Gretchen Throop Williams, the principal of Dragonfly Design, started her graphics career creating high-end PowerPoint presentations. The work was done mostly in Photoshop (which she has actively been working in since Version 4 in 1996) and imported into PowerPoint for high-end presentations intended for the CEOs and executive staff of some of the Bay Area's largest companies. For the first 3 years she worked primarily with PS Productions and their main client, Clorox. After about two years of active work on presentation support work, she began working with other production companies in the Bay Area, starting with Jack Morton Worldwide, and then branching out to some of the Bay Area's top production companies (InVision, Dogtown, Good Seed, TenCue, Bodie Group, Group X, etc.). This work brought her all over the world for on-site production support.

In 1999 Gretchen began working in Macromedia Flash and HTML, allowing her to branch out into website design as well as create animations for "walk-ins" at corporate events. Gretchen learned to code in ActionScripting (programming language for Flash), HTML, JavaScript and CSS. When the dot-com bubble burst in the Bay Area in 2000 she focused primarily on Flash. She trained at Center for Electronic Art (CEA) for Flash and Illustrator over the next two years and took classes with Russell Chun (author of the Visual Quckpro Guide for Flash Advanced).

Since then her career has encompassed creating graphics for everything that's viewed on the computer. She moved to Boulder, Colorado in 2003 still maintaining most of her work in the Bay Area, as well as adding new clients from the Denver area. Gretchen now specializes in bringing video and sound to the screen through Flash and HTML5 as well, creating boutique websites. She still travels all over the country to be the graphics operator and onsite Powerpoint/Keynote guru at corporate events. Her vocabulary in ActionScript has grown exponentially over the years and her abilities in Flash, Photoshop, PowerPoint, Keynote and Illustrator are solidly at master levels.

Gretchen is most often praised for: being fast and accurate, highly skilled, always finding ways to get the job done, maintaining a complete commitment to the job, and being fun to work with.

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