Caroline Tucker
Web & Interactive Designer
caroline@mia-caro.com / mia-caro.com

Project Pumpkin (March 2012)
Purpose: Video game UI/HUD
Client: Rising Gizmo

• Coordinated display and interaction requirements with game designers and programmers.
• Produced UI mockups and graphic assets in Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and Flash.
• Packaged all formatted and documented assets for import into Unity.

Chalkdust (February 2011 – March 2013)
TumblOS (January 2011)
Purpose: Public blog themes

• Produced digital design mockups in Adobe Photoshop.
• Adapted hand-coded standards-compliant XHTML and blog theme styling to proprietary Tumblr markup, including user-configurable options.
• Distributed themes publicly via Tumblr’s Theme Garden collective, amassing thousands of total user installs sitewide.

mia-caro.com (November 2010)
Purpose: Portfolio site

• Produced digital design mockups in Adobe Photoshop.
• Created all graphic assets and coded functional, standards- compliant XHTML pages with external CSS.
• Installed hosted WordPress blogging software with plugins for outside social media.
• Produced custom WordPress theme using WordPress and PHP markup to integrate fully with main site design.

Nightlife (May 2010)
Purpose: Scholastic project

• Produced base graphic assets in Adobe Photoshop.
• Assembled graphic assets in Adobe Flash CS3.
• Implemented tweened animation as well as ActionScript 2.0 scripting for user interactivity.

seene.org (August 2008)
Client: C. M. Farrell
Site: Defunct

• Produced digital design and final design assets in Adobe Photoshop in accordance with client specifications.
• Hand-coded functional, standards-compliant XHTML and PHP pages with external CSS.
• Integrated multiple applications (Lightbox and Zenphoto) to produce custom solutions tailored to project demands.

Savannah College of Art & Design (Savannah, GA)

• BFA, Interactive Design & Game Development, March 2012
• Graduated magna cum laude

College of Central Florida (Ocala, FL)

• Courses: C++ Programming, Java Programming

• SCAD Honors Scholarship
• Dean’s List 2007-2011, Superior Academic Standing
• Mashable.com’s “Our 11 Favorite Tumblr Themes”

Operating Systems

• Windows
• Mac OS Classic
• Mac OS X
• Linux (Various)

Social Media

• Blogger
• Digg
• Facebook
• Flickr
• Google+
• Pinterest
• StumbleUpon
• Tumblr
• Twitter

Computer Software

• Adobe Dreamweaver
• Adobe Flash Professional
• Adobe Illustrator
• Adobe InDesign
• Adobe Photoshop
• Apple Xcode
• Autodesk Maya
• Corel Painter
• Microsoft Office

Programming Languages

• Fluent: HTML/HTML5/XHTML, CSS
• Working Knowledge: ActionScript (Flash), C++, JavaScript, jQuery, MySQL, Objective-C, PHP

Web-Based Applications

• cPanel
• Fantastico
• Gallery
• Google Apps
• Lightbox
• phpBB
• WordPress
• Zenphoto

Other Proficiencies

• iOS development
• Print-based design
• Sequential art/comics
• Digital design & illustration
• Traditional media art
• Creative & blog writing
• Text typography
• 3D modeling & texturing

Last updated April 3, 2013.

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If you are interested in commissioning me for your project, please e-mail me with the details! Rates are quoted on a case-by-case basis and may vary depending on project size and demands.