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Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Toronto, Canada Area

Design projects such as packaging, website and logo development, advertisements, illustration, business cards, letterheads, pamphlets, postcards, stickers, posters, t-shirts, as well as production design.

Brampton, Ontario

As a member of the JCS Creative Services team we are responsible for designing packaging, point of purchase displays, information guides, advertising, product photography and marketing collateral in print and digital forms. We maintain standards and expertise of strength, unity and consistency within our brands. We aim to draw the consumer to our products using a message of quality and clarity of our brand identity.

Oakville, Ontario

Graphic Design, Web Design, Advertising and Marketing. Designing and maintaining unified Branding and Visual Identity Programs, Photo Retouching, Magazine Layout (a head designer for Mississauga Life magazine), developing Information Packages (Booklets, Brochures, Banners, Posters, Trade Show Marketing Materials) for both the private and public sector such as the University of East London and the Government of Alberta. Working along side the creative director and marketing departments. Responsible for prepress file set-ups, proof approvals and client communications.

Toronto, Ontario

Graphic Design, Prepress, Production Design and Manufacturing (display systems, posters, business cards, vinyl decals, specialized UV ink large format printing, etc). In charge of Digital and Large Format Printing including: Operation, Maintenance, Inventory, Assistant to the company president.Prepress: Preflight, working with ICC profiles, file proofing/retouching, typesetting, separation for plates and digital gloss + white, trapping, mass production set-ups for in-house and out-sourced printing, letterpress (including emboss, die cut set-ups), booklet imposition, digital contour cutting.

Toronto, Ontario

Graphic Design, Production Design and Manufacturing, Digital and Large Format Printing including Operational Maintenance, Inventory, Sales (Account Management). Coordinating incoming and outgoing jobs using the FileMaker Pro database system.Tasks included:- separations for multi-color, CMYK, halftone, supported white and single colour silk-screening- file preparations for other types of printing common in promotional production design- banner assembly, vinyl pre-masking and application, t-shirt vinyl and heat transfers, website updating- shipping and receiving, returns, ordering from suppliers, customer sales

Simcoe, Ontario

Newspaper paginator in a fast-paced newsroom environment.Tasks included:Digital photo editing and file scanning, graphic treatments, pagination, printing proofs and correcting edited copy, archiving published news content and photos, keeping the entertainment section up to date with daily content.

Hamilton, Ontario

Contracted as a graphic designer to work with a team of designers, writers, editors and computer programmers to create and promote websites. Websites include Monkeybiz.ca, Careerstudio.ca and Skateforum.ca.Gained additional experience in:- identity/brand development- print advertising (poster, bus inside panel and newspaper)- coordinating with printers, marketing team and makers of our promotional items- signage (including the signage for CCMA)- capturing film footage and digital video editing

Bachelor Of Design Honours Degree, Graphic Design

York University/Sheridan College joint program in Graphic Design: Studied branding and identity development, typography, motion graphics.

Certificate, Art Fundamentals

Explored the fundamentals of fine art, illustration, screen printing, design and photography.