WORK EXPERIENCE
Filipino Life Magazine
Position: Art & Editorial Director • October 2005 - Present
Responsible for the art direction and design implementation of each quarterly issue
Duties include organizing the editorial/advertising line-ups, finalizing the print dummy
Copy edit editorial and submit necessary legal/grammatical changes to the publisher
Toronto Community News - Metroland Media Group Ltd.
Position: Senior Production Coordinator, Art Direction • Nov. 2004 - Feb. 2007
Coordinated all responsibilities of the Advertising & Special Features Department which includes the Advertising Features stream, Special Sections stream for the community newspapers and all public and private Job Prints
Responsible for the Art Direction and full design of all Job print products including magazines, digests, corporate products, promotionals, and special paper sections, as well as coordinated all editorial needs for such same products
Managed a team of three-members, as well as worked directly with senior management on many projects. Was also responsible for being the direct client contact on products produced for the private sector.
Wrote and designed advertising features for advertising clients for all the TCN community papers
In charge of the complete Art Direction for Centre of the City magazine, a high-end publication delivered to 40,000 homes throughout the GTA. Worked directly with the Editor-in-Chief to produce layouts that highlighted and enlivened the editorial copy, as well as headed up the complete redesign of the title in September 2006
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