mia caro - caroline tucker (art/design/etcetera)

Caroline Tucker
web designer • graphic designer • illustrator
caroline@mia-caro.com • http://mia-caro.com

Experience

Grenier (April 2011)
Purpose: Scholastic project (iOS game)

  • Illustrated concept art and design sketches.
  • Produced base graphic assets in Adobe Photoshop.
  • Developed all program code in Xcode with cocos2D and Objective-C language.

Chalkdust (February 2011)
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: Personal project

  • 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.
Education

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
Awards & Achievements Professional Skills

Operating Systems

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

Social Media

  • Blogger
  • Del.icio.us
  • Digg
  • Facebook
  • Flickr
  • Google+
  • Pinterest
  • StumbleUpon
  • Tumblr
  • Twitter

Computer Software

  • Adobe Creative Suite
  • Autodesk Maya
  • Corel Painter
  • The GIMP
  • MS Office/OpenOffice
  • Apple Xcode

Programming Languages

  • Fluent: HTML/XHTML, CSS
  • Working Knowledge: JavaScript, jQuery, MySQL, PHP, ActionScript 2.0 (Flash), C++, Objective-C

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 4, 2012.

Download this resume as a PDF here.

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.