Work Experience

04/03 - 05/03: Marketing Coordinator for Lemonade Communications, Inc.

- Submitted sites to search engines and ensured that they were optimized for the search engine spiders. Responsible for researching placement of sites under specified keywords. Added keyword rich content for the users of the websites and for the spiders to pick up on. Edited most copy for three websites, due to strong English language skills.

02/02 - 09/02: Web designer/coder for Cyber Marketing Services, Inc.

- Responsible for writing and coding sports-related HTML newsletters on a weekly basis, to be sent out to over 100,000 site members, added site promotions, coded affiliate website, coded templates for affiliate sites, designed and coded company-owned websites, optimized all images used on sites for the web using Adobe ImageReady with Adobe Photoshop 6.0. Was also responsible for the front-end of a banking interface that over 300 company-owned websites used.

09/97 - 09/01: Chatting Online Guide at About.com, Inc.

- Wrote over 100 chat-related articles over the four years, sent biweekly newsletters to over 11,000 subscribers, found quality chat-related links, moderated the three busiest chatrooms on the About network, managed a team of up to ten chatroom assistants, replied to user emails daily, optimized pages for search engines, consistently ranked within the top 10% of all sites on the network from approximately June of 1998 to September of 2001.

Extra-Curricular Activities

2006-Present: Member of the Montreal Gamecode Project.
2006-Present: Guild Officer/Guild Master of a World of WarCraft guild on the Eldre'Thalas (US) server.
2004-2006: English Language Administrator at Hattrick.org.
2002-Present: Annual participant in National Novel Writing Month.
2002-Present: Provider of the official NaNoWriMo chatrooms.
2001-Present: Webmaster at GoodChatting.com.
2001-Present: Network administrator of GoodChatting.com IRC server.
2001-Present: Freelance chat server configuration/setup.
1996-Present: Freelance web design.
1995-1996: System Operator (SysOp) of Dawson College BBS.
1994-1996: Member of CIXS, Dawson College Radio news team.
1994-1995: Co-System Operator (Co-SysOp) of Dawson College BBS.
1993-1994: Head Ambassador, Miss Edgar's and Miss Cramp's School.

Technologies/Software

HTML
CSS
Experience with JavaScript and PHP
Adobe PhotoShop 6/7/ImageReady/CS
Adobe Illustrator 10
HomeSite v4/4.5/5
Dreamweaver v4/MX
Quark Xpress Passport 4.1/5
Flash MX, with use of Actionscript
UnrealIRCD, Epona/Anope on a Linux system
Windows 98/Me/2000/XP

Other Skills

Building/moderating online communities.
Ability to set up and run an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) server with services on a unix-based system.
At ease with most popular message forum host-it-yourself software (phpBB, UBB, vBulletin, Invision).
23 years of experience with online communication.
Excellent communicator.
Ability to manage a website with several hundred pages.
Ability to type approximately 80 words per minute.

Education

January, 2004-Present: Concordia University, BA Major Sociology (in progress, current cumulative GPA: 3.20)
July, 2003: Flash MX Level II, Concordia University
April-June, 2003: Flash MX Level I, Concordia University
March, 2003: Certificate in Graphics Applications in Desktop Publishing, Concordia University
1994-1996: Dawson College, Social Science Program
1983-1994: Miss Edgar's and Miss Cramp's School, DES received June 1994

Languages

English - written, read and spoken fluently.
French - written, read and spoken proficiently.
Italian - written, read and spoken at a conversational level.
(5 classes of Italian study at Concordia University)

Awards

1996: Dawson College Media Council Club Award, awarded to Dawson College BBS as the best Media Council Club in 1995-1996, over both student radio stations, the student newspaper and several other clubs.

References

- available upon request.