and proofread newsletter and formatted it in HTML
  - Staffed Executive Council of medical staff
  - Produced annual dinner-dance for 400
  - Coordinated travel and meeting planning

  English Country and Contra Dance Leader	11.92-present
  - Produce and lead dance workshops and dances
  - Create and distribute mailings and press releases; 
      create and maintain related websites
  - Lead and teach dances for events/festivals/groups     

  Temporary work, Seattle, WA.			8.91-4.92
  - Administrative work in downtown Seattle and surrounding
      areas as a new resident in the area

  New York Yankees, New York, NY.		12.87-7.89
  - Executive Assistant to Principal Owner George Steinbrenner
      at his Yankee Stadium office
  - Sole staff person for Olympic Overview Commission
  - Designed, produced and edited Overview Commission Report
      for presentation to the US Olympic Committee in February 1989
  - Coordinated travel and meeting planning for Commission 
      meetings nationwide