Design Professional
Ontario, Canada
Design Professional
Ontario, Canada
design for web and print
art direction, design production and basic coding
(Design industry)
2000 — Present (9 years )
Freelance -- Print, Interactive and Sound Design
Interactive design skills include: Information Architecture principles, graphical design of the elements and HTML with CSS and Flash based development.
Email marketing design and development for cross browser and multiple mail-clients.
Print design skills include: Concept from creative brief, final production (including photo retouching, colour correction, and typographical elements), and pre press production.
Client List: Bassadur Applied Creativity, McMaster University, Rino Noto Photo, Brett Simms Imaging, Karen Perlmutter Photography, Mimo Music Productions, Hotel Intercontinental Toronto, Squarepeg Inc. Advertising, Aquarian Pools, Mastermind solutions, Mmarketing Inc./Sears Canada, Level Runner Films.
(Marketing and Advertising industry)
November 2004 — May 2008 (3 years 7 months)
Colour4You & Colour Tech are short and large run digital and conventional printers marketing their services toward the real estate and trade industries.
• Designed and branded marketing and promotional materials as well as packaging, sales, and trade show Items.
• Worked directly with company CSRs and their clients to create marketing support materials.
• Worked directly with designers & print brokers in all aspects of pre-press to ensure the highest quality of printed material.
(Computer Software industry)
February 2001 — December 2001 (11 months)
Book4golf.com is an internet based, real time, tee time reservation system for golfers.
• Worked directly with the Marketing and Development departments to provide both web and print content to their Canadian and American offices.
• Designed and branded marketing and promotional materials as well as packaging, sales, and trade show Items.
• Developed user GUI interfaces and web graphics.
(Computer Software industry)
February 2000 — January 2001 (1 year )
Derivion was an ASP and a developer of Electronic Bill Presentment and Payment (EBPP).
• Designed and built client product mock-ups for the sales team.
• Developed Hybrid GUIs based on existing customer interfaces crossed with Derivion's product front end.
• Created client demos and an instructional manual describing the steps in building a client demo for
use by the presentment team.
• Developed product architecture as part of the UXD team.
cert. , 3D & Art Fundimentals