Skills

• Strong salesmanship & Client Relationship Management skills
• Fiscally responsible & experience creating budgets for small to medium sized organizations
• Experience with Adobe CS4 suite & Final Cut Pro with years of design & video editing
• Experience writing press releases & sponsorship letters for non-profit organizations
• Ability to coordinate sponsorship for events run by non-profit organizations
• Intimate knowledge of & experience with Social Media, Web 2.0, Flash, CSS, PHP & Javascript

Experience

Communications Internship @ TIFF

September 2009 - Present, Toronto, Ontario

• Documenting media coverage for the premiere North American film festival
• Maintaining media relations for TIFF's year round initiatives

Web Design @ Hamilton-Mehta Productions

August 2009 - Present, Toronto, Ontario

• Designing & developing web presence for Canadian-Indian film to be released in March
• Utilizing knowledge of HTML, CSS, PHP, Javascript and Flash to create an immersive web environment

Graphic Design @ POV Magazine

August 2009, Toronto, Ontario

• Contracted to design promotional material for documentary magazine

Multimedia Design @ Queen’s Film & Media Studies

May 2009, Kingston, Ontario

• Created Flash animations and video introductions for video lectures to be posted on iTunes U

Sponsorship Intern @ 2009 Kingston Canadian Film Festival

November 2008 - March 2009, Kingston, Ontario

• Organized sponsors for the largest Canadian Film Festival through mail campaigns & face-to-face meetings
• Assisted in welcoming industry guests & coordinating volunteers during the festival

Advertising Coordinator @ Graduate Marketing

April - May 2008, Kingston, Ontario

• Coordinated advertising for a Wipe-Away Board campaign at Queen’s University
• Dry-called various businesses & presented the campaign in a concise & convincing manner

Business Manager @ Golden Words

March 2008 - March 2009, Kingston, Ontario

• Worked with national & local businesses to gain advertising revenue for weekly humour newspaper
• Organized sponsorship for on campus events, reducing the costs of a major event by 60%
• Reduced projected losses in advertising revenue due to the economic downturn by 200%
• Marketed on campus events using street teams, print campaigns, social media & promotional events
• Managed Business Team for recruitment of advertising & sponsorship through intensive C.R.M.
• Developed for the organization an annual budget, S.W.O.T. analysis & comprehensive transition manual

Marketing & Communications Intern @ Queen's School of Business

June - August 2007, Kingston, Ontario

• Prepared Flash & keynote presentations, press releases & web design for the Executive MBA program
Assisted in maintaining and coordinating Alumni Mailing lists for the School of Business Alumni Association

Publicity Co-Director @ Queen's University Bands

March 2007 - March 2008 , Kingston, Ontario

• Responsible for public relations, semi-formal, recruitment & fund raising campaigns
• Used social media, street teams, print campaigns & street performances to increase student support by 20%
• Created a strong working relationship with the Western University Mustang Marching Bands

Education

Queen's University @ Kingston, Ontario

Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Film & Media with a minor in Philosophy

• Involved with Queen’s TV, Golden Words (Newspaper), & Philosopher’s Café (Magazine)
• Received the Daylight Academic Scholarship from Daylight Energy, LTD. for 2006 – 2009
• Studied at the International Study Centre (England), with a focus on International Marketing