resume | russell millett

russell millett

experience

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.

education

International Academy of Design - Toronto ON

Diploma, Computer Graphics (Honours graduate)

York University - Toronto ON

Degree, Bachelor of Arts