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Resume
Education
1994 - 1997
Graduated with honors in a three year Graphic Design diploma course at the New Brunswick College of Craft and Design.
1990 - 1994
Attended four years of university at the University of New Brunswick, Saint John campus, as a part time student in a BA program.
Employment
1997 to Present – Xerox Canada Ltd.
Senior Graphic Designer, contracted to Aliant.
My duties include:
Team lead for our design team of three designers with the Aliant contract. I work directly with the Aliant Marketing team on many different types of projects, like bill inserts, direct mail pieces, direct marketing material, posters for the Aliant and Downeast stores, and magazine and newspaper ads.
I am the ‘go to person’ for any Aliant branding questions, as I work directly with the Aliant brand team on any changes to the brand that are made.I work directly with the Aliant Sponsorship team on all the events that they sponsor (i.e. TD Canada Trust Atlantic Jazz Festival, Harvest Jazz and Blues, Festival of Lights, Halifax International Buskers Festival, and many Trade Shows.) My job includes conception, design and production of documents, customer relations, scheduling jobs for production.
Employment Cont’d.
1997 - 1997 – Walsh Graphic Design, Toronto, Ontario.
Eight week work co-op for school. My main focus was learning about printing, production, and running a graphic design company.
My duties included:
Creative concepts, design and layout of documents.
Skills overview
Graphic Development Software
Adobe Creative Suite, QuarkXPress, and Darwin (Variable data program).
Web Development and Multi Media Software
Adobe Fireworks Adobe Flash, Adobe Dreamweaver, Final Cut Pro, Fetch and Transmit.
Office Applications
MircoSoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Entourage/Outlook.
Operating Systems
MacOS, and Windows
PrePress and Production
Fluent with all Xerox RIPs, X-Rite, and Digipath. Trained on the Heidleberg Quickmaster two colour offset press.
Interests
Recreational
I enjoy gardening, walks, drawing, RC car racing, and playing my xbox 360.
Sports
I play wallyball (form of volleyball), football, ultimate frisbee, water ski, downhill ski and mountain bike.
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