Annex Business Media

Art Director 2010 – Present (10 years)

My role is to create digital and print media which includes:

• Print Magazines/ Digital Magazines

• Pamplets

• Print ads / web ads

• eBlasts / leaderboards/ Big boxes 

• Facebook/Twitter/Linkedin/ headers

 

For the following Publications

• MRO Canada

• Contractor Advantage Magazine

• Canadian Contractor

• OHS Canada 

• Onsite, Oralhealth Labs

• Canadian Mining Journal

• Design Engineering

• Ept Canada

• Process West

• IPPT Canada

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Melbourne Studios (Turks and Caicos Islands Caribbean)

Assistant Art Director, October 2007 - March 2008

• Duties included managing the Weekend Magazine account which was a 40 page weekly publication illustrating the life and times of Turks and Caicos Islands.

• Created the entire layout of the magazine, using indesign illustrator and photoshop. Colour corrected imagery for use within the magazine.

• Liaison with the multiple editors and photographers for content within the magazine.

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BMO Bank of Montreal Nesbitt Burns

Assistant Art Director, August 2005 - April 2007

• Designed and maintained marketing sales materials
for 1,200 Investment Advisors across Canada. As well
as developing internal marketing collateral for
BMO Bank of Montreal Nesbitt Burns.

• Initiating the task of refreshing the catalogue of available templates for the Investment Advisors. A task which had not been updated since 2002. This task included the design of well over 75 concepts in, posters, advertisements,newsletters, invites and various other requested projects.

• Worked with marketing coordinators on solutions to individual clients needs.• Developed and enforced higher brand standards related to marketing material created by BMO Bank of Montreal. Keeping a detailed eye on continuity and quality of all investment advisors projects.

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Canadian Tire Corporation

Layout Artist, October 2004-August 2005

• Developed mini-seasonal catalogues which included layouts within theHockey Book, Trucks and Towing Book, Hunting, and the Summer Guide.Also designed multiple pages within the 2005 Canadian Tire catalogue.

• Created various ads for the special projects division, as well as creatingmultiple page retail flyers for Grand Openings and weekly sales flyers.

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​​Transcontinental Media

Canadian Living Magazine
Graphic Designer/ Production
Art Assistant July 2002 - August 2004

• Designed page layouts throughout the magazine such as Family Briefs, WellBeing, In the Kitchen, Smart Solutions, well as various community storieswhich occurred in every monthly issue.

• Maintained the layout production aspects of the magazine. Collecting pagesfor output and working with transcontinental production team to produce themagazine every month.

• Setting up and directing photo shoots. With photographers throughout Toronto.• Worked with professional illustrators to create images for use in layouts.