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Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

• Served as a Regional Marketing Specialist for the transit, transportation and pavement management groups of Stantec in Ontario. This involved:
• Proposal writing, strategy, and development for a variety of services and business sectors.
• Preparing thoughtful, high-impact, and engaging pursuit and promotional materials that highlight Stantec’s depth of experience, expertise, and creativity.
• Working closely with our technical staff and leadership to create compelling messages that convey Stantec's strengths.
• Working with key business development leaders to coordinate strategic materials and other communications in alignment with the Stantec brand.
• Coordinating conferences and tradeshows, community engagement, advertising, and general collateral and communications development.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Plans and creates user guides for various computer programs and applications using Adobe InDesign, Photoshop and other tools.
• Evaluates and updates existing guides to reflect software updates.
• Processes involve careful consideration of common software functions and uses to ensure content is relevant and guide is user friendly.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Writes technology and engineering news for a leading industry website.
• Writes sponsored content pieces highlighting a particular product or company

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• In this role I provided business development support across Canada for new opportunities via the production of persuasive proposal outputs for the provision of recruitment services for senior executives in leading.
• Conducting deep and thorough examinations of the proposal terms of reference and all available information regarding the organization, the role, and any available intelligence on the outgoing executive, their reason.
• Consulting with highly experienced firm partners on how best to execute on research findings.
• Drafting new content, including specific responses, case studies, covering letters and templates.

Mississauga

• At GardaWorld I oversaw the proposal and technical writing activities of the Central and Atlantic Canada Regions (including Manitoba, Ontario and the Atlantic Provinces). I regularly worked with opportunities valued up.
• Consulting with subject matter experts, general managers and vice presidents to coordinate the technical aspects of security-related responses to RFP questions.
• Developing timelines for the completion of proposal documents and managing the submission of input from required team members by setting internal deadlines.
• Drafting all new content and curating a library of vetted responses.Additionally, I worked closely with the marketing department at GardaWorld’s head office in Montreal. My responsibilities included the following:
• Being the ambassador for a company-wide rebranding in my region, ensuring that all public-facing documents adhered to brand standards. This was a particular challenge in Ontario, where two other companies had recently.
• Performing copy edits of new marketing material produced at head office.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Freelance Copywriter, Foresters, Toronto 2014
• Rewrote sections of the Foresters website to reflect new product offerings.
• Composed social media posts highlighting the advantages of various insurance products.
• Developed banner advertisements for new insurance products.
• Wrote creative copy for email promotions.
• Wrote informative articles for distribution to sales associates.

Kitchener, Canada Area

• Performed freelance copyediting for the Marketing and Communications team in in the Group Benefits and Retirement Solutions Division.
• Edited and proofread PowerPoint presentations, proposals, emails, promotional materials and other documents to ensure accuracy, consistency and clarity.
• Coordinated with project stakeholders to ensure the message and strategic purpose of a given communications piece was properly served.
• Developed emails and letters for distribution to benefits recipients.
• Ensured materials were accessible and appropriate for a given audience.

Acton, ON

• Contracted to write proposals to secure contracts for a construction project management firm.
• Read RFP (Request for Proposal) documents to understand technical and managerial requirements of the RFP.
• Wrote new copy, including team bios, CVs and responses to technical questions.
• Coordinated with project management team to develop proactive text that accurately described Design Connection’s experience and abilities.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Wrote copy for company specializing in brand management of financial advisors.
• Used client interviews, surveys and other information to produce brochures, website copy and brand stories.
• Edited and proofread the work of other writers.
• Developed new project format in consultation with client.

Waterloo, Ontario

• Responsible for planning stimulating exercises to reinforce lecture material for 2 sections of 20 students every week in undergraduate literature courses.
• Graded all assignments and examinations for these students, providing detailed commentary and suggestions for improvement.
• Held weekly office hours to provide further help or clarification where needed and to consult with students over course-related concerns.
• Aided the professor in the acquisition of course material.

Master Of Arts (M.A.), English

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), English And Cultural Studies

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Philosophy

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