Rogers Sports & Media
Operations Specialist - Vancouver, BC
January 2022 - June 2025
Projects: Audio Entertainment Legacy Sites | Seekr
Provided operations support for 40+ legacy websites as they migrated over to the new website & app for Rogers Radio Seekr.
Worked with Developers for redevelopment and migration of various internal tools used by the legacy sites as they migrated over to Seekr.
Product Manager | Operations Support - Vancouver, BC
January 2017 - January 2022
Projects: Audio Entertainment
Assisted with operational and product support for Audio Entertainment (40+ websites).
Overseeing and managing the launch of products and feature enhancements.
Working directly with internal departments Insights, Ad Tech, to help monitor sites performance.
Provided internal operational, training support.
Dealt directly with 3rd party vendors for tools such as: SalesForce Marketing Cloud, EasyPromo, Emplifi, Text Groove etc.
Operations Support | Web Producer - Vancouver, BC
March 2011 - January 2017
Projects: Audio Entertainment, CityNews
Assisted with operational support for Audio Entertainment and CityNews (50+ websites).
Worked with teams such as IT and Product for improvements in strategy and product development.
Main liaison between the Content teams and Product teams.
Responsible for the creation and maintaining of business units for radio properties in SalesForce Marketing Cloud.
Spearheaded initiatives to simplify for newsletter deployment to multiple business units for newsletter alerts and eblasts within Exact Target.
Operational support for relaunch of WordPress sites within a React environment.
Senior Designer - Vancouver, BC
October 2008 - March 2011
Projects: Audio Entertainment, CityNews, Sportsnet
In addition to roles as Web Producer & Operations Support, helped with design for the various radio station websites.
Mashup Arts Inc
Art Director - Toronto ON
August 2008 - October 2008
Creative Lead and art direction for the redevelopment of the e-card website mashuparts.com.
Site allowed for integration of user-generated content (static, audio, video) from social media.
Additional duties included developing sites architecture, user flows and wire-frames as well as HTML and CSS development and support.
Cineplex Entertainment LLP
Senior Designer - Toronto ON
December 2007 - August 2008
Primary duties included art direction, graphic design, user flow development and creation of online brand standards for the NEW Cineplex Entertainment website which involved migration to an ASP DOT NET 2.0 environment.
Worked closely with information architects and site programmers to ensure seamless implementation of designs; developed user flows to improve site and widget usability.
Additional projects included the creation of e-mail newsletter templates, contests and promotions, and integration of a 3rd-party social media platform into the main site.
Corus Entertainment
Senior Designer - Vancouver BC, Toronto ON
September 2001 - December 2007
Responsibilities: Primary designer for new site designs for all Corus radio properties across Canada including CKNW, CFOX, Q107 and The Edge.
Additional responsibilities: Included project scheduling and project management. Hiring and training of design team; ensuring adherence to style guide.
Worked directly with Account Managers, Program, Music and News Directors in the development of online sales initiatives.
Development of website style guide, design of online contests, custom pages, microsites and banner ads.
Was the Design Lead, when all radio sites were migrated from Cold Fusion to an ASP DOT NET 2.0 environment.
For this was responsible for creation of brand style guides, site architecture, user flows, wire-frames and development of sites HTML and CSS.
Fusion Creative
Multimedia Artist - Toronto ON
1998 - 2000
Developed multimedia presentations and motion graphics for a variety of clients including Oxford Properties, TedCity, Steelcass USA, Armstrong Flooring & Ceiling, and Empori.com.
EXN (Discovery Channel)
Designer - Toronto ON
1998
Graphic design for two web sites to support on-air programming for Flight Deck and the Avro Arrow.
Flight Deck was recognized as one of the top aviation sites in North America by Rand McNally in 1999.
International Academy of Design
Instructor, Graphic Design Program - Toronto ON
1998 - 2000
Taught classes in HTML and Web Design, Premiere, After Effects and Photoshop.
International Academy of Design - Toronto ON
Diploma, Computer Graphics (Honours graduate)
York University - Toronto ON
Degree, Bachelor of Arts