Summary
- Featured as one of Edmonton’s “Sizzling 20 under 30” (Edmontonians Magazine.)
- Recipient of an “Award of Distinction” from the Alberta Chamber of Commerce.
- Proven leadership abilities with successful entrepreneurial experiences.
- Technical and design skills that transfer well into an administrative or office environment. In-depth experience with Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
Education
- MacEwan College – Bachelor of Applied International Business and Supply Chain Management (3rd year.)
Other Experience
- Executive Chair: Centre for Inquiry Alberta - Edmonton
- See projects on home page for other active engagements.
Work Experience
Note: Company names and dates made generic for privacy
- Self Employed: Freelance Graphic Designer and Web Application Developer (since 2001)
- Self-owned business that deals in the hosting and design aspects of website development. In peek periods the company has taken on up to 3 staff members to assist in operations and project development.
- Involves bookkeeping, customer service, maintaining services and client relations, marketing and opening/closing sales. At times varies as a full time or part time operation.
- Web Application Programmer: A Real Estate Web Services Company
- Development in specialized web projects created in PHP and Ruby on Rails.
- Manager: Franchise Location of a popular National Restaurant Chain
- Ensuring that day‐to‐day operations are ran smoothly between the restaurant, lounge, kitchen and delivery: staff oversight, motivation and customer satisfaction.
- Responsibilities included staff scheduling, overseeing employee files, new hire interviews, training, and end‐of‐day cash outs/deposits.
- #1 ranked location in Western Canada (3 nationally.)
- Edmonton Account Manager: A National Marketing Company
- Responsible for the overall success of the Edmonton campaign, which had a budget of more than $500,000 per year.
- Hired and provided orientation/training to promotional representatives and team leaders. Scheduling of 20-40 shifts per day.
- Oversaw team building, leadership and disciplinary action.
- Local contact and coordination with client (account management.)
- Special events materials transport - set up, tear down, storage.
- Daily reporting of campaign’s successes.
- Payroll; distribution and processing daily sign-in sheets.
- Administrative and Training: Large Oil Company
- Provided updates and standardization to Process/Producedure documents involved with plants affected by a major expansion project.
- Organized and delivered training of workflow efficiency techniques within Microsoft Word. The two-part hands-on seminar was developed as a self-initiative. Handouts, presentation support materials,, and feedback systems were also designed.
- Server: Various Restaurants
- Training of new servers
- Top volume/ Top ranked locations of national chains
- Responsible for helping set up the new mobile POS system for processing debits.
- Regular opening an closing duties, which involved taking a leadership role in staff floor planning, end-of-shift staff cuts, and delegation of extra side duties.
- Marketing and Strategic Planning: Janitorial and Facility Service Company (with Retail Store)
- Brought in to re-organize and re-brand the organization, while also providing administrative and operational support. Prepared the retail store for re-opening.
- Developed a new corporate banner, service brands, and logos.
- Senior Web Designer: U.S. Based Web Services Company
- Designed or oversaw all web site development (including internal promotions.)
- Helped with day-to-day operations of an internet-based hosting, domain registration and resale company. Responsible for all Canadian accounts.