Skills
Over the years I have gained experience in creating corporate identities, annual reports, magazine/newspaper advertising, billboards, brochures and editorial layouts and have won awards for magazine and website design. I continually research the latest techniques in web/frontend design – particularly css, javascript/jquery and UX (user experience).
- InDesign
- Photoshop
- Illustrator
- Dreamweaver
- Acrobat Distiller/PDF
- Quark Xpress
- Freehand
- Coda
- X/HTML/CSS
- Javascript/Jquery
- PHP
- Flash/Actionscript
- Powerpoint
- OS X
- Windows
- Ubuntu/GNU Linux
Education
Red River College
- Years 1992-1994
- Program Advertising Art
- Major Advertising and Publication Design (Graduated)
University of Manitoba
- Years 1987-1991
- Program General Science
- Major Computer Science
- Minor Math and Astronomy
Work Experience
Direct Focus Marketing Communications Inc.
- Years Active 2005-Present
- Location Winnipeg, MB
- Position Senior Graphic Designer
Work Highlights
- MTS: Quarterly design concepts for in-store displays, posters, direction and storyboards for in-store video, various POP, van decals
- Safeway Canada: Charity campaign in-store display concepts and designs, posters, POP, kiosk animations
- Return on Performance: Editorial design and cover designs, corporate identity, art direction
- Investors Group: Website design for online stationery e-store
- Ski Racing Canada: Identity, editorial design and cover designs for SRC Magazine
- Asthma Allergy Centre: Rebranding, art direction and designs, character concept redesign art direction (Allie the Alligator), various signage
- Wallace International: Corporate Identity, logo, stationery
- Canola Canada: Editorial designs and cover designs for Canola Digest Magazine (CAMA award winner)
- Payworks: Directmail concepts and designs, art direction for 3D art
- Neil Bardal: Think Outside the Box, design
M2 Communications inc.
- Years Active 1994-1997, 1999-2004
- Location Winnipeg, MB
- Position Senior Graphic Designer
Work Highlights
- What! A Magazine: Editorial and cover designs, production
- What Magazine: Corporate identity rebrand, editorial and cover designs, production, website concept, design
- What's His Magazine: Art direction, identity, editorial design and cover design, production, website design, frontend coding
- What's Hers Magazine: Editorial design and cover design, production, website concept, design, frontend coding
- University of Lethbridge: Conceived puzzle for a contest to win a computer science scholarship - mentions in New Scientist and Arstechnica, website design (Signature award winner) and actionscripting, poster and ads
- Manitoba OEM: Flash/Actionscript kiosk, magazine design
- M2 Communications: Flash/Actionscript website
- Kidsworld Magazine: Editorial and cover design, production, website concept, design, frontend coding
- Agribusiness Magazine: Editorial design, production
- Savour Magazine: Identity, editorial design and cover design, production
- Manitoba Calling Magazine: Editorial design, production
Gray Advertising
- Years Active 1997-1998
- Location Winnipeg, MB
- Position Art Director
Work Highlights
- Muddy Waters Smokehouse: Art direction for identity
- Octoberfest: Rebrand, newspaper ad designs
- Kildonan Park: Billboard and newspaper designs
- Misericordia Hospital: Annual Report design
- Wow! Hospitality: Magazine ads and airport signage for Old Spaghetti Factory, Pasta La Vista, Celebrations, Green Gates
- Gray Advertising: Rebrand
Canadian Forces Base, CFTMPC
- Active March and July 1994
- Location Winnipeg, MB
- Position Graphic Designer
Work
- Computer and software installation
- Production work on military manuals
- Paste-up
Digital Pictureworks
- Active October 1993 and February 1994
- Location Winnipeg, MB
- Position Student Work Experience
Work
- Sesame Street: Co-animated 3D short
- Winnipeg Real Estate News: Storyboards for animated TV commercial