Welcome to MaryCodd.com
I specialize in designing, developing and hosting web sites for small businesses, non-profit organizations, and individuals. I’ve provided web site design, development and consulting, e-commerce shopping carts, Flash animation, video editing, illustration and 3D animation services since 1997 through my company, Growing Minds, Inc.
I’ve been working as a designer or design director in a variety of industries since I graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1975. While I was still in school at RISD I started working part-time as a freelance designer and modelmaker of fine jewelry for Dolan & Bullock in Providence, Rhode Island. Upon graduation I found there was a demand for jewelry designers in the Providence, RI and Attleboro, MA area. Over the next four years I designed costume jewelry, fine jewelry, and merchandising materials.
In 1978 I was hired as the Design Director for the Fine Jewelry Division of Gorham Manufacturing. In 1981 when Gorham decided to close the Fine Jewelry Division and put all of their focus back on their Tabletop Business (silverware, hollowware, china and crystal) I took the opportunity to start my own design studio, CoddBarrett Associates, Inc.
Coddbarrett Associates created high resolution presentation graphics, 3D computer illustrations and animations, as well as computer generated stereoscopic multimedia productions. We established computer graphics design offices and production facilities in Providence, RI, Boston, MA, Stamford, CT, and San Francisco, CA. 
Coddbarrett Associates grew from a small design studio to a company doing 3.5 million dollars in sales, and was included on Inc. Magazine’s list of fastest growing companies for 3 consecutive years.
In addition to operating design and production facilities at Coddbarrett Associates we developed:
- The Original Bitfolio Clipart Library – a compilation of original digital artwork stored on magnetic media for use in graphics presentations and printed materials.
- SlideStop Services, Systems and Software – a slide service bureau and PC based system and software used for producing high resolution boardroom quality graphics presentations.
- TintPrep Prepress Software and Systems – a prepress system used to streamline the production of “color-cutting” in the prepress printing and publishing industry. TintPrep allowed prepress colorists to scan lineart and add color, including tints and gradations, drop in 4-color photographic continuous tone images, and produce 4-color and spot-color separations on high resolution digital imagesetters.
- ComicPrep – software similar to TintPrep developed for the comicbook industry.
In 1995 I started Growing Minds, Inc. a retail computer store specializing in educational software for use at home and in schools.
- Growing Minds researched, demonstrated and recommended educational software for families and schools, developed and taught classes for adults which included classes on word processing, desktop publishing, graphics programs, and spreadsheets for analyzing, organizing and displaying numeric data graphically, and the uses of the Internet for professional development.
- Developed and ran after-school and week-long summer classes for children using a variety of educational software for publishing stories and reports, learning about science, 3D/CAD visualization, and uses of the Internet for school research projects.
- Built new PCs, repaired and upgraded and customer’s existing PCs.
In 1997 Growing Minds, Inc. added web site design, development and hosting services for small businesses in a variety of different markets and phased out retail software and computer sales. Closing the retail store gave me time to focus on my family, earn a Master’s Degree in Educational Psychology, and stay current with the latest graphics software and web design standards.
