Objective

Well-organized and highly motivated creative professional with 15 years of design industry experience. Dynamic leader with enthusiastic personality, excellent written and oral communication skills, and natural problem-solving capabilities. Continually acknowledged for proactively spotting opportunities for improvement, tackling tough challenges, and for being highly creative, and versatile. Adept in creating and directing corporate and new business design. Especially skilled at illustration and producing original art work. Exceptional interpersonal skills with team members and clients. Accomplished at incorporating the desires of the client/employer with a superior design solution.

Related Education

General Arts and Design UCFV, 1989-1993

- Courses and seminars in communications, UCFV
- Courses and seminars in marketing, UCFV
- Macromedia and Adobe seminars

Professional Experience

Leading Edge Graphics, Signs, and Printing 1996-1998
Position: Graphic Designer

• Consulted directly with clients to establish the nature and context of designs and illustrations needed for reproduction.

• Developed marketing packages that included: full colour brochures, calendars, booklets, catalogues, posters, presentation folders, business cards, stationary, letterhead, envelopes, flyers, menus, business forms, invoices, newsletters, and art work for signage.

Western Canoeing and Kayaking (freelance position from 1997 to present)
Position: In house and freelance graphic designer

• Worked closely with the management and marketing team to develop interesting and new ideas for promoting products.

• Managed advertising accounts and ensured that all deadlines were met on time.

• Built relationships with local printers and over saw all aspects of product quality and reasonable costing.

• Prepared sketches, layouts, and all graphic elements of the products to be marketed.

• Designed full colour brochures, booklets, catalogues, posters, web graphics, and full colour ads for magazines and trade shows in the US and Canada.

• Manage and maintain product web sites.

KaVo Dental Technologies, 1999-2002
Position: In house graphic designer for international dental equipment manufacturer

• Responsible for developing the company’s online parts catalogue, managing drawing revisions in CAD both on-line and within the company intranet.

• Produced full color brochures, technical illustrations, operation manuals, procedure manuals, industrial drawings, product packaging, magazine ads, catalogues, and annual reports.

• Responsible for web site layout and graphics.

Contract and Freelance Positions

ECCO Heating and Manufacturing, Langley, BC
(contract position from Jan. 2006 to Sept. 2006)

• Responsible for design and layout of the company’s 2000+ page parts catalogue and the conversion of all Page Maker files to InDesign.

Canadian Photoscene Printing, Salmon Arm, BC
Aug. 2010 - Feb. 2011 (covering a paternity leave)

• Consulted directly with clients to establish the nature and context of designs and illustrations needed. Energetically and passionately tackled a vast array of projects for a wide range of corporate, non-profit, and small business clients.

• Produce creative and budget-friendly brochures, annual reports, postcards, invitations, marketing/advertising materials, posters, maps/charts/info-graphics, and web graphics & pages using Adobe Creative Suite, QuarkXPress, Dreamweaver and CSS.

Technical Proficiency

Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows and Mac OS

Software:

Adobe Illustrator CS5, Adobe Photoshop CS5, Adobe InDesign CS5, Microsoft Office Suite, Corel Draw and Corel Word Perfect Suite, QuarkXpress, Adobe PageMaker, Adobe Dreamweaver CS5, Adobe Acrobat Professional. Familiar with all aspects of digital/traditional printing including the use of Canon and Xerox colour copiers, fiery software, image setters, and colour separation.

Skills

Print/Layout Design • Identity and Branding • Typography • Digital Illustration • Vector Illustration • Photo-manipulation • Photo Retouching • Illustrations • Painting: Mural and Prop painting, Classic oils and acrylics • Web graphics • Trade show display design • Photography

Supporting Skills

• Presentation software • Filing and record keeping • Project management - from ideas to print
• General office administration, budget control, establish work priorities, customer service

Awards and Accomplishments

Member of the Federation of Canadian Artists
Past Member of the Mission Art Association

References available upon request.

Work Samples