Samantha George

Experience

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  WMUR - Channel 9 News Station

  Jan 2007 - Sept 2007

  Intern/Freelancer

  Worked with news professionals to learn camera placement & movement, live directing techniques, timing strategies, teleprompter, video playback, editing, & special programs.

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  Manchester High School Central

  Aug 2010 - Dec 2010

  Graphic Design Teaching Intern

  Mentored by a master graphic designer to create a Graphic Design curriculum that utilized a series of projects that seamlessly worked toward a final goal to demonstrate student’s growth & performance, as well as address the needs of ELL students, IEP & 504 students. Submitted official grades for students with self-made rubrics that adhered to school standards, competencies, & mission. Responsible for student success & community approval

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  Boys & Girls Clubs of America

  Oct 2010 - Oct 2011

  Art Director

  Successfully designed & actuated an art program that achieved & excelled all Boys & Girls Club standards. Marketed events, participated in attaining grants, & promoted curriculum.

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  Deerfiled Community School

  Jan 2011 - May 2011

  Art Education K-8 Teaching Intern

  Collaborated with mentors & supervisors to design art lessons for grades K-8 in correlation to school standards, state standards, mission statement, and philosophy.Incorporated multiple media sources into lessons in unique ways to heighten student interest.Differentiated teaching styles for single students & overall class dynamics.

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  Massachusetts Department of Public Health

  Nov 2011 - Jan 2013

  Graphic/Web Designer & Frontend Developer

  Office of the Massachsuetts Secretary of the Commonwealth's Graphic and Web designer. Primary coder and designer for a 2,000+ page government website redesign with an measured amount of about 4.1 million page hits within first week release (16.4 million during the 2012 presidential election week). Works to consistently update and maintain this website on a regular basis. Works with other divisions and directors to develop web/print material for the public. Creates and develop print work, pamphlets, posters, and promotional work to be widely used by the Massachusetts political offices and the greater public. Show less

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  Boston Financial Data Services

  Jan 2013 - Apr 2015

  Web UI Developer

  Frontend developer for secure access mutual fund management web applications for notable financial companies. Collaborated with clients to deliver needs in compliance with the product and became a usability architect/consultant for front-facing client meetings. Upheld modern standards within the application, including HTML5, css3, progressive enhancement techniques, responsive design and development, and cross browser compatibility. Participates in extensive usability, Q/A, and UAT testing and able to return to the code and make necessary improvements. Show less

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  Fidelity Investments

  Apr 2015 - Jul 2016

  UX Developer

  Worked on creating a ground-up custom system of reusable components based on the B.E.M. methodology to establish a company-wide css/html framework. Contributed extensively to teaching documentation to assist in tutoring other developers about the framework as well as advocate continued learning with hands-on assistance. Used this framework to build extensive prototypes of legacy product within ember.js. Utilized git for file sharing.

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  CVS Health

  Mar 2017 - now

  Frontend Developer