Yanick Bédard

Current

• Operations Manager - Interactive at Sid Lee

Past

• Strategist and new technology advisor at SID LEE (aka Diesel Marketing)
• IT Consultant at Tourisme Montreal
• Information Architect - Usability Expert at Diesel Marketing

• Ad Writer at Tam-Tam/TBWA

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Education

• http://www.personalMBA.com
• Avid Composer
• Université de Montréal

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Connections

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Industry

Marketing and Advertising

Websites

• My Blog
• Twitter Feed

Yanick Bédard’s Summary

Strategist and new technology advisor on major accounts such as: adidas, Garnier, RedBull, Tourisme Montréal, Cirque du Soleil, MGM, SAQ, SCQ.

In charge of the PMO, the Information Architects Team and the Content Managers Team.

Tactical Strategist for all the SID LEE major accounts.

Yanick Bédard’s Specialties:

Information architecture, Tactical strategy, Project management, management, Business analysis, Content management

Yanick Bédard’s Experience

• Operations Manager - Interactive

  Sid Lee

  (Privately Held; Marketing and Advertising industry)

  January 2009 — Present (1 year )

  Operations Manager and Main Tactical Strategist at SID LEE regarding all the interactive projects.
  
  In charge of the PMO, the Information Architect team and the content managers.

• Strategist and new technology advisor

  SID LEE (aka Diesel Marketing)

  (Privately Held; Marketing and Advertising industry)

  January 2006 — December 2008 (3 years )

  I am the senior group account manager in the interactive field. I am also the team leader of the Information Architect department and the business analysis department.
  
  I am responsible of the scope of all the new technology projects, the user experience and usability, the business analysis and strategy of the Interactive Sid Lee projects.
  
  I also give seminar on the topic of Information Architecture at UQAM and social networks at Infopresse.

• IT Consultant

  Tourisme Montreal

  (Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Hospitality industry)

  April 2001 — December 2005 (4 years 9 months)

  Manager of Web/IT dev and strategies.
  WebProducer.
  Manager of the portal http://www.tourisme-montreal.org and http://www.montrealcam.com

• Information Architect - Usability Expert

  Diesel Marketing

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)

  December 1999 — April 2001 (1 year 5 months)

  I was in charge of the the user experience, the usability and the content of major websites development such as Reno Dépôt (now offline), Tourisme Montréal and Cirque du Soleil.

• Ad Writer

  Tam-Tam/TBWA

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)

  August 1996 — August 1999 (3 years 1 month)

  I was a French creative copywriter responsible for national brand such as: Apple, Nissan, Infiniti and Astral.

Yanick Bédard’s Education

• http://www.personalMBA.com

  Personal MBA , Management , 2005 — 2007

  I am currently doing MyPersonalMBA at http://www.personalmba.com/.

• Avid Composer

  Certified Avid Composer Specialist 1999 — 1999

• Université de Montréal

  Bachelor , Communication Marketing - Advertising , 1996 — 1998

Additional Information

Yanick Bédard’s Websites:

• My Blog
• Twitter Feed

Yanick Bédard’s Groups:

•    Canadian Web 2.0 Jobs
•    Cirque du Soleil
•    INFOPRESSE
•    FWA
•    Montreal Area Flash Developer

Yanick Bédard’s Honors:

Palmarès de la doyenne Université de Montréal, Coq, Boomerang, Caissies, Microsoft, TheFwa.com

Yanick Bédard’s Contact Settings

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