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About Me - Updated 02/19/06
My name is Terry Richards. I am a 43-year-old Catholic, daily Communicant (when I can!), wife, and mother—2 great boys, ages 10 and 13. My faith is the most important aspect of my life, joined together with my family life.
My office is located at my home, where I do freelance work for my self-owned company, Two Hearts Design. My husband is now back to work so we are looking forward to and working toward an improvement in our financial situation. I pray and I ask that you, the reader, pray that we always trust in Our Lord blindly to send the work that we need to continue.
Although Two Hearts Design is a wonderful company, I find I am spending more time running the business and less time designing. And so, I am currently looking for full time employment preferably via telecommuting, but I would also be happy commuting to a local company located in Central or West Central NJ or East to East Central PA. A Catholic or Christian company would be great, but a challenging position with a company with strong Christian morals would be exciting as well.
I am very blessed that God has given me a great gift of inspiration. I truly believe, with all my heart, that I could not have designed or edited any single one of the books, covers, websites, etc. without the direct intervention of Our Lord, Jesus Christ, and His Most Holy Mother. Indeed, I could not even breathe without Them.
All praise and all thanksgiving to Our Lord, Jesus Christ. Amen.
Terry Richards
Two Hearts Design
PO Box 415
Bloomsbury, NJ 08804
(908) 319-4211
terry@twoheartsdesign.com
EMPLOYMENT:
GRAPHIC DESIGNER, 1999-Present
Two Hearts Design, www.twoheartsdesign.com
Internet-based sole proprietorship offering desktop publishing and graphic design for book,
video and audio cover design, interior book design, typesetting, scanning, optimizing images
and text, barcodes, web design, maintaining multiple clients and deadlines. Office duties
including A/P, A/R, advertising, estimating. Maintain and update computer hardware: Mac
G4, G3 iBook, HP LaserJet 4100TN, HP DeskJet 1220C, Agfa Duoscan T1200 Scanner, LaCie Electron22blueIII
Monitor, HP Copier, Iomega Zip Drive, LaCie Lightscribe DVD R/RW, Dell Dimension 4400,
Ethernet, Asante Hub, DSL internet WAN/LAN, Sharp Fax, Docuseal 1200 Laminator, Premier
Letter Folder.
COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER, 2002-2005
Franklin Township Youth Association, www.ftya.org
Jeff DeAngelis, President,
Communications Officer for local youth volunteer sports association. Responsibilities include
monthly newsletter, flyers, website design and maintenance.
WEB DESIGNER, 2001-2004
Canticle Magazine, www.canticlemagazine.com
Genevieve S. Kineke, Editor
Design and maintain website, program and design of database utilizing PHP, phpMyAdmin,
and MySQL for online article entry and viewing, create advertising banners for upcoming
events, program and maintain credit card merchant account for upcoming conference reservation
billing, direct interaction with editor, writers, and subscription office.
GRAPHIC & WEB DESIGNER, NETWORK ADMINISTRATOR, 1997-2002
101 Foundation, Inc., Washington, NJ
Dr. Rosalie A. Turton, (908) 689-8792
Multifaceted position for nonprofit organization specializing in book publishing, catalog
mail order, and pilgrimages to Catholic shrines throughout the world. Website design and
maintenance, handled all email correspondence, online orders, online catalog updates, programmed
and provided training to operate online event calendar. Designed print catalog of over
500 items, advertising flyers, magazine ads, newspaper ads, event announcements, pilgrimage
brochures, and prayer cards. Book cover design and typesetting for several books by various
authors. Customized, operated, and provided training on Pitney Bowes SmartMailer addressing
system for nonprofit bulk mailings. Hardware and software network administrator for 15
Mac and PC desktop computers via Ethernet with Asante Hub for FileMakerPro Server and FileMakerPro
database. Updated, upgraded, programmed, and customized FileMakerPro database system with
over 40,000 customers for invoices, tour reservations, special events, tape and video rental
clubs, and contributions. Off-site telephone technical support.
SKILLS:
Experience and knowledge of telecommuting
Strong knowledge in Mac OS 7.6 - 10.4.2
Strong knowledge in Windows 95 - XP
Strong knowledge of document and forms design
Efficient and creative design and typesetting
Work well under deadlines and with co-workers
Efficient hardware and software troubleshooting and problem solving skills
Able to work independently
Very detail-oriented
Strong organizational skills
Able to learn new software application skills quickly and efficiently
SOFTWARE KNOWLEDGE:
Adobe Photoshop CS
Adobe InDesign CS
Adobe Pagemaker 7.0
Adobe Acrobat 5.0
QuarkXPress
Adobe Illustrator
PHP/phpMyAdmin/MySQL
CGI/Perl
MS Word (Mac/PC)
MS Excel (Mac/PC)
Outlook Express
Safari (Mac Browser)
Internet Explorer (Mac/PC)
Omni Page Pro
Dreamweaver MX 2004
BBEdit 7.0
Eudora Pro
FileMakerPro 5.0
FileMakerPro Server
Pitney Bowes SmartMailer
Norton Utilities
Ethernet
AppleTalk
Toast Titanium 6.0
Extensis Portfolio 7.0
Agamik Barcoder
EDUCATION:
SOMERSET COUNTY COLLEGE, 1981-1983
Math, Computer Science, Unix/C
CITTONE INSTITUTE, Edison, NJ, 1985-1986
Computer Programming: Cobol, JCL, RPGII
WARREN COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE, 2002-2005
Online Courses: Web Design, Graphic Design, Continuing
MACROMEDIA.COM, 2003
Online Courses: Dreamweaver MX, PHP, Continuing