Re: Designer | Illustrator

GENERAL EDUCATION
Emily Carr Institute of Design & Technology
   (Certificate of Fine Arts Technique)

University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine
   (MD)

University of British Columbia
   (B.Sc. 4th Year Pharmacology)

WORK AND VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE

Earthtones - Faculty of Medicine, Toronto
Co-director of the art auction that raises money for international children's health initiatives. Organizes the collection, creation, presentation and distribution of art before, at and after the event. 2007 Sept - Nov

U of T Medical Student Fashion Show - Toronto
Choreographer for "Dress 4 Success" charity show - the theme was the promotion and empowerment of female equity in the workplace. Worked with volunteer models, actors, singers, musicians, dancers and other performers as well as the staff of Drake hotel. 2007 March - May

Daffydil - University of Toronto
Designed and illustrated the poster, t-shirt, program, and DVD cover for the annual musical to fundraise for the Canadian Cancer Society. Set-up the stage lights and worked as the lighting technician for the show. 2007 Dec-Feb

Ophthalmology and Vision Science Research Lab, BC's Children's Hospital, Vancouver.
Conceptualized and created animations for psychophysical tasks used during experiments for demonstration purposes using Macromedia Flash MX. July 06 - Aug 06

Dr. Peter Centre - Downtown Eastside, Vancouver
Developed the Art as Therapy program with art and recreation therapists to provide comfort care to persons in marginalized communities living with HIV/AIDS. Assessed the needs of participants to engage them in art projects at the art studio on a weekly basis. 2005 Sept - 2006 May

Kinsmen Laboratory of Neurological Research, UBC.
Created Flash animation to demonstrate the potential of BACE2 protein as a drug target for Alzheimer's Disease. May 05 - July 05

Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, UBC, Vancouver, BC.
Designed pharmacology logo for undergraduate sweatshirt, and organized its creation and distribution. 2004 - 2005

Perspective Newspaper, UBC, Vancouver, BC
Publication Design Director (2004-2006), Assistant Publication Design Director and member of Electronic Publishing (2002-2004). Facilitated workshops on graphic illustration and publication design, organize departmental meetings, and interview new department members. 2002 fall -2006

SBN: Student Biotechnology Network, UBC, Vancouver, BC
Graphic designer for promotional posters and thank you cards for the student run and widely funded organization, aimed at increasing awareness of careers in biotechnology. 2004 - 2005

Limnor Programming Systems, Kirkland, USA
Graphic designer for website development. Created Interface, CSS style sheets and Flash animation. 2003 - 2004

AMBL: UBC Biotechnology Laboratory education facility, Vancouver, BC
Graphic Designer for the BioTeach Project. Created illustrations for review articles and teaching resources and designed components of the virtual outreach website (BioTeach). 2002 - 2003

NYAC (National Youth Advisory Council), Calgary, Alberta
Worked on creating a new webpage and discussion board for the council and designed graphics for the YouthShare, a bi-monthly newsletter of Youth Volunteer Corps, an international volunteering organization. 2002 - 2003.

SWIFT (Supporting Women in Information Technology), UBC, BC.
Worked on tutorial for VF2 (Virtual Family 2), a Java-learning program designed to promote interest in computer science. Created characters sketches and animations. Summer 2001 - Fall 2002

Yearbook Committee, University Hill Secondary, Vancouver, BC.
Layout Editor and General Planner for the 2002 school yearbook. Responsible mainly for graphics and layout, but also participated in photography. 2001 - 2002

UBC/VSB Transition Program, UBC, Vancouver, BC.
Designed logo for the Transition Program, an accelerated high school program for gifted youth. January 2001

ADDITIONAL TRAINING
Spoken Art and Creative Writing Class
Weekly workshop sessions led by writers and artists, targeting aspects of art-making and creative writing, through guest speakers, free-writes, interactive theatre, open-mics and peer-editing. Sept 2006 - present

IBM Compressed Customer Engagement Workshop, 4611 Canada Way, Burnaby.
Participated in an organized work experience in e-business innovation using web development tools such as Dreamweaver, Flash, Illustrator and Photoshop to develop website for clients. March 2002.

Friesens Yearbook, Canadian International College, North Vancouver, BC.
Participated in workshop and lectures on professional layout and design processing. Summer 2001.

University Hill Secondary School, Vancouver, Canada.
Achieved 95% for Fine Art 11, 98% for Fine Art 12, and 96% for Drafting 11. Worked with principles of design and artistic composition. In Fine Art, used various mediums, including watercolour, acrylics, pastel, pencil, and graphics software. In drafting, worked with 3D rendering programs and designing software. 2000-2002.

Private Sculpture Class, Vancouver, Canada
Used Clay and mud to create miniature sculptures and also learned about plaster and artificial gold/bronze/metal coating techniques. 1999 - 2000.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Proficient with Adobe Photoshop 5-7, and CS, Paint Shop Pro 3-7, Adobe InDesign 2.0-CS, Adobe Illustrator 9-CS, CorelDraw 10, and Macromedia Flash 4, 5 & Flash MX.

Experienced with Microsoft Word, Excel Spreadsheet and PowerPoint.

Utilizes HTML, CSS, JavaScript using notepad, Microsoft FrontPage, Firework 3, and Macromedia Dreamweaver 4-MX.