SKILLS

Design and Layout

Fluent in:

  • Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop)
  • Quark Xpress
  • Acrobat Professional

Professional experience:

  • Interior and jacket design and layout
  • Advertising design
  • Logo design
  • Illustration
  • Photo research

Editorial and Writing

Fluent in:

  • Microsoft Office Suite

Professional experience:

  • Substantive editing, copy editing, proofreading (fiction/non-fiction)
  • Maintenance of company social networking sites
  • Copywriting (advertising copy,  jacket copy, catalogue copy)
  • Journalistic contribution

Production

  • Overseeing the proofing of design and layout for print
  • Choosing of paper stock
  • Experience with quotes from printers

Other Skills

  • Representing company at trade shows, seminars and sales meetings
  • Monitoring the growth and utility of emerging technologies
  • Management and training of staff

WORK EXPERIENCE

Dundurn Press Marketing Designer

Education Today Magazine Designer

Napoleon & Company Publishing Book Designer

The Otesha Project Copy Editor

On the Danforth Magazine Contributor

Designer Freelance

Illustrator Freelance

EDUCATION

Centennial College Book and Magazine Publishing ’08

Queen’s University BA (Honours): English Language and Literature ’07