Mary Market Designs is the culmination of a lifetime career in art, education, graphic design and information technology. It simply started when people around me saw me doing what I love to do.
Mary Market Designs maintains relationships within a network of other designers, programmers, teachers, information technologists, and other web business professionals to keep abreast of current trends in web technology.
I wear many hats. I am an artist and designer who has experienced a wide array of occupational industries. Secondly, I am an educator and strategist. As an educator, I seek to help people help themselves through inspiration and vision. As a strategist, I use a broad understanding of how the creative process works in industry and business application.
I create businsess solutions in a variety of occupations such as commercial printing and publishing (The Barclay Press, Chehalem Printing), high tech manufacturing (Credence Systems and Optimize Technologies), education (Hope Christian School, Hillsboro School District, Banks School District, Vernonia School District), office management (Fair Housing Council of Oregon) and more recently local government, preschool and church community.
I work as a graphic web and print designer in Creative Services at TriMet in Portland, Oregon. I do a variety of projects including performing web design and maintenance, print design, photography, service production, email publication, branding and promotional activity.
I developed the website for New Beginnings Christian Center in Gresham, Oregon where I built a content management system and regularly created and posted weekly videos and other media content. I also built New Beginnings Preschool website, also a CMS that is now managed by the preschool director.
I operate Mary Market Designs during my ‘off’ hours as a freelance consultant, graphic designer, and web technologist. I am always looking for new opportunities and build new relationships with clients.
I have a Masters of Education from George Fox University where I specialized in educational and business information technology. I majored in English and Education at Warner Pacific College where I received my Bachelor of Arts and teaching credentials in Language Arts. I also hold two Associate of Applied Science degrees in Vocational Education and Commercial Art from Portland Community College. I attended Mt. Hood Community College where I acquired skills in web technology and computer information science, while dabbling in a few courses in Computer Science at Portland Community College.
Print Portfolio available by request.
During the 1980's, I worked closely with the Newberg Chamber of Commerce and local businesses as a freelance artist. I did a variety of graphic endeavors including performing window dressings, window art, commercial print publications, and newspaper ads. I also created political literature for a local candidate during one campaign. During this time I also worked as a commercial artist and pre-press technician in the newspaper, print, and publishing business.
I went back to college in the 1990's to continue my design and technical education. I taught art, graphic communications, publications (yearbook and journalism), and other creative electives at the junior high and high school level for 7 years.
In 2000, I was recruited to software engineering. A parent of former students was managing a very large group of software engineers at Credence Systems Corporation. He brought me in as a software engineering technician. I built and managed the software engineering intranet during my time at Credence. I later was promoted to Project Manager for the Software Engineering Release Department. I pursued a software engineering degree until the internet and web swept me away to web design and information technology. My technical background is very useful in web development.