Excellent public relations
and communications experience
Excellent lay-out and
design skills, graphic abilities, and creative illustration in various media
Project coordination
and data management experience
Advanced oral and visual
presentation skills
Web-site design and management,
text and photo editing
Illustration, photography,
lighting and animation ability
Maya Unlimited 4.0, Windows
2000, Adobe Photoshop 7.0 and Illustrator 5.5+ (PC and Mac), Quark Xpress
5 (PC and Mac), Macromedia Dreamweaver MX, Raisers Edge 5 & 7
Excellent English language
writing and research ability; Intermediate French oral and written language
skills
Sense of humour
Experience
July 2003 November 11, 2003, Communications Team and Candidate Handler The Campaign to Elect Adam Giambrone Municipal Councillor Ward 18, Toronto
Core member of the campaign
communication team involved in design, lay-out and proofing of campaign literature;
daily debriefing meeting
Answering of constituency
concerns and correspondence by phone, email and letter
Door-to-door canvass
both representing and with the Candidate throughout the Ward as well as phone-polling
Attending campaign and
media functions with the Candidate; keeping the Candidate briefed and on schedule
for events
Fundraising
Office administration
and volunteer co-ordination when necessary
December 2002 present & 1998 2001(part-time permanent) Site-Sales Representative
2001- present (part-time permanent) Site-Sales Representative and Data Entry Clerk Royal Ontario Museum, Membership
Front-line membership
recruitment and sales
Generating excitement
and enthusiasm for the ROM
Promoting the value of
ROM membership
Working with cash, credit
cards, debit cards, and cheques
Employing the Ticketing
system of ticketing
Providing public information
about the ROM, other places of interest, and greater Toronto area
Data-entry and pre-processing
of memberships using The Raisers Edge software
Customer service and
editing as needed
Independent work and
team responsibilities
May 11 - Aug. 24, 1999 -- May 25- Aug. 28, 1998 (full-time), Compliance Promotion
Assistant Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources - Enforcement Branch
Co-ordinated Marketing and Compliance Education Projects that included:
Event planning for trade
and outdoor shows; display design; print production and scheduling
Produced, wrote text,
and designed layout for brochures
Worked with the Communications
Services Branch design team preparing traveling displays
Designed 2000, 2001,
2002 visual identities for the Fish and Wildlife Guardian programme
Created a database of
all North American Enforcement Agencies
Developed an extensive
survey of North American Natural Resource Enforcement Agencies
Conducted the survey
interviews and compiled the data
Freelance November 2002 Visual and written communications for Adam Giambrone, pres.
Federal NDP
Graphic art/design for
presidential campaign including logo, fliers, pamphlets, buttons, etc.
Graphic design for municipal
campaign and Davenport Municipal Association
Communication consultation;
Newsletter editor
Fundraising
2002 Revelations,
an independent film production
Lead storyboard artist,
concept art, as well as some CG image work
October 2002 Royal
Ontario Museum, New Media, for the Institute of Contemporary Culture
Communication consultation
and contract freelance web design for the ICC web site
2001 2002 The MUD
Companion, Independent computer game hobby magazine
Contributing author of
set features and opinion pieces
January 2002 - Post-graduate
certification in Maya 4.0, Digital Media Centre, Seneca College
1996 2001- Honours
BA in Fine Art History, English and History, University of Toronto
Interests
Fine arts; antiques; museum-hopping; English literature; computer animation; film;
video games; photography; web design; paleontology; music; writing; horseback
riding; Internet; creating science-fiction and fantasy art; theatre; hiking and
canoeing; reading; travel and laughter.