| Date |
Client |
Project |
Responsibilities |
| 2012 |
City of Ottawa |
Member of Cultural Capacity Building Funding Jury |
- Review applications for award and work with other jury members to deliberate on funding recipients
|
| 2012 |
City of Ottawa |
Member of Karsh Award Jury |
- Review applications for award and work with other jury members to deliberate on honouree
- Prepare and deliver public speech at award ceremony
|
| 2011-2012 |
Department of Canadian Heritage |
Senior Program Development: The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee |
- Development of key messages and branding
- Sourcing content from public and private collections for promotional communications
- Preparation of curatorial content including final texts and supervision of design
- Key deliverables include a suite of products including four public exhibitions, a new English and French publication about constitutional monarchy in Canada, posters, event pop-up displays and a themed monthly social media program
|
| 2010-2011 |
Public Health Agency of Canada |
Senior Policy Analysis and Strategic Communications: knowledge transfer and information design for several communication vehicles (briefing notes, discussion papers, high level summaries, government to public web communications) concerning PHAC’s international role in combatting chronic diseases |
- Lead all outreach projects for the WHO Collaborating Centre, including re-development of website and development of publications
- Supervise contract content developers
- Manage web content production process
- Research and analysis of social science data
- Develop communications strategies to deliver social science (health) content
- Develop key messages
- Develop high level briefing materials, summaries, discussion papers and publications
- Liaison with international partners for collaborative publications
- Copywriting
- Write metadata
- Develop approach to graphics and short videos
|
| 2010-2011 |
Bird Dog Design |
Art direction and content development for
client corporate websites |
- Analysis of client needs
- Development of key messages and approaches
- Close liaison with design team to create look and feel
- Develop website texts
- Write metadata
|
| 2010 |
Department of Canadian Heritage |
Canada Interactive Fund Jury |
- Review and assess ~60 proposals to CIF
- Participate in jury roundtable review of proposals
|
| 2010 |
Ottawa Photography Festival X |
Festival Guest Curator for one of Ottawa’s
major festivals, Ottawa Photography
Festival X 2010, linking specific
installations, works and artists to the festival
theme through a curatorial essay, and
leading a live event/podcast with other participants. |
- Develop project production schedule
- Preliminary planning (review prior to Fest X of confirmed photographers/bodies of work to begin developing the themes)
- Site visits of installation venues
- Discussion, where possible, with photographers
- Prepare essay (5,000 words/15-20 mss pp.)
- Review French translation
- Prepare final English and French versions
- Proofread galleys
- Develop and participate in live event (to be confirmed)
|
| 2009-2012 |
U.S. National Park Service: Jamaica Bay/Gateway
Sector, New York |
Lead research and analysis consultant to Origin Studios for rehabilitation of Floyd Bennett Field interpretive centre. Floyd Bennett Field was the first municipal airport in New York City and a significant site for WPA murals |
- Research and analysis of industrial history working with primary and secondary sources
- Develop project briefs
- Direct communications strategy
- Project coordination
- Liaison with 3D and graphic design
- Develop project collateral (audio tour for sight-impaired visitors, multimedia storyboard for touch-screen interactives)
- Copywriting
- Copyright clearance
|
| 2009-2010 |
Public Health Agency of Canada |
Concept development and text writing for new communications web pages for WHO/PHAC noncommunicable disease monitoring and evaluation initiative |
- Advise on PHAC and Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) on international strategic communications leading up to 2011 UN Summit on Chronic Disease
- Develop key messages sourced from client decks and publications
- Advise on publishing formats (brochure, website, etc.)
