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Corporate Training
For years I've had the good fortune to work with great clients from California to Washington, and beyond. From Acrobat forms and multimedia training to InDesign, Illustrator training, as well as CSS and Dreamweaver web training,
I've provided highly effective, results-driven training to clients in multiple industries---retail, A/E, graphic design, advertising, legal, accounting, manufacturing, newspaper. Below are a few examples of the many clients I've had the priviledge to work with.
- Small Company:
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Training Project:
I’ve worked with several departments over the years, focusing on InDesign, Illustrator, and Acrobat, but it all started in 2004, when I trained one of their in-store merchandising teams in best practices for using Acrobat and PDF.
The team manager was so pleased with the results of my training, she sent me this email:
Client Quote:
Having a class focused on my team's specific needs was better than any training I have taken in the past 5 years… Taking this class has improved the file hand-off with our print vendor and is also helping us prepare to post our tools online. We all really had fun as well - what a bonus to be able to laugh and enjoy the 6 HOUR TRAINING. That hardly ever happens."
- Mid-Size Company:
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Training Project:
Since 2006, I’ve trained several departments at the corporate offices of this top-notch retailer every year in various Adobe software. I’ve facilitated several of their software transitions over the years, including moving from FreeHand to InDesign, QuarkXPress to InDesign, and transitioning to new versions of the entire Adobe Creative Suite for both web and print.
They’re a great group, and it’s truly a pleasure every time they call me with a new training project!
- Large Company: Starbucks
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Training Project:
These community college teachers in the Graphic Design Program brought me in when they needed to make a swift transition in their own teaching curricula to a new version of the Adobe Creative Suite.
The training was such a success, the Chair of the Graphic Design Program sent me this email right after the training:
Client Quote:
We were very pleased with the customized approach you took with us. In teaching "Switching from Quark to InDesign" it required that you understood the level of Quark we were currently using and translate that easily into InDesign. What was truly useful were the times you said, "your students will get tripped up or confused by this concept. . ." giving us a warning about the pitfalls our own students would have. Knowing what we needed was extremely important. You were realistic about the InDesign shortcomings but enthusiastic about the benefits of the switch. This was different from any course in InDesign because there needed to be so much comparison between the two programs and sometimes with Photoshop and Illustrator. I just can't say enough about how important the customized approach was. We got exactly what we needed.”
- Large Company: Adobe
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Training Project:
The team responsible for updating an existing intranet site for this Fortune 500 retailer called me when they were making the switch from Microsoft FrontPage to Microsoft Expression Web using CSS.
In just three days, they not only learned how to edit their current site in Expression Web, they also learned how to rebuild the site’s existing pages, most of which were tables-based, using web standards-compliant CSS.
- Small Company:
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Training Project:
The Department of Horticulture at Oregon State University reached out to me in a panic, suddenly tasked with maintaining the departmental web site, but having few, if any, web skills. Their deadlines were tight, so we spent two days learning the basics of maintaining and updating their site using Adobe Dreamweaver and Photoshop.
The results were optimal—they successfully updated the site on time, using the new skills I’d taught them!
- Mid-Size Company:
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Training Project:
The design and production teams of this local newspaper called me when they needed to make the software transition from QuarkXPress to InDesign… OVERNIGHT. Friday’s paper was produced in Quark, but that Monday’s paper had to be done in InDesign. I prepared a very targeted curriculum, and spent that Saturday with the entire group.
While calming their nerves about the software transition, I taught them all the skills they’d need first thing Monday morning. Sure enough, Monday’s paper was a big success—all the production was done in InDesign, and it turned out great!