Majored in Graphic Design at the University of Manitoba and experience in Book Building from Lifetouch.
Ability to adapt, with interdepartmental experience and eagerness to learn various software.
Critical thinking and ability to work under pressure, such as switching strategies last minute to meet deadlines.
Excellent communication skills and maintaining a positive attitude when faced with challenges.
Leadership skills, ensuring the well-being of fellow co-workers, taking initiative by anticipating workload ahead of work assignment.
Passion
Thriving in a creative environment, surrounded by like-minded individuals. Bringing ideas to life and taking opportunities to share them with the world.
Created cohesive design layouts, unifying each individual yearbook. Updated yearbooks according to client feedback while preserving design integrity, leading to approval.
Ensured each book design created the desire to increase a school’s final order quantity, through patience and creating a good relationship with the school personnel.
Communicated effectively with designers via Teams, tracked yearbooks in a shared Excel spreadsheet to occasionally help fellow designers with their yearbook(s).
Shuffled between books daily, prioritizing according to urgency and content availability.
External Data Cleaning (EDT)
Lifetouch Canada | Aug - Oct 2023
Cleaned and manipulated data through Excel, in order to prepare functional class lists for school photographers to use in Canada and the United States.
Processed 28+ files of various types daily to meet end-of-season goals, each logged on a shared spreadsheet for an organized tracking system.
School Photographer
Lifetouch Canada | Aug - Dec 2022
Worked closely with supervisors and fellow photographers to finish Picture Day on time. Maintained a positive attitude with school staff and students for enjoyable photography sessions.
Acted as Crew Chief, leading varying crews daily at job sites. Tracked inventory before and after sessions, reported to the office for job preps and portrait submissions.
Education
Bachelor of Fine Arts - Graphic Design
University of Manitoba | Sept 2018 - June 2022
Majored in Graphic Design where I learned to be proficient with the Adobe Creative Suite: Photoshop, InDesign, Premiere Pro, and Illustrator.
