Sales :: Marketing :: Communications :: Movie E-Marketing :: Experience

• Highly creative yet very pragmatic – and fully bilingual - marketer, with over 20 years of int’l Marketing Communications experience with grassroots NGOs, small businesses, Marcom agencies and professionals.

• Core competencies: strategic planning, project management, online marketing, screenwriting, online editing.

• Skilled in adult education (business and technical subjects), and managing multicultural teams.

A C C O M P L I S H M E N T S

• Marketing Communications (2009)
  Information Officer for the USAID MarChE project, Port au Prince, Haiti. I supported 3 executive officers, 4 market chain managers, 4 regional coordinators and 3 support staff in their internal and external communications: research, writing, editing, translation, graphic design and publishing for banners, signs, factsheets, brochures, newsletters, travel reports and websites.

• Management (2007):
  I led the West Kootenays French Association during their latest reorganization and helped deliver 2 key outdoor events and AGM, restructure its IT systems, publish its newsletter and relaunch its website, mobile library service and day camp, with 2 summer students, 3 Katimavik interns and volunteers.

• Internet Marketing (1997 - 2007):
  Nominated, Inspiration 2004 Entrepreneur of the Year Awards Gala Showcase.

• Filmmaking / Video Editing (2002 – 2007):
  13 shorts produced/written/directed/cast/directed/FCP edited.

• Online Mlovie Marketing (2006):
  Researched and wrote an online marketing manual for indie movie producers.

• Screenwriting (2002 – 2007):
  3 spec feature scripts,
  2 completed short scripts,
  1st paid assignment.
  

• Writing (1982 - 2000):
  14 short stories published,
  5 Aurora nominations,
  Imagine and Solaris SF short story awards.

• Project Management (2002):
  Member of the initial team that planned the online community and learning tool for the 2,000+ population of Self Employment graduates in the Vancouver Lower Mainland.

• HR Re-Emergence (2002 – 2007):
  Curriculum developer, grunt and Shaman for 6 Legacy Discovery Weekend men’s initiations;
  Graduate and active member of many Sterling Men's Weekends, Landmark Education workshops, New Frontiers/YMAW events, and Co_Conselling (Fundamentals, United against Racism, People of Color support Groups and Black Liberation and Community Development workshops.
  Osho Zen and New Orleans Voodoo tarot decks reader.

E D U C A T I O N

• Screenwriting; Final Cut Pro; online editing; filmmaking; Movie E-Marketing; Re-emergence       Ongoing

• Screenwriting for Film and TV, Vancouver Film School, Intake #1, Vancouver, BC       1999

• Advertising Certificate (Creative), UDM, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec 1984

• Bachelor of Commerce, UQAM, Université du Québec à Montréal, Quebec       1979 – 1982

W O R K   E X P E R I E N C E :: H I G H L I G H T S

• President, Synchronium Movie E-Marketing Consulting Group, Vancouver, BC.      1997 – 2007
  Strategic planning, accounts solicitation, market research, competitive intelligence, project management, advertising, trade shows, networking, presentations, accounting, human resources, online marketing, training, website design etc.
  Clients include Coaching and Leadership Int’l, Langara College/EASE SE, Toward Excellence SE, North Shore Cont. Ed. SE, Paul Mitchnick CSC, Nurture with Nature, Aroga Marketing Group, Metro Training Institute, Freedom Scientific, Bedazzled Pics, New City Films, Active Holistic Health, PMP Campus etc.
  

• Sales & Marketing Manager, Interactive Cafe/Bradbury Equities International, Vancouver BC.       1996
  Strategic planning; market research; competitive intelligence; business plan writing; investor presentations; staff recruiting; client solicitations; account management.
  

• National Corporate Head Writer, Sunrider International Canada, Port Coquitlam, BC.       1995
  Duties: planning for monthly newsletters, quarterly magazine, product brochures, corporate news and distributor information; writing, editing and translation; supervision of Writer and Graphic Artist.
  

• Bilingual Sales Representative, First Memorial Funeral Services, Vancouver, BC.       1994
  Pre-Arrangement Sales Division Market research; sales; customer service; writing translation; presentations.

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