Education & Professional Experience

Prior to starting Endeavor Creative in January 2002, Taughnee worked as a freelance web & graphic designer while serving as Interactive Services Manager for Craciun Research Group, Inc (CRG Research) at their corporate headquarters in Anchorage, Alaska. Here she built and maintained the corporate website as well as numerous client extranets. While at CRG, she also gained valuable experience in user-centric design by conducting Website Usability Studies for CRG clients.

Previously, she worked as Public Relations Director for The Body Shop in Anchorage, the largest volume store in the Western Region for The Body Shop, USA.

Prior to that position, she worked in Advertising and Public Relations Account Service for Emphasis Seven Communications, Inc. in Chicago, Illinois where she contributed to numerous national and international campaigns for such clients as Komatsu, Rimsat and American Lock Company.

Taughnee graduated with distinction from Purdue University (West Lafayette, IN) with a degree in Communications and minors in Business Management and Political Science. Honors include Phi Beta Kappa and Golden Key Honor Society.

She has also taken many advanced courses and seminars in web and graphic design and continues her education both in and out of the classroom to keep pace with design trends and advanced techniques.