Graduate Certificate in Project Management
Royal Roads University, Victoria 2016 – 2017
• Understanding project management models, life cycles and project integration management.
• Applying PM fundamentals, including the Project Management Institute’s Project Management Body of Knowledge®.
• Developing strategies for estimating, evaluating, forecasting, monitoring and reporting costs, and interpreting earned-value data.
• Mastering techniques to motivate others and embrace their role in project management.
• Engaging with the processes through which organizations, practices and projects are managed.

• Art direction and project management for design and artwork of new titles.
• Developing and maintaining positive working relationships with teams, artists and vendors.
• Book design work from picture books through teen and adult fiction.
• Designing covers from concept to finished work, book layout and typesetting.
• Overseeing the production of display advertising and promotional materials.
• Ensuring that books and collateral material are consistent with branding and publishing strategies.
• Advanced file manipulation and enhancement with Adobe Photoshop.
• Effectively managing multiple ongoing projects to deadline.
• Providing leadership and support.

• Developing and maintaining exceptional business partnerships with clients and print representatives.
• Identifying clients’ needs, providing vision and action plans.
• Original artwork for clients, writing and editing to assist with effective promotion and communication.
• Design collateral from concept to completion including books, reports, posters, brochures, packaging, game design.
• Campaign conception with art preliminaries in preparation of photo shoot art direction
• Clients included: BC Cancer Agency, Pearson College, Victorian Epicure, University of Victoria.
• Advanced file manipulation and enhancement with Adobe Photoshop.
• Effectively managing multiple ongoing projects to deadline.
• Providing leadership and support

• Organizing and designing multiple projects to deadline, lead communications with clients, team and vendors.
• Graphic design, writing, and content creation.
• In-house event campaigns, corporate promotions, ad copy, annual reports, press releases, sponsorship packages.
• Corporate identities and promo collateral for outside clients.
• Managing multiple projects to deadline.