- Copywriting
- Write metadata
- Develop approach to graphics and short videos
|
| 2009-2010 |
Foreign Affairs and Trade/Canadian Wheat Board/Library and Archives Canada |
Lead research and analysis consultant for travelling exhibition commemorating the 40th anniversary of Canada’s diplomatic recognition of China |
- Research and analysis of international trade history working with primary and secondary sources
- Project coordination
- Develop key messages
- Content research
- Copywriting
- Quality assurance: editing and translation in English, French and Chinese
- Copyright clearance for graphics
- Art direction for in-house graphic designer
- Direct communications strategy for project collateral (printed brochure, on-line version of exhibition)
|
| 2009 |
Library and Archives Canada |
Lead research and analysis for “Sound and Vision” Festival Karsh exhibitions |
- Site and artifact analysis
- Develop concept and key messages
- Select artifacts (Karsh portraits and related manuscript, art and music collection holdings)
- Write exhibition texts
- Design support: graphic approach, site installation
|
| 2009 |
Office of the Commissioner of the Official Languages |
Lead research and analysis consultant for 40th anniversary travelling exhibition |
- Research and analysis of political/social science history working with primary and secondary sources
- Site and artifact analysis
- Develop concept and key messages
- Select artifacts (political cartoons and caricatures)
- Write exhibition texts
- Design support: graphic approach, site installation
|
| 2009 |
School for Studies in Art and Culture/Carleton University |
Co-instructor, 4th year seminar: “Photography and the City” |
- Develop and develop course content involving economic, aesthetic and social models of photographic practices and urban planning
- Develop class website
- Lead research projects and evaluate course deliverables
|
| 2008 |
Communication Research Centre/Industry Canada |
Lead research and analysis consultant for 40th anniversary permanent exhibition |
- Research and analysis of industrial/scientific history working with primary and secondary sources
- Site and artifact analysis
- Develop concept and key messages
- Select artifacts (photographs, models, prototypes)
- Write exhibition texts
- Design support: graphic approach, site installation
|
| 2008-2009 |
U.S. National Park Service: Jamaica Bay/Gateway
Sector, New York |
Masterplanning consultant to Origin Studios for rehabilitation of Floyd Bennett Field interpretive centre. Floyd Bennett Field was the first municipal airport in New York City and a significant site for WPA murals |
- Site analysis and curatorial research
- Identify key themes: commercial aviation architectural history, cultural landscape, natural landscape
- Develop three interpretive schemes
- Prepare cost estimations
- Develop programmatic accessibility solutions
- Liaise with project team (architect, structural engineer, lighting designer, 3D and graphic designer)
- Participate in value engineering analysis
|
| 2007-2009 |
Portrait Gallery of Canada |
Director, Exhibitions and Interpretation* and Lead developer of Karsh: Image Maker Travelling Exhibition (partnership between Portrait Gallery of Canada and the Canada Science and Technology Museum) [winner of the Canadian Museum Association Outstanding Award of Excellence 2010]
*2008: at request of Director General, as most senior consultant then on staff, stepped in to assume position on an interim basis for 7 months due to a sudden vacancy |
- Manage staff of 8 and $3 million annual budget
- Strategic planning (travelling tour, festival partnerships)
- Develop concept lead and key messages
- Lead client and contractor content research team
- Identify communications and development opportunities
- Liaise with Director General and Directors regarding project development
- Prepare project deliverables (content briefs, artifact lists, website storyboard, project framework)
|
| 2008 |
Brad Hill
New York |
Masterplanning consultant to Origin Studios for Liberty Island Rehabilitation Project
Interpretive Development for Proposal to U.S. National Park Service: Jamaica Bay/Gateway Sector, New York |
- Undertake site analysis and curatorial research
- Identify key themes: building the statue, the New York Harbor cultural landscape, symbol of a nation
- Develop two interpretive schemes
- Prepare cost estimations
- Develop programmatic accessibility solutions
- liaise with project team (architect, structural engineer, lighting designer, 3D and graphic designer)
|
| 2008 |
Portrait Gallery of Canada |
Curatorial support for Winterlude 2008 Portraits on Ice |
- Undertake research and prepare remarks for 12 portraits to be featured at public areas around the National Capital
- Record commentaries in English and French
|
| 2007 |
Portrait Gallery of Canada |
Curatorial consultant for the development of 12 Travelling Exhibition Briefs |
- Lead development of next 5-year project cycle through the research, analysis and develop of specific priority projects:
- précis of the content
- preliminary list of portraits
- identification of target audience(s)
- interpretive approaches
- curriculum links
- recommended collateral (guides, virtual versions, gallery interactions, etc.)
