Career Objectives

Position:

• Senior Creative for a West Coast interactive Marketing Communications agency.

Responsibilities:

• Create, write and edit Content - print & digital - to support marketing initiatives.
• Lead and manage Creatives across timelines and projects.

Accounts

• Magazines, classifieds, direct mail, sales, collaterals , music videos, direct mail, banner ad, web ,
• Books, graphic novels, catalogs, podcasts, websites, webstreams

Experience :: Summary

• Sales and Marketing: 23 years.
  • Employers: communication agencies, consulting firms, small businesses, NGOs and cultural organizations in Haiti, France and Canada (Montreal and Vancouver.)
• Adult Education: 7 years.
  • Clients: graduates of the Langara EASE, Toward Excellence and North Shore Cont. Ed. Self Employment Programs. Subjects: Time Management, Strategic Marketing, Online Search Techniques, Internet Marketing.
• Business Administration: 9 years.
  • President, Synchronium Internet Marketing Consulting Group. Nominated for the Inspiration 2004 Entrepreneur of the Year Awards Gala and Business Showcase.

Achievements

Self- Employment Programs Web Site, 1997 - 2006, Vancouver, BC

• EASE SE Program graduate, intake #7. 
• EASE Board Member.
• Member of the initial EASE team that planned, the online community and business/learning tool for the 2,000+ population of SE graduates in the Lower Mainland.

Writing, 1982 – 2002

• 14 short stories published, 5 Aurora nominations, Imagine and Solaris SF short story awards.

Screenwriting 2002 - 2006

• 12 shorts movies - 2 contest entries - produced, written, directed, casted, directed and FCP edited.

Filmmaking, 2002 - 2006

• 3 completed feature scripts, 2 completed shorts.

 

Education

• Screenwriting for Film and TV             
  • Vancouver Film School, Intake #1                                                         1999
• Advertising Certificate (Creative)          
  • UDM, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec                                1984
• Bachelor of Commerce                        
  • UQAM, Université du Québec à Montréal, Quebec               1979 –1982

Experience :: Internet  Marketing :: 1997 - 2006

President  ::  Synchronium Internet Marketing Consulting Group

• Clients
  • Langara, EASE , Toward Excellence, North Shore Cont. Ed., Nurture with Nature,  Aroga Marketing Group, Metro Training Institute, Massive Scale, Freedom Scientific, Phoenix Consultants etc.
• Projects
• Strategic Planning, Stakeholders Mapping, 12 Months Action Plan
• Industry Overview, Competitive Intelligence, Market Research
• Website Planning, Branding Strategy, Interface Design
• Content Strategies, Content Creation, Content Localization
• Community Strategies, Mailing Lists Management, Media Relations
• SEO Planning, Metatags Optimization, Search Engines Submission
• Commerce Strategies, Sales Funnel , Catalog Publishing
• Email Marketing, Reciprocal  Links, Affiliate Programs.

Experience :: Sales & Marketing Communications :: 1982 - 2006

Marketing Manager  ::  Interactive Cafe/Bradbury Equities International, 1996, Vancouver BC

• Strategic planning; market research; competitive intelligence; business plan writing; investor presentations; staff recruiting; client solicitations; project management.

Head Writer  ::  Sunrider International Canada, 1995, Port Coquitlam, BC 

• Duties included: planning for monthly newsletters, quarterly magazine, product brochures, corporate news and distributor information; writing, editing and translation; supervision of Writer Assistant and Graphic Artist.

Sales Representative ::  First Memorial Funeral Services, 1994 , Vancouver, BC

• Funeral Pre-Arrangements & Cemetery Property Counsellor for the Pre-Arrangement Sales Division.
• Market research; sales; customer service; writing translation; presentations.

Sales Management :: Altec Design Group, 1993, Langley BC

• Duties included: market research, competitive intelligence; sales materials design; leads generation and sales.

Executive Assistant :: ADM*Pragma, 1989 – 1992, Montreal, QC.

• Clients included Videotron, Upjohn Pharmaceuticals, Boehringer Mannheim, Caisses Desjardins etc.
• Duties included: market research; competitive intelligence; set up and management of the Reference centre; writing and editing; presentations; Macintosh network maintenance and user training.

Junior Writer :: Publi-Cité Communications, 1987 – 1988, Montreal, QC

• I helped reposition the Culinar/Eddie Smith line of pie fillings in the Quebec market, with a 8% sales increase within 6 months.
• Creative strategy: TV cooking contest with mother-daughter teams.