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Education

  • September 2004 - May 2007 at Canadore College for a 3-year Diploma in Graphic Design.
  • September 2007 - May 2008 at Sheridan College for a 1-year Certificate in Interactive Multimedia.

Experience

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

Strengths

Software

  • Mac Environment Expert 5/5 - Mac
  • Windows Environment Expert 5/5 - Windows
  • Photoshop (up to CS5) Advanced 4/5 - Photoshop
  • Illustrator (up to CS5) Advanced 4/5 - Illustrator
  • Dreamweaver (up to CS5) Advanced 4/5 - Dreamweaver
  • InDesign (upto CS5) Intermediate 3/5 - InDesign
  • Flash (upto CS5) Intermediate 3/5 - Flash
  • Premiere (upto CS5) Novice 2/5 - Premiere
  • After Effects (upto CS5) Novice 2/5 - After Effects
  • Soundbooth (upto CS5) Intermediate 3/5 - Soundbooth
  • Acrobat 8 Advanced 4/5 - Acrobat
  • Visual Studio 2010 Intermediate 3/5 - Visual Studio
  • Axialis IconWorkshop Advanced 4/5 - IconWorkshop
  • Office Suite Intermediate 3/5 - Word, Excel, Powerpoint
  • Corel Draw Intermediate 3/5 - Corel Draw
  • Quark Express Novice 2/5 - Quark Express

Programming & Markup

  • HTML/XHTML Expert 5/5 - HTML/XHTML
  • CSS Advanced 4/5 - CSS
  • Javascript/Jquery Intermediate 3/5 - Javascript/Jquery
  • C# (ASP.net) Novice 2/5 - C#
  • ActionScript 3.0 Intermediate 3/5 - ActionScript 3.0
  • ActionScript 2.0 Novice 2/5 - ActionScript 2.0

Other

  • Telerik AJAX/ASP.net Advanced 4/5 - Telerik AJAX/ASP.net
  • Telerik Silverlight Novice 2/5 - Telerik Silverlight
  • Silverlight Novice 2/5 - Silverlight
Kilian Walker

Kilian Walker

Provisional Registered Graphic Designer

I am an In-House Graphic Designer in the General Toronto Area. I enjoy planning, organizing and designing solutions. I also really enjoy playing video games and spending time with friends and family.

When I find the time in my busy schedule I do try to keep a blog running as well as a few other social and portfolio sites.