- special instructions for design
- identification of proposed hosting venues
- running feet estimations
- production and shipping cost estimations
|
| 2007 |
Health Canada/Robert Half Technology |
Research and analysis for Office of Consumer and Public Involvement Website and Communication Outreach Products |
- Analyze existing web content
- Interview key team members
- Research parallel sites in US, UK and Australia
- propose expanded information architecture and user navigation
- Develop draft content for review by team
- Prepare final content
- Quality assurance on French translation
|
| 2007 |
Health Canada/Robert Half Technology |
Interpretive development for Aboriginal Diabetes Initiative Communication Outreach Products |
- Analyze existing communication outreach products
- Interview key team members
- Research parallel products in US, UK and Australia
- Propose innovative communications products, expanded information architecture and user navigation
- Develop draft content for review by team
- Prepare final content
- Quality assurance on French translation
|
| 2007 |
Public Health Agency of Canada/ Fiddlehead Technology Group |
Research and analysis for WHO Collaborating Centre on Chronic Disease Website |
- Analyze existing web content
- Interview key team members
- Research parallel sites in US, UK and Australia
- Propose expanded information architecture and user navigation
- Develop draft content for review by team
- Prepare final content
- Quality assurance on French translation
|
| 2007 |
Portrait Gallery of Canada |
Research and analysis for Vault 34: A Curator’s Tour |
- Research, develop and deliver 2-hour tour of paintings, drawings and photographs in the collection
- Hire and coordinate two subcontractors to provide shuttle bus escort and pre-tour interpretation
- Design and deliver visitor evaluation instrument and produce summative qualitative and quantitative report
- Liaison with conservation, care of collections, and artifact circulation staff
|
| 2006-2007 |
Health Canada/Robert Half Technology |
Research and analysis for Market Health Products Directorate: MedEffect Website |
- Lead content review and information architecture planning
- Develop new CLF2-compliant client-centered content for Consumers, Patients, Caregivers; Health Professionals; Health Products Industry; Media audiences
- Draft internal and external communications (internal correspondence, briefing decks, intranet articles, printed brochures and kit folders)
- Contribute to team project environment: brainstorm sessions, response to developing work from colleagues, etc.
|
| 2006 |
Natural Resources Canada/Robert Half Technology |
Research and analysis for EnergyWatch Canada
Office of Petroleum Pricing Information |
- Research and develop HTML pages for website informing Canadians about petroleum pricing, initiatives for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, explaining how world oil and gas markets work
- Liaise with department specialists to collect data
- Prepare drafts for client review
- Make editorial changes to content
- Produce final text copy
- Quality assurance reviews of website prototype
- Develop editorial guidelines and standards to ensure consistency across the site
- Advise on graphic elements such as images, graphs, maps, hot links, etc.
|
| 2005-2006 |
U.S. National Park Service: Sandy Hook National Park (Sandy Hook, NJ) |
Masterplanning consultant to Origin Studios to develop intellectual and physical access to North America’s first mortar battery, and strategic location for the North Atlantic Harbor Defense and site of the genesis of the U.S. Coast Guard. |
- On-site information documentation and analysis
- Participate in client/subcontractor charette to review visitor centre, museum and site tour
- Lead client workshops to develop physical and intellectual access in conjunction with planned architectural and landscape renovations
- Develop treatments for web-based and on-site products from concept development to detailed design to production
- Prepare client deliverables: site plans and CG elevations, Class C program estimates
- Interface with architectural and design team members: develop, review and annotate drawings
- Content writing and editing
|
| 2005- |
U.S. National Park Service: Saugus Iron
Works (Saugus, MA) /Bargmann Hendrie
+ Archetype Inc.
|
Project development consultant to Origin Studios to evaluate
proposed renovation of visitor centre and site tour and make recommendations
to improve intellectual and physical access to the first integrated
ironworks in North America which features a reconstructed blast furnace,
forge, rolling mill and a restored 17th century house.
