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Burnaby, Bc, Ca

Burnaby, Bc

Experience in corporate, agency and freelance environments, bringing a wealth of graphic design and pre-press knowledge, along with a passion for educating the next generation into print and web. Creating content that’s seen and used by people around the world — drives to continually push the boundaries and explore new pathways.• Transformed various clients’ visions into concepts and designs for print (rack cards, brochures, annual reports, catalogues, posters, Powerpoint presentations,… Show more Experience in corporate, agency and freelance environments, bringing a wealth of graphic design and pre-press knowledge, along with a passion for educating the next generation into print and web. Creating content that’s seen and used by people around the world — drives to continually push the boundaries and explore new pathways.• Transformed various clients’ visions into concepts and designs for print (rack cards, brochures, annual reports, catalogues, posters, Powerpoint presentations, image manipulation) and web media (optimize and digitize images, create banner ads, content and websites)• Presents design options to the customer, and makes recommendations regarding the most effective and efficient design with the intended message and meeting project timelines, budget, print/web and available resources• Personalized software training for various corporate clients and post-secondary institutions • Develop and instruct courses, workshops and training seminars which include creating proposals, course/workshop outlines, objectives, and learning materials• Create online videos for a YouTube channel and write tutorials, inspiration, and posts for learners to follow along on personal blog• Design and modify curriculum to meet learner needs and create assessment tools to evaluate progress Show less

Burnaby, Bc

Canada’s leading performance media and marketing solutions company. Yellow Pages brings consumers and businesses together locally through its network of print, digital and mobile properties. • As a member of the Graphics team, contributed to increasing YP sales by designing and delivering, from concept to completion, high-quality graphics and websites for advertisers and prominent online retailers. • Responsible for rescuing and completing a project where the client was on the… Show more Canada’s leading performance media and marketing solutions company. Yellow Pages brings consumers and businesses together locally through its network of print, digital and mobile properties. • As a member of the Graphics team, contributed to increasing YP sales by designing and delivering, from concept to completion, high-quality graphics and websites for advertisers and prominent online retailers. • Responsible for rescuing and completing a project where the client was on the verge of cancelingtheir advertising with Yellow Pages. Coordinate with customers to gather information requirements. Used retention strategies to prevent cancellation and increase repeat sales for the following years.• Ensured a high level of client satisfaction by assessing client needs and producing a consistent, high-quality print ad that reflected the client’s brand, and complied with YP creation and content standards.• Consistently met strict production deadlines which required building productive relationships and collaborating with both internal and external partners, including sales and pagination. Show less

Burnaby, Bc

A Canadian local search company, providing services in the online, print and mobile markets. Supervised a team of 13 designers, 5 workflow coordinators and 2 outsource vendors in creating work dockets, design concepts, layouts, and final art. Specialized knowledge of methods and techniques of graphic design and layout, often requiring higher-level executive and client interaction skills. Performed backup roles for Graphic Manager, Workflow, Nationals, Emails and Mobile Sites.•… Show more A Canadian local search company, providing services in the online, print and mobile markets. Supervised a team of 13 designers, 5 workflow coordinators and 2 outsource vendors in creating work dockets, design concepts, layouts, and final art. Specialized knowledge of methods and techniques of graphic design and layout, often requiring higher-level executive and client interaction skills. Performed backup roles for Graphic Manager, Workflow, Nationals, Emails and Mobile Sites.• Developed and maintained training materials to ensure quality control and continually identified innovative & value-added activities that improved, enhanced or simplified Graphics and Workflow processes. This reduced errors and increased turn-around time for all the teams. • Conducted needs analysis, design, develop, implement and evaluate soft skills and technical training programs within the department• Responsible for training all the new team members in my department on design and technical workflow processes and procedures • Negotiated photo resource stock images for 20 user subscription• Engaged and involved with on-going testing with Bermuda, a paperless Workflow Management tool. This reduced designer turn-around time to complete work assignments and enabled tracking of KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) for designers and workflow teams.• Managed resources within tight deadlines by tracking, monitoring, and reporting on individual and team throughput. Motivated and supported team efforts to successfully meet deadlines and achieve team goals. Show less

Burnaby, Bc

Canada's second-largest directory information services provider. With approximately 118 differentdirectory titles, Superpages offered print and Web-based advertising solutions for small- and medium-sized businesses in Canada.• As a member of the Spec team, responsible for creating and delivering, from concept to completion of spec and sold designs for advertisers.• Performed back-up roles for Senior Designer. • Ensured a high level of client satisfaction by assessing client… Show more Canada's second-largest directory information services provider. With approximately 118 differentdirectory titles, Superpages offered print and Web-based advertising solutions for small- and medium-sized businesses in Canada.• As a member of the Spec team, responsible for creating and delivering, from concept to completion of spec and sold designs for advertisers.• Performed back-up roles for Senior Designer. • Ensured a high level of client satisfaction by assessing client needs and producing a consistent, high quality print ad that reflected the client’s brand, and complied with Superpages quality assurance standards. Show less

Richmond, Bc

Rhino Print Solutions is a privately held company based in Richmond, BC, providing commercial printing solutions to the marketing and advertising in Western Canada. Rhino Print Solutions and WYSIWYG Pre-Press are pleased to announce a strategic alliance designed to deliver pre-press and print solutions through a seamless production environment in 2001.• Received and ensured files supplied by ad agencies, print brokers and designers artwork files are trouble-free for file processing… Show more Rhino Print Solutions is a privately held company based in Richmond, BC, providing commercial printing solutions to the marketing and advertising in Western Canada. Rhino Print Solutions and WYSIWYG Pre-Press are pleased to announce a strategic alliance designed to deliver pre-press and print solutions through a seamless production environment in 2001.• Received and ensured files supplied by ad agencies, print brokers and designers artwork files are trouble-free for file processing. Able to perfectly prepare artwork files for film negatives.• Efficiently create optimal process-specific colour-separations and proofs (bluelines, matchprints, laminates, overlays & digital) identical to the final product without interrupting press productivity.• As a pre-press operator, our systems had to calibrated twice daily to ensure accuracy from file delivery to contract colour proofs to film-imaging devices or to the digital press. The final result is predictable and accurate colour in the printed products. Responsible for the evening calibration. Show less

Whistler, Bc

Sea to Sky Voice was a community newspaper dedicated to exploring local issues. The magazine catered to the information needs to businesses and residents along the Sea to Sky Corridor that included North and West Vancouver to Whistler and Pemberton, BC.• As a graphic designer on the production team, responsible for creating and designing display ads from concepts to completion for a weekly magazine distributed every Friday.• Scanned and colour corrected photos, pictures, slides, and… Show more Sea to Sky Voice was a community newspaper dedicated to exploring local issues. The magazine catered to the information needs to businesses and residents along the Sea to Sky Corridor that included North and West Vancouver to Whistler and Pemberton, BC.• As a graphic designer on the production team, responsible for creating and designing display ads from concepts to completion for a weekly magazine distributed every Friday.• Scanned and colour corrected photos, pictures, slides, and film negatives• Completed pagination and editorial layouts and prepared files for electronic pre-press Show less

Online/Elearning Instruction Certificate

Bc Provincial Instructor Diploma & Train The Trainer Certificate

Web Marketing Certificate & Web Publisher (Design) Certificate

Electronic Publishing And Design Certificate

Marketing Management Diploma