about cynthia J. kwitchoff "cindy"
I am a full-time Freelance Graphics, Print & Website Designer
I have a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Art History degree with a minor in Art from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1988. While there, I designed graphics and print materials for the organizations I was involved in. I also worked on a newspaper on campus and in my hometown during summers in the editorial and layout section.
After graduating from college, I came to Washington, DC and worked for a year at a public relations firm on K Street where I was tapped, as a side job, to create branding for the company, print materials, and take photographs.
For the following ten years, I was a CIA staff employee working as a Security Officer and in counterintelligence. Once again, I ended up (as a side duty) creating a variety of graphics and print materials, newsletters, flyers, PowerPoint slides, photography and more for the offices I worked in.
In one of my jobs (Program Manager in the Counterintelligence Center), many of these side graphics duties took more of a forefront as I ran what was essentially a very large marketing, advertising, communications and educational campaign designed to increase the counterintelligence awareness of the entire CIA workforce. To do this, I created and/or managed an internal website, a TV series, commercials, multiple advanced training courses, special auditorium lectures and events, a video documentary and a professional survey, all the while utilizing my creativity and graphics skills.
I then worked as a CIA and DOD contractor for eleven years at a counterintelligence and counterterrorism training company. I was the Director of Productions where, on a daily basis, I used all my graphics, print, website, photography, video and marketing skills along with doing in-depth research on counterintelligence and counterterrorism topics.
As a volunteer for outside organizations, I offered my abilities to design and create newsletters (including writing their content), invitations, advertisements, event programs, brochures, directories and more.
In September 2011, I began working full-time as a freelance website, print and graphic designer, also working on video.
I am available for freelance, contract, gig, part-time work remotely—whenever you need a creative service done, contact me. I’m your on-call design department.
I’m highly experienced and disciplined in working from home, which I’ve done since 2000. I have a fully-equipped, advanced home office in the Tysons Corner, Virigina area (near Washington, DC).
To see my resume with more details, click on the button.
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My Mission
My mission is to understand your business or organization and make the message you want to convey to the world both effective and attention-getting.
I can also handle many important things for you — like your website, branding, print materials, social media/email marketing, video, photography, creative brainstorming and much more — so you can focus on your main work and leave the rest to me.
Who Am I
I am creative, artistic, efficient, organized, a very hard worker, independent, responsible, a self-starter, self-disciplined and self-directed. I’m a deep thinker, an idea generator, a reader, and self-taught. Integrity, honor, honesty and doing the right thing are very important to me. I like things to make sense and work right. I’m honest about my strengths and weaknesses and will tell you whether I have the abilities to do something.
I love to see the ‘before’ and ‘after’ of things — I have a passion for taking things that don’t look good or work right and make them better.
I’m a behind-the-scenes person who likes to support, enhance and promote the client to make them look and be the best.
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"If you have the right people, you don't need to spend a lot of time 'motivating' or 'managing' them. They'll be productively neurotic, self-motivated and self-disciplined, compulsively driven to do the best they can because it's simply part of their DNA."
- Jim Collins, author of "Good to Great" and "Built to Last"
My Skills
I have worked with Adobe and Microsoft software since the mid-1990s.
I’ve worked on websites since 2000, and WordPress since 2011.
Adobe Creative Suite
- Adobe Photoshop
- Adobe InDesign
- Adobe Illustrator
- Adobe Premiere Pro
- Adobe Acrobat Pro
- Adobe Lightroom
Website Software
- WordPress
Microsoft Office
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Outlook
- Office 365 Administration
Client Testimonials
![Dr. David Charney](https://cjkcreative.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/NOIR-1.jpg)
![Sebastian Gorka, PhD](https://cjkcreative.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/TGB-1.jpg)
![Edward Mickolus, PhD](https://cjkcreative.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/EM-1.jpg)
![Jay Grusin](https://cjkcreative.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/jay-grusin.jpg)
![Raymond Batvinis, PhD](https://cjkcreative.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/FBIS-1.jpg)
![James Williamson](https://cjkcreative.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/jamie-williamson.jpg)
![J. Marc Wheat](https://cjkcreative.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/GF-1.jpg)
![Kris and John Walker](https://cjkcreative.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/WTR-1.jpg)
![Ray Semko](https://cjkcreative.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/DICE-1.jpg)
D*I*C*E security awareness briefings
![John Guandolo](https://cjkcreative.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/UTT-1.jpg)
former USMC, fbi
![Gayle Trotter](https://cjkcreative.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/GT-1B.jpg)
![Stephen Coughlin, Esq.](https://cjkcreative.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/UA-1.jpg)
former us army, dod/jcs
![Katie Gorka](https://cjkcreative.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/TKG-KGorka.jpg)
![Stephen Chanko](https://cjkcreative.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/WFS-1.jpg)
![Tera Dahl](https://cjkcreative.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/COGS-1.jpg)
![Tom Mauriello](https://cjkcreative.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/tom-mauriello.jpg)
ret. nsa