|
- On-site information documentation and
analysis
- Participate in client/subcontractor
charette to review visitor centre, museum and site tour
- Lead client workshops to develop physical
and intellectual access in conjunction with planned architectural
and landscape renovations
- Develop treatments for web-based and
on-site products from concept development to detailed design to
production
- Prepare client deliverables: site plans
and CG elevations, Class C program estimates
- Interface with architectural and design
team members: develop, review and annotate drawings
- Content writing and editing: selection
of archival and artifactual elements, storyboarding, on-site supervision
of film crew
|
| 2006- |
Natural Resources Canada
|
Communications Branch: Web and New Media Planning Group
|
- Develop web
site policy and project management approaches
- Develop site
structure web texts
- Draft departmental
internal documents (Departmental Compliance Study, Departmental
Web Writing Guidelines)
- Analyze content
and make recommendations for revision
- Draft letters
for signature by DG, Minister
- Contribute to
team project environment: brainstorm sessions, response to developing
work from colleagues, etc.
|
| March2006 |
Natural Resources Canada |
EnergyWatch Canada
Office of Petroleum Pricing Information
|
- Research and develop HTML pages for website informing Canadians
about petroleum pricing, initiatives for reducing greenhouse gas
emissions, explaining how world oil and gas markets work
- Liaise with department specialists to collect data
- Prepare drafts for client review
- Make editorial changes to content
- Produce final text copy
- Quality assurance reviews of website prototype
- Develop editorial guidelines and standards to ensure consistency
across the site
- Advise on graphic elements such as images, graphs, maps, hot
links, etc.
|
| 2003-2006 |
The Renaissance ROM Royal
Ontario Museum (Toronto, ON)/ Studio Daniel Libeskind |
Project development consultant to Haley Sharpe Design (UK)-Origin
Studios to facilitate content development for 15 permanent exhibition
spaces in the renovation of Canada's premiere natural history and
cultural heritage centre.
|
- Lead client workshops to develop information content (artifacts,
maps, texts, multimedia) from concept development to detailed
design to production
- Prepare client deliverables: structural plans, progress reports,
website prototypes
- Interface with architectural and design team members: review
and annotate drawings
- Content writing and editing
- Source graphics and multimedia content
- Supervise sub-contractors (editors, translators, researchers)
- Manage project resources (budget, schedule, information)
|
| 2005-2006 |
U.S. National Park Service: Sandy Hook National
Park (Sandy Hook, NJ) |
Project development consultant to Origin Studios
to develop intellectual and physical access to North America's first
mortar battery, and strategic location for the North Atlantic Harbor
Defence and site of the genesis of the U.S. Coast Guard. |
- On-site information documentation and analysis
- Participate in client/subcontractor charette to review visitor
centre, museum and site tour
- Lead client workshops to develop physical and intellectual
access in conjunction with planned architectural and landscape
renovations
- Develop treatments for web-based and on-site products from
concept development to detailed design to production
- Prepare client deliverables: site plans and CG elevations,
Class C program estimates
- Interface with architectural and design team members: develop,
review and annotate drawings
- Content writing and editing
|
| 2004 |
Canadian Petroleum Interpretive Centre(Devon,
Alberta)
|
Masterplanning consultant to Haley Sharpe Design (UK)-Origin Studios
on the masterplanning and interpretive design for permanent exhibition
spaces in the renovation of interpretive centre devoted to the origins
of Canada's premiere petroleum industry.
|
- Develop concepts for visitor centre and exhibition treatments
for web-based and on-site products
- Prepare client deliverables: site plans and CG elevations,
Class C program estimates
- Interface with architectural and design team members: develop,
review and annotate drawings
- Primary and secondary research
- Content writing and editing
|
|
2003-2005
|
U.S. National Park Service: Morristown National Historic Park
Museum (Morristown, NJ)/Einhorn Yaffee Prescott Architects
|
Masterplanning consultant to Haley Sharpe Design (UK)- Origin
Studios to evaluate proposed museum expansion and rehabilitation
project and to develop content for new exhibition gallery program
on the theme of George and Martha Washington, and the American Revolutionary
War.
