Michelle Cooke

• Providing assistance to a Teacher with a small groups of students assigned to a designated special education instructional program; monitor and oversee student drills, practices and assignments in various subjects.
• Collaborate with the teacher concerning lesson plans and materials to meet student needs.
• Delivered personalized educational, behavioral, and emotional support to individual students to enable positive learning outcomes.
• Assisted in maintaining engaging and respectful educational environment by promoting discipline and cooperation.
• Took part in professional development workshops to boost skills.
• I am to perform a variety of clerical duties in support of classroom activities such as preparing, typing, duplicating and filing instructional materials; grade student tests and assignments; answer telephones and schedule activities as assigned.

• Successfully monitor student performance or assist students in academic environments, such as classrooms, laboratories, or computing-centers.
• Review class material with students by discussing text, working solutions to problems, or reviewing worksheets or other assignments.
• Provide feedback to students using positive reinforcement techniques to encourage, motivate, or build confidence in students.
• Worked with student’s aged 15 to 18.
• Explained complex concepts using easy-to-understand terms.
• Communicated with teachers to update them on student progress.
• Work effectively with students with diverse learning needs and cultural backgrounds.

• Successfully manage and coordinate graphic design projects from concept through completion.
• Work closely with clients to create vision, conceive designs, and consistently meet deadlines and requirements.
• Interacted with customers by phone, email, or in-person to provide information.
• Managed daily data entry and kept clerical information accurate and up-to-date.
• Answered and managed incoming and outgoing calls while recording accurate messages for distribution to office staff.
• Effectively build, motivate, and direct design and production teams.
• Coordinate freelance designers, consultants and vendors to meet all project requirements.
• Create and conduct highly persuasive sales and marketing presentations.

• Successfully translated subject matter into concrete design for newsletters, promotional materials and sales collateral.
• Created design theme and graphics for marketing and sales presentations, training videos and corporate websites.
• Participated in team effort to produce streamlined production of policy manuals and educational materials.

Key Achievements:

• Earned several awards for providing graphic design support to both headquarter employees and hundreds of field offices.
• Successfully created sign design solutions that have high visual impact for new and existing clients.
• Worked collaboratively with clients to gain a detailed understanding of the brief and created visual mock us of creative solution.

• Supported the marketing manager in developing and implementing marketing plans for the company
• The position involves significant multitasking while coordinating and communicating information throughout the marketing department
• Assigned to produce the new tile collection brochures along with multiple projects such as tear sheets and managing the business website.
• Generated leads through phone calls, emails and face-to-face interactions.

• Created new design themes with high visual impact for marketing and collateral materials
• Collaborated with creative team to design and produce computer-generated artwork for marketing and promotional materials across a wide range of platforms including social media, magazines, computer games, packaging, corporate communications and corporate branding
• Participated in production of print and promotional items for key clients under direction of Marketing Department

Key Achievements:

• Consistently recognized for fresh and innovative ideas and applications
• Developed new art-proofing system that increased overall quality of production and improved customer satisfaction to 97%
• Recruited by Starr Sign to become their Senior Graphic Designer.