• Oversee the quoting, tracking, and awarding of over 400 pieces, which has created strong working relationships with various suppliers to the Society.• Coordinate with various content experts the updating and revising of materials that include brochures, information sheets, handbooks, promotional items, and public service announcements.• Facilitate the design of these aforementioned materials with a variety of design suppliers.• Have a contextual knowledge of all of our materials… Show more • Oversee the quoting, tracking, and awarding of over 400 pieces, which has created strong working relationships with various suppliers to the Society.• Coordinate with various content experts the updating and revising of materials that include brochures, information sheets, handbooks, promotional items, and public service announcements.• Facilitate the design of these aforementioned materials with a variety of design suppliers.• Have a contextual knowledge of all of our materials on the OMS.• Communicate updates of the ordering system every two months. Prepare sample packages for provinces and local societies of new materials every six months.• Troubleshoot customization issues and reply to questions around stock levels with Alzheimer Societies with an excellent customer service record.• Facilitate all delivery issues for Alzheimer Societies. Oversaw the implementation of obtaining courier accounts for all societies initially for Purolator and then Canpar and more recently back to Purolator.• Make mobile device friendly PDFs for the web portal of our newly revised materials.• Identify, prepare and send all graphic requests for the national office along with applicable sections of the brand guidelines for reference. Prepare similar files and reference documents for requests from the provincial and local societies for their print suppliers• Oversaw the transition from an in-house distribution to an outsourced on-line ordering system. Guaranteed distribution went from eight weeks to two weeks.• Oversaw the transition from a static print and order system to a dynamic customization ordering system. The initial stages have been automated with address block and more recently a more dynamic system has been developed in CONNX for the Walk materials. Show less

• Print materials identified by the Awareness team for the upcoming Awareness campaign. Communicate their availability. Facilitate the distribution of these materials.• Develop an evaluation to determine what was successful. Successful materials would become adopted as regular pieces to carry on our ordering system.• More recently I have been customizing hundreds of pieces of artwork for posters and PSAs for various Alzheimer societies per campaign.

I program, script, host, and produce a weekly two hour radio show every week.

• Design and produce materials for large national advertising campaigns by Sears Canada, Beaver Lumber, Independent Grocer and a variety of other clients.• Produced dylux and colour key overlay proofs for materials which would facilitate a press approval.

• Produced a monthly newsletter for members.• Produced, revised, and distributed a safe sex booklet that was distributed across the country.• Delivered services to members which included reimbursements for medications or disbursement of food or counsel on navigating the health care system.

• Coordinated the campaign that lead to the drafting and implementation of the Social Work and Social Service Work Act in Ontario

• Hire, manage, and fire all staff for the radio station• Responsible for planning and executing the collection of all revenue generating stratetgies for the station which consisted of private advertising, government grants, and a student levy. This also included the organizing and implementation of an annual one week radio-thon fundraising drive, which resulted in the most successful campaign in the station’s history.• Chief spokesperson for the radio station at board and public events

• Oversee the layout and design of a twice weekly newspaper• Train volunteers in layout and design for a tabloid newspaper• Work with the photo editor on assigning pictures for future issues of the paper• Prepare the print orders for the printing press• Oversaw the transition from flat design to desktop publishing• Trained in using a stat camera and the maintenance and cleaning of the developing chemicals