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Company: Ferro & Company
Title: Graphic Artist
Timeframe: January 2012 – February 2012
Role: Supported in maintaining Ferro’s brand for recruiting events and in house learning and materials. Assisted the Document Management team with Binding Materials.
Skills Used: Adobe Creative Suite: Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, Acrobat; Spiral and Comb Binding, Microsoft Office: PowerPoint, Word, Excel.
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Company: Help Desk Technology International Corporation - HelpSTAR
Title: Graphic and Rich Media Designer
Timeframe: August 2009 – December 2011
Role: Sole Graphic Designer performing a Generalist Role. I was initially responsible for the creation of brochures and maintaining the HelpSTAR website. Since then I have taken on a full redesign of the website, and have been involved in the interface and icon design of the software. A few of the major projects I have been involved include: Designing Large Posters for use at a Trade Show, PowerPoint and Flash Presentations that are used at Training Seminars and Product Demos, Designing the End User and SharePoint Portals as well as the Support Rep Mobile Portal, Editing Client Testimonial Videos, Creating Feature Demo Animations, Print Collateral, and Landing Pages.
Skills Used: XHTML; CSS; JavaScript; Adobe Creative Suite: Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Flash, Premiere, After Effects, and Soundbooth; Microsoft Visual Studio, Telerik, Microsoft PowerPoint and Silverlight.
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Company: Metroland West, Digital Media Group
Title: Junior Production Assistant
Timeframe: March 2009 – August 2009
Role: Web Design. I worked with 3 other Production Designers maintaining multiple microsites, for Metroland’s Specialty Magazines and Shows, with use of a few variations of Content Management Systems. Used a variety of Survey tools to create and publish surveys to the microsites. My main job was to take layouts and content those had been created in Photoshop or Word and turn them into HTML Newsletters to be sent with Lyris.
Skills Used: XHTML; CSS; and Adobe Creative Suite: Dreamweaver, Photoshop.
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Company: Metroland North Media Group, Bracebridge Examiner
Title: Graphic Designer
Timeframe: September 2008 – March 2009
Role: Creating ads for the Examiner, Weekender, Muskokan and Muskoka Properties Newspapers as well as the Local Magazines. I also did page layout for the Muskoka Properties Publication.
Skills Used: Adobe Creative Suite: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign; Corel Draw and Quark Express.
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Company: Metroland North Media Group, Bracebridge Examiner
Title: Production Designer
Timeframe: May 2006 – August 2006, May 2007 – August 2007, May 2008 – August 2008
Role: Creating ads for the Examiner, Weekender, Muskokan and Muskoka Properties Newspapers as well as the Local Magazines.
Skills Used: Adobe Creative Suite: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign; Corel Draw and Quark Express.