CURRENTLY...

Design and Illustration, Sculpting

  • Design and produce assorted marketing materials including business cards, greeting cards, invitations, brochures, price lists, presentation folders, posters, packaging, magazine ads, catalogues, installation guides, display panels, large format banners and trade show displays.

  • I also continue to create and sell my carvings in soapstone, serpentine alabaster and other soft stones.

PREVIOUSLY...

MARCON-DDM
Producer

  • Managed the websites of the Canadian Ski Marathon, Bell Canada Ovation Awards, Canbras Communications Corp., Novamerican Steel and four Imperial Tobacco sites.
  • Produced online Annual Reports.
    (Alcan, CGI, Canbras Communications Corp.
  • Responsible for client liaison, budgets and invoicing.
  • Assisted with webcasts.
  • Onsite Producer during events.

Stylus Strategic Communications
Producer

  • Producer for numerous websites, online Annual Reports.
  • Responsible for client liaison, budgets and invoicing.
  • Assisted with PowerPoint presentations, often onsite for cueing or support.

SOFTIMAGE Inc.
Design Support Coordinator
Graphic Designer – Documentation

  • Reporting to the Manager of User Education, I was responsible for a team of two Graphic Designers and a Technical Support Specialist.
  • Created new design for all Softimage documentation (22 books totaling over 5,000 pages).
  • Designed the Softimage newsletter “Words from the Wizard”.
  • Managed the production for these products, communicating with the various printers for reprints to maintain sufficient inventory.

Les maïtres typographes Zibra
Designer/Typesetter

  • Gained valuable experience, enhancing my layout and typesetting skills, while continuing with my freelance work. It was during this time that I worked for Softimage Inc. as a freelance designer to revise the Creative Environment v2.6 User’s Guide.