Coroflot

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TECHNICAL SKILLS
Mac / PC / Quark XPress / Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat) / Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)

SECURITY CLEARANCE
Enhanced Reliability Clearance
Expires 2019-10-28

PROFESSIONAL HISTORY

PATTI MORAN GRAPHIC DESIGN
Ottawa, ON 2009 to present
Owner
Operating as a sole proprietor offering graphic design, desktop publishing and other services for small to medium-sized local businesses. Customers include: publishing company, authors, association, contractors, retail and B2B service.

OTTAWA BUSINESS JOURNAL / TRANSCONTINENTAL MEDIA
Ottawa, ON 2000 to 2009
Production Manager
Responsible for managing staff of five including conducting performance reviews, coaching and troubleshooting as well as managing design and production of five weekly papers, magazines, sales collateral and more.
• Recognized for high quality of work when requested by company VPs to undertake redesign of 75 weekly and 10 daily newspapers to meet needs of readers and newspaper teams across Quebec, Ontario, Atlantic Canada and Saskatchewan.
• Ensured wide acceptance and success of redesign by writing and designing instruction manual for use by editors and page designers.
• Spearheaded relaunch by developing and delivering one-day seminar on revamped newspaper design as well as by traveling to each newspaper office to assist in relaunch and provide personal coaching to individual staff members.
• Improved overall quality of visual communications by nurturing, encouraging and making use of special talents of team members.
• Minimized turnover through steady management and effective leadership; maintaining stable core staff during seven-year management term in addition to growing staff by two.
• Increased productivity by introducing a range of process improvements including:
--Reducing interruptions to graphic designers by overhauling in / out system between sales and production.
--Implementing PDF workflow for all production projects.
--Adjusting schedules to ensure manpower is in place when most needed.
--Provided budget stability by maintaining same number of hours per week per publication despite doubling of workload.


THE PRESCOTT JOURNAL
Prescott, ON 1998 to 1999
Graphic Designer
Responsible for design and production of newspaper advertisements and for layout of editorial content.

PEAK PUBLISHING / GULF ISLANDS DRIFTWOOD
Powell River / Salt Spring Island, BC 1992 to 1998
Production Manager
Responsible for managing up to five production staff and for design and production of newspaper ads and pages in addition to offering graphic design services which improved customer service and increased through-the-door traffic to the office.

THE SQUAMISH CHIEF
Squamish, BC 1991 to 1992
Production Assistant (Part-time position)
Responsible for producing advertising layouts for community newspaper as well as for designing and assembling editorial content.

NORTH VANCOUVER OUTDOOR SCHOOL
Squamish, BC 1991 to 1992
Bighouse Secretary (Part-time position)
Responsible for serving as support person for Coast Salish cultural immersion program.

CHATELAINE MAGAZINE
Toronto, ON 1986 to 1988, 1990
Art Assistant
Responsible for layout and design of editorial content of one of Canada’s most recognized women’s magazines.

ADCOM ADVERTISING
Oakville, ON 1989
Graphic Designer
Responsible for design and production of newspaper advertisements for local residential building companies.

HAYWARD DESIGNS
Oakville, ON 1984 to 1986
Graphic Designer
Responsible for in-house design and typesetting, reception duties and light bookkeeping.

OAKVILLE SHOPPING NEWS
Oakville, ON 1983 to 1984
Production Artist
Responsible for design and production of newspaper advertisements, typesetting and operation of large copy camera.

CANADIAN OXYGEN LTD.
Etobicoke, ON 1980 to 1983
Graphic Designer
Responsible for designing promotional material for corporate and branch offices.

EDUCATION & TRAINING
-- Graphic Design Diploma – Sheridan College, Oakville, ON 1980
- Mission Leadership Management Training – Transcontinental Publishing, Toronto, ON 2004 to 2007
-- PHIL Adult Coaching Course – Transcontinental Publishing, Toronto, ON 2005