Michele Grondin has many years of experience developing graphics for both small businesses and Fortune 500 Companies. She has created layouts on a variety of projects, designing for final output to many types of media, including 4-color print, digital, and slides.

From 1994 through 2001, Ms. Grondin was employed as a graphic artist by Merrill Lynch. She began in the Presentation Graphics department, generating slides and documents for the Investment Banking division. The focus of the work was creating presentations for use in road-shows to create interest in investment opportunities in IPO’s and foreign countries. She was promoted to the Multimedia department, which provided more sophisticated support for the same type of projects. Much of the work there involved creating animated presentations for the Investment Banking and Recruiting divisions, some of which utilized interactivity. Additional responsibilities included designing web sites for delivery across Merrill Lynch’s intranet.

Eventually, Ms. Grondin moved into the Research Media department where she was responsible for the daily creation of 5 to 10 banners for MLX, the sole Institutional Client web site. As a telecommuter she developed a process for rapid manipulation of high impact, low bandwidth animations for associates in New York, London, Hong Kong and Tokyo.

Since 2002, Ms. Grondin has been working freelance while raising her two children. She provides graphic design services on a variety of projects for Westwood International, including speaker support documents, printed mailers, and web graphics. Additional services for Westwood and other clients include designing such projects as logos, letterhead, brochures, bookmarks and book covers, product packaging, posters and signage.