*Highlights of Qualifications:

Skills summary:
Design of magazines, brochures, newsletters, business cards, calendars,
posters, advertisements, web sites, package graphics, and corporate
identities; creative writing, photography, editing, layout, and typesetting

Publications:
"Visions and ReVisions" Published 1997
"The Care She Needs" Published 1998
"Bitter, Sweet & Storm" Published 2003

*Software and Equipment Expertise:

*Career Development:

Oshawa Public Libraries, 2005-Present
Customer and Circulation Services; approach customers, offer assistance and suggestions utilizing the Reader’s Advisory service; general knowledge of popular items; assist customers in use of online catalogue and computers; cashier; weed, shelf read, sort, shelve, and reshelve library material according to library guidelines; assist Associate with CNIB catalogue development; assist other staff and departments as needed including Reserves, Reader’s Advisory genre meetings, and Graphics.

Chapters, 2004-2005
Customer service concentrating in Social Science, Computers, and Graphic Design; general subject knowledge pertaining to popular and customer demands; approached customers and offered assistance and suggestions; assisted customers in use of in store catalogue and purchasing through store intranet; cashier; sorting, shelving, and reshelving books according to store guidelines; magazine and newspaper receiving, inventory, and placement

The Wine Region of Colio Estate, 2004-2005
Customer service; basic wine knowledge as well as pairings of specific vintages with foods; cashier; completed “The Wine Regions of Ontario Introductory Course for Ontario Wines”; received a Certificate of Merit from the Wine Council of Ontario

Black Phoenix Designs, 2002-Present
Brand identity; web site development and maintenance; design of promotional
products to be sold through site; create custom greeting cards, advertisements
and brochures; stock photography of customers and employees in work environment; rework old ideas into new marketing campaigns

Clients include: Oshawa Public Library, Oshawa, Ontario
Fireborn Swords, Bewdley, Ontario
HB2K Roofing and Siding, Peterborough, Ontario
St. John’s Lutheran Church, Jacksonville, Florida

Websites include:
www.blackphoenixdesigns.com
www.frickaseed.com
www.stjohnsjaxfl.org
www.firebornswords.com

Dixie Web Graphics, New Orleans, 2000-2002
Responsible for updating and outputting customer files to film; scanning images; proofing negatives; correct customer files as needed; write postscript files;
impose layouts; output film. Designed creative advertisements, magazine layouts
and covers as needed under strict deadline compliance; produced colour proofs
for clients; quality control of product while printing. Aided in the cross-training
of new employees as needed pertaining to software applications and hardware upgrades.

*Memberships:
Digital Eve - Toronto
National Association of Photoshop Professionals