10+ years of design and management experience in print and digital media


[May 2012 - present]    Creative Director, Boku, San Francisco
- Hands-on direction and design of visuals, brand marketing and user-interfaces for
  leading mobile payments company
- Redesigned corporate website, introduced a responsive design; reconceived brand direction
- Updated branding for marketing collateral, presentation templates and stationery

[July 2005 - present]   Design Consultant & Art Director, Montreal & San Francisco
- Worked with various clients on print and digital design projects

[February 2002 - July 2005]   Manager, Web, Autodesk Media & Entertainment, Montreal
- Direction of all aspects (visual design, content creation and backend) of large-scale
  corporate website for industry-leading software company
- Directed two full site redesigns and oversaw migrations to new publishing platforms
  for industry-leading software company
- Managed a bilingual team of designers and programmers

[March 1999 – February 2002]   Founder & Creative Director, Blue Dot Communications, Montreal
- Founded boutique design agency specializing in cross-promotion marketing
- Lead creative and strategic direction for digital and print campaigns
- Managed multi-disciplinary team of designers, writers and programmers
- Clients include National Film Board of Canada, Intrawest Resorts and Real Estate, Michelin,
  SoftImage and Alcan Aluminum

[March 1998 - February 1999]   Multimedia designer & producer, Behaviour, Montreal
- Designed original content for Scroll, Behaviour’s award winning web magazine
- Led conceptual planning for large scale projects like Behaviour Channel and Vice magazine website
- Produced the Behaviour Communications corporate website

[September 1995 - March 1998]   Online Director, Montreal Mirror (alternative newsweekly), Montreal
- Created and designed website
- Responsible for all aspects of the site including original content development, moderating discussion boards,
  liaising with online community, graphic design, programming and weekly updates
- Designed all original site marketing programs (print and digital)
- Administrator & moderator of (now-defunct) Babylon: a community BBS largely made up of discussion boards

[October 1992 - November 1997]   Graphic Designer & Production manager, Montreal Mirror, Montreal
- Hands-on design including page layout, advertising design and cover layout
- Managed all aspects of pre-press production including a team of 6 designers
- Lead project to entirely digitize production, including devising file formats
  best suited to electronic transmission and error-free output directly to plate


1989-91 Concordia University (English Literature), Montreal, Quebec
1988-89 University of Ottawa (Communications), Ottawa, Ontario


English and French