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California, United States

San Francisco, California, United States

Leads business development in close partnership with GDP's executive leadership, developing pitches, proposals, and defining "The New Editorial" product offerings, focused on bringing together the best of journalism, strategy, product, and design to help brands tell better stories.Facilitates weekly business development meetings and handles.

San Francisco, California, United States

Led some of the studio's largest and most complex accounts—most notably Microsoft, Sony, and Adyen—building strong relationships with senior clients and growing each account year over year. Improved internal processes and workflows for large editorial client engagements, helping to standardize and scale efforts and inform GDP's best practices.Provided new.

San Francisco Bay Area

Led editorial communications from concept through execution across IDEO's global channels. Managed internal leadership and marketers, while guiding external teams of editors, writers, designers, and illustrators through a highly iterative process, ensuring stories met brand and business priorities.Maintained global story pipeline, developed story briefs.

Toronto, Canada Area

Joined Paddy Harrington—previous Executive Creative Director at Bruce Mau Design—to grow Frontier, an independent design studio dedicated to purpose design.Led studio’s account service team, including maintaining high-level client relationships, new business development, team resourcing, and managing and training junior account staff. Managing Editor.

Toronto, Canada Area

Primary client contact on a range of projects from visual identity design, brand strategy, naming, web design, interactive exhibitions, and environmental design. Clients included visionary startups, cultural institutions, and global corporations.Responsible for building and strengthening client relationships, preparing project approaches, managing.

Toronto, Canada Area

Provided management support across a range of branding and design projects. Managed key project activities and deliverables, ensuring they were delivered on time and budget. Prepared client status reports, facilitated internal meetings, managed team calendars, and maintained organization of project files and client assets.Supported new business efforts.

Toronto, Canada Area

Editor of an award-winning digital media company (now defunct), with regular reporting on Toronto's design and tech community. Responsible for story ideation, writing, editing, multimedia editing, CMS management and social sharing. Managed the editorial calendar and contributor correspondence. Worked alongside editors that regularly contributed to Monocle.

Toronto, Canada Area

Provided editorial leadership to a 12-person masthead to produce the Summer 2011 issue of the nationally-distributed magazine examining Canadian media. Oversaw the quality of research, writing, fact-checking, copy editing, design and publishing of the magazine’s print and online content. Coordinated the team’s workflow, and collaborated with the web.

Calgary, Canada Area

Worked as a program administrator for the Faculty of Medicine’s Department of Graduate Science Education. I coordinated admission selection committees, advised students with scholarships and grant applications, and compiled data to write, edit and design a 118-page annual report for the Dean of Medicine.

Calgary, Canada Area

Assisted in researching, cataloguing and archiving donated art collections for the Museum’s Art Department. I was responsible for processing documentation for insurance and Cultural Property Status, compiling artist and collection details for the Museum’s database, and contacting artists for copyright information. I received basic training on artwork.