|
- On-site documentation and analysis of historic buildings,
museum facilities and collection of 18th and 19th
artifacts
- Participate in client/subcontractor charette to review visitor
centre, museum and site tour
- Manage client information through creation of database to
record 3,000 museum artifacts
- Lead client workshops to develop physical and intellectual
access in conjunction with planned architectural and landscape
renovations
- Develop concepts for web-based and on-site products
- Prepare client deliverables: site plans and CG elevations,
Class C program estimates
- Interface with architectural and design team members: develop,
review and annotate drawings
- Primary and secondary research
- Content writing and editing
|
| 2003-2004 |
Cape Cod Museum of Natural History. The Great
Auk Journey (Brewster, MA) |
Web-writing consultant to Origin Studios to
develop site architecture, design concepts, and curriculum-related
content for web-based product about the
fragility and connections of oceans to human and animal life.
|
- Develop content for web-based interactive exploration, from
concept development to detailed design to production
- Prepare client deliverables: storyboards, prototypes and Class
C program estimates
- Interface with design team members: develop, review and annotate
drawings
- Primary and secondary research
- Content writing
|
|
2003
|
Canadian Children's
Museum/Canadian
Museum of Civilization
Hull, QC)
|
Web-writing consultant to Origin Studios to evaluate corporate
web-site information and end-user products.
|
- Analyze existing website structure, design and content
- Draft Website Assessment and Virtual Access Policy Review,
including recommendations for re-design of site
- Present findings to client
- Prepare final report
|
| 2002-2003 |
The new Canadian War Museum (Ottawa, ON)/Moriyama
+ Teshima Architects |
Project development consultant to the Haley
Sharpe Design (UK)-Origin Studios on the interpretive design of a
new-build facility dedicated to the story of Canada's military history.
|
- Lead client workshops to develop exhibit content (artifacts,
maps, texts, multimedia) from concept development to detailed
design to production
- Prepare client deliverables: structural plans, progress reports,
website prototypes
- Interface with architectural and design team members: review
and annotate drawings
- Content writing and editing
|
| 2002 |
Canadian Museum of Civilization (Hull, QC)
|
Masterplanning consultant to Origin Studios
to develop interpretation and design for large-scale temporary exhibition
"The Inuvialuit: Living and Surviving in the Western Canadian
Arctic" about an Inuit people living in the Western Canadian
Arctic, who have had to successfully adapt to both the challenging
Arctic environment and later to the arrival of Europeans. |
- Lead client team meetings
- Participate in concept development
- Interface with architectural and design team members: review
and annotate drawings
|
| 2002 |
Canadian Museum of Civilization (Hull, QC)
|
Masterplanning consultant to Origin Studios
to develop interpretation and design for large-scale temporary exhibition
for the First Peoples Hall: Zone 4 "Shockwave"
(European Contact to the Present) Which tells the story of
aboriginal history from the shockwave of European contact to present
reaffirmations of native political identity, spirituality, economy,
languages, arts and social gatherings. |
- Lead client team meetings
- Participate in concept development
- Interface with architectural and design team members: review
and annotate drawings
- Manage client information and develop as in-gallery products
- Content writing and editing
|
| 2002 |
New Bedford Whaling Museum (New Bedford, MA)
|
Web-writing consultant to Origin Studios to
develop "Portraits of Ports", a multi-phase web-based product
about the history of whaling in New Bedford, Massachusetts and Barrow,
Alaska. The website is also a distance learning initiative that explores
cross-cultural connections between humans and whales, and between
Americans and Inuit people. |
- Lead client workshops to develop exhibit content (artifacts,
maps, texts, multimedia) from concept development to detailed
design to production
- Develop content for web-based interactive exploration, from
concept development to detailed design to production
- Prepare client deliverables: storyboards using FilemakerPro,
prototypes and Class C program estimates
- Interface with design team members: develop, review and annotate
drawings
- Primary and secondary research
- Content writing
|
| 2002 |
City of Ogdensburg (Ogdesnburg, NY)
|
Project development consultant to Expothèque to
create an interpretive centre for the historic Post Office in Ogdensburg,
New York, exploring the community's significant role as a hub in
the history of North American commercial shipping by river and rail.
