2005-present: Freelance

Design and Illustration

2003-2005: MARCON-DDM

Producer
  • Managed the websites of the Canadian Ski Marathon, Bell Canada Ovation Awards, Canbras Communications Corp., Novamerican Steel and four Imperial Tobacco sites
  • Produced online Annual Reports
    (Alcan, CGI, Canbras Communications Corp.)
  • Responsible for client liaison, budgets and invoicing
  • Assisted with webcasts
  • Onsite Producer during events

1998-2003: Stylus Strategic Communications
Producer

  • Producer for numerous websites, online Annual Reports
  • Responsible for client liaison, budgets and invoicing
  • Assisted with PowerPoint presentations, often onsite for cueing or support

1996-1998: O’Keefe Printing Limited
Design Support Coordinator

  • In August, 1996 Softimage underwent a reorganization, and my position was outsourced to O’Keefe Printing Limited. While employed by O’Keefe, I continued to work at Softimage to manage the production of all their products’ documentation, including the design of the Digital Studio documentation on the Windows NT platform.

1993-1996: SOFTIMAGE Inc.
Design Support Coordinator (May 1995)
Graphic Designer – Documentation (1993)

  • Reporting to the Manager of User Education, I was responsible for a team of two Graphic Designers and a Technical Support Specialist
  • Created new design for all Softimage documentation (22 books totaling over 5,000 pages)
  • Designed the Softimage newsletter “Words from the Wizard”
  • Managed the production for these products, communicating with the various printers for reprints to maintain sufficient inventory

1992-1993: Les maïtres typographes Zibra
Designer/Typesetter

  • Gained valuable experience, enhancing my layout and typesetting skills, while continuing with my freelance work. It was during this time that I worked for Softimage Inc. as a freelance designer to revise the Creative Environment v2.6 User’s Guide

1977-1992: Freelance – PAV Graphics Inc.
Graphic Designer/Illustrator

  • Graphic design, typesetting, and all aspects of print production for assorted booklets, folders, video jackets and posters
  • 2D and 3D animation
  • Audio-visual productions, from simple “speaker support” slides to complex shows for Corporate Annual meetings

1971-1977: International Cinemedia Centre Limited
Graphic Designer/Illustrator

  • Design and illustration of educational filmstrips
  • Storyboarding, graphic design, cartoon illustration and typesetting
  • Design, layout and artwork for labels, pamphlets, posters
  • Constructed props and assisted with studio photography
  • 25-second cel animation for a film on the Rideau Canal