• Over 10 years experience in creative direction and copywriting
• Over 8 years experience in online usability
• Over 12 years experience in graphic / web design
• AWARD School graduate 2002
• Experience in content creation and project development from concept to finished art
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Creative thinker and effective team member

Freelance Consultant 2004 - Present
http://www.catsavard.com
Sydney, Australia

• Working on a project basis with agencies seeking assistance in all manners relating to online brand development
• Working in tandem to, and keeping company with a small, jumpy, mute canine named Bug.
• Clients include M&C Sattchi, Singleton Ogilvy, ninemsn, TBWA, Southern Cross Broadcasting, and various independents.

Creative Director, XM Expanded Media 2003 – 2004
http://www.xm-msia.com
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

• Regally throw weight around the creative department, imperiously coordinating the department's daily affairs through the employment of over-the-top, Bollywood-esque antics
• Make grand pronouncements on the copy and graphical content of our clients' online communications
• Direct and implement new processes for a team of 20 art directors, writers and web designers
• Client list includes Sony, Toyota, Maxis (Malaysian telco) and GlaxoSmithKline
• Part of pitch team responsible for winning Toyota business

Deputy Creative Director, Euro RSCG Interaction 2001 – 2003
http://www.eurorscg.com.au
Sydney, Australia

• Perform lofty task of reporting to Creative Director on department's progress
• Creative direction, art direction, copywriting and content creation, graphic design and training and mentorship of a design studio
• Client list includes Intel, Mitsubishi Australia, Sony, Philips, Suncorp, Northern Territory Tourism Commission, Kimberly-Clark, Cadbury, Dell, Monster, BMG and The Smith Family

Partner and Managing Director, Gearwerx New Media 1999 – 2001
http://www.gearwerx.com
Montreal, Canada

• As one of 3 founding partners in Gearwerx, my role included grappling with issues of creative direction, copywriting and content creation, graphic design, programming, new business generation, contract negotiation, staff hiring and training, client service and all manner of managerial work (we were big on multitasking)
• I negotiated the sale of the company to uPath.com in 2000, and, as part of the sale, stayed on with the company to see it through an (awkward and sometimes painful) transitional stage

Instructor, Studio XX 1997 – 1999
http://www.studioxx.org
Montreal, Canada

• As an HTML, Javascript and Flash instructor for a private college, my role involved creation of the course curriculum, writing course materials in both French and English and teaching classes of up to 15 students
• This role taught me that some of us do not have the patient demeanor required for teaching

Journalist, Hour Magazine 1995 – 2000
http://www.hour.ca
Montreal, Canada

• Contributed hoity-toity music and arts feature stories, as well as album and movie reviews
• Gossiped cattily with members of musical elite, fashion gurus, international celebrities, and the beau monde during exclusive one-on-one interviews and tetes-a-tetes

Feature Writer, The Indpendent UK 1997 – 1999
http://www.independent.co.uk
London, UK

• Operatically soliloquized on technology, online piracy and intellectual property issues through portentous lead feature articles that shook the foundations of the modern world

Private Investigator, Soly, Chabot & Ranger 1995 – 1998
Montreal, Canada

• Trained and obtained license as a professional private investigator
• Although I would have liked to go undercover to catch cheating significant others and unravel crime circles, much of my work involved research into white-collar crime. I did, however, once catch a teenager working in a convenience store pocketing the proceeds from the sale of a case of beer

• Silver, DM Creative, ADMA Awards 2004
  Silver, DM Effectiveness, ADMA Awards 2004
  ninemsn 'Virtual Life'
• Finalist, Cannes Cyber Lions 2002
  Bronze, ADMA Awards 2001
  Creative Business Idea Awards website 2001
• Bronze, ADMA Awards 2001
  Finalist, Cannes Cyber Lions 2001
  Finalist, Euro RSCG Creative Business Idea Awards 2001
  Philips 5 Minutes website

• AWARD School 2002. Sydney, Australia
• Concordia University 1998 - 1999. Montreal, Canada
  Graduated B.A. Communications and Journalism.
• City University 1996 - 1998. London, UK
  Pursued studies toward B.A. in Journalism.
• San Andreas High School 1989 - 1993. Larkspur, CA. USA

*References available upon request.
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