|
- On-site documentation and analysis of historic buildings and
collection of 18th and 19th artifacts
- Participate in client/subcontractor charette to develop objectives
for visitor centre
- Develop content from concept development to detailed design
to production
- Manage client information through creation of database to
record museum artifacts
- Interface with architectural and design team members: develop,
review and annotate drawings
- Primary and secondary research
- Source graphic images
- Content writing and editing
|
| 2002 |
National Library of Canada (Ottawa, ON)
|
Project development consultant to the National
Library of Canada to create a large-scale exhibition "Sensational
Stories" based on Canada's early pulp fiction publishing industry,
featuring magazines, manuscripts and original artwork highlighting
the little-known world of detective and romance thriller fiction.
|
- On-site documentation and analysis of pulp fiction collection
- Develop content from concept development to detailed design
to production
- Manage client information through creation of database to
record library artifacts
- Interface with architectural and design team members: develop,
review and annotate drawings
- Primary and secondary research
- Content writing and editing
|
| 2001 |
Canadian Museum of Civilization (Hull, QC)
|
Web-writing consultant to Origin Studios to
create web-based product "Mystery at No. 262" for children
6-16 based on the Forster Malley Victoria dollhouse. |
- Lead client workshops to develop web interface for vector-based
product from concept development to detailed design to production
- Prepare client deliverables: storyboards using Excel, prototypes
- Interface with design team members: develop, review and annotate
drawings
- Primary and secondary research
- Content writing
|
| 2001 |
National Archives of Canada
|
Web-writing consultant to Lab Idée-Clic to
create web-based product "Prenez Place! Gratien Gelinas",
featuring one of the founders of modern Canadian theatre and film
as playwright, producer of theatre and film, actor, translator and
administrator. |
- Lead client workshops to develop web interface for HTML product
from concept development to detailed design to production
- Prepare client deliverables: storyboards using Excel, prototypes
- Interface with design team members: develop, review and annotate
drawings
- Primary and secondary research
- Content writing
|
| 2000 |
National Archives of Canada |
Web-writing consultant to Origin Studios to
create web-based product "Mary Riter Hamilton: Traces of War"
featuring the Canadian artist who journeyed to the motionless scenes
of battle to paint an indelible picture of the destructive consequences
of war. |
- Lead client workshops to develop web interface for vector-based
product from concept development to detailed design to production
- Prepare client deliverables: storyboards using Excel, prototypes
- Interface with design team members: develop, review and annotate
drawings
- Primary and secondary research
- Content writing
|
| 2000 |
National Archives of Canada |
Web-writing consultant to Origin Studios to
create web-based product "Real Stories: A Past in Miniatures"
featuring small, beautifully crafted portraits documenting personalities
important to Canadian history. |
- Lead client workshops to develop web interface for vector-based
product from concept development to detailed design to production
- Prepare client deliverables: storyboards using Excel, prototypes
- Interface with design team members: develop, review and annotate
drawings
- Primary and secondary research
- Content writing
|
| 2000 |
Ottawa Art Gallery
(Ottawa, ON) |
Project development
consultant for large-scale temporary
exhibition and exhibition catalogue "Ottawa:
On Display/Mise en Scène"
choreographing historical artifacts and
contemporary popular culture objects considering
how we see Ottawa as a site for the
performance of national identity. |
- On-site documentation and analysis of historical and contemporary
collections from six institutions
- Develop content from concept development to detailed design
to production
- Manage client information through creation of database to
record project information
- Interface with design team members: develop, review and annotate
drawings
- Primary and secondary research
- Content writing and editing
- Arrange and conduct interviews with John Ralston Saul, Chantal
Hébert, Marion Dewar, John Ramlochand
|
|
2000
|
National Library of
Canada (Ottawa, ON)
|
Masterplanning and project development consultant to Meriton
International to create large-scale temporary exhibition "Jazz
Sensation: Oscar Peterson at the National Library of Canada"
exploring the life and music of Canada's leading jazz musician.
|
- On-site documentