On top of more than 18+ years of design experience, Dawn is well versed in technology strategy issues and brings a well-rounded view of user interface and design management to her work. She has extensive experience with start-ups and in design consulting and previously owned her own design studio, Marlow & I Advertising Design in Charleston, South Carolina. She moved to Boston, MA at the start of the Internet boom. Her start-up experience includes serving as Creative Director at Open Ratings during its launch. She managed the Open Ratings' in-house creative team, which was tasked with establishing the brand of a company that was dependent upon reputation - both its own and for the businesses in its ratings database. She oversaw soup-to-nut design, including web, physical space, visual representation of the product, advertising, trade shows, and working with the development team to transform functional specifications into successful, working models.

Prior to Open Ratings, she was the Lead Art Director for Youthstream Media Networks' acclaimed community site, mybytes.com, a personalized, full-service Internet hub for colleges and their students. As a Senior Designer at Synergy Network, Dawn helped facilitate the company's first move into designing for the web. She brought knowledge of web marketing, user interface design and training to add to the firms' service offerings.

Currently Dawn is working as a consultant focusing on matching her client's business needs with long-term marketing and design strategies. She works closely with clients throughout every phase of a project and ensures that overall business objectives are met. In addition to being a successful entrepreneur for more than ten years, she has worked with a range of established organizations which include: Black Duck Software, Inc., OATSystems, PsionUSA, Isocurve, Optaros Inc., YouthStream Media Networks, LeadAmerica, the Swiss House for Advanced Research and Education, and Dana Farber Cancer Institute.

Dawn has taught for eight years at several colleges: Emerson College, The Persons School of Marlboro College, The New England Institute of Art and the Art Institute of Denver. She taught web design at Marlboro College's Graduate program, in Emerson College's certificate program she taught Design, Information Architecture and HTML and at The New England Institute of Art she taught Information Design, Macromedia Dreamweaver, Adobe Photoshop and the final Capstone course in Web Development. While at NEiA she built upon the Web Site Development course by developing and deploying the Advanced Web Development program. Most recently, Dawn has written web development course curricula for the New England College of Business' upcoming online masters program in Digital Marketing.

She received her early formal training in graphic design by earning her B.F.A. at Savannah College of Art and Design, and built on her skills by earning an M.S. in Internet Strategy Management at The Marlboro College Graduate School. She currently resides in Denver, Colorado.