Partner and Web Designer / Graphic Designer at Spiralli Business Solutions

Niamh has over ten years experience in digital design in the U.S. and Ireland. She has an Associate of Science Degree in Business Technology from Hallmark College and a diploma in Human Resources from UCC (now classified as a lower degree).

Her specialties include Web design, graphic design, PowerPoint presentation design, print design, logo design, pdf menu system design and development. Her strengths are her organisation skills, creativity, listening ability, empathy and passion for her work.

She has extensive experience in designing web sites for a wide range of businesses, large scale conference/exhibition presentation CDs - both CD cover/inserts and the self-running electronic content, politician ad campaigns involving web, newspaper, magazine, poster and signage media, business ad campaigns, logos/branding and PowerPoint presentations. As Partner in Spiralli, in addition to her graphic design role, she takes care of the sales and administration of the business.

Previous Positions Include:

Designer, Digital Publishing at EIS Digital Publishing
Information Technology and Services industry
December 1999 – December 2001 

Trainer and supervisor of production personnel, primary client contact, technical support, design and development of products, promotional literature, demonstration media, web sites, and employee training manuals.

A typical project involved converting conference documents in Word or PowerPoint format to PDF or scanning those documents from hard copy to live text PDF - Creating a PDF menu system for accessing those documents - Creating an autorun Master CD and sending it to the replicators to be replicated into tens of thousands of Conference CDs for handing out at major financial or management conferences and exhibitions in the U.S. or Europe.

Quality Assurance and Technical Document Conversion Technician, and Department Assistant at Docucon Imaging Services Inc.
Information Technology and Services industry
March 1999 – December 1999

This was a contract position with the company that quickly became permanent. Niamh advanced through several departments (proof & edit, redlining, scanning and front end, final quality control) to the shipping and archiving department. Her duties were trainer and supervisor, server space monitoring and deletion, document conversion, final quality control, customer media preparation and creation, shipping paperwork, archiving shipments and original documents. She initiated and developed the creation of a training manual for the department. Employee of the Quarter 6/99 to 9/99.

Education:

University College Cork
Diploma, Human Resources
2002 – 2004
www.ucc.ie
Student Representative

Hallmark College
Associate of Applied Science Degree, Business Technology
1997 – 1998
Honor Graduate 4.0 GPA
www.hallmarkcollege.edu
Alpha Beta Kappa
Editor of Student's Newsletter

Interests:

Ongoing development of graphic design skills
Learning new technologies
Teaching

Groups and Associations:

Current Member and former Chairman of the North Cork Business Alliance, www.ncbanetwork.ie
Member of the Ballyhoura Enterprising Network, www.ben.ie
Member of Linkedin.com, http://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=&key=12980246&locale=en_US&trk=tab_pro
Member of Naymz.com, www.naymz.com/search/niamh/ni/chearbhaill/1794370?preview=true

Honors and Awards:

Awarded Certificate of Appreciation from the American Red Cross
Awarded Certificate of Appreciation from the Ramstein U.S. Air Force Base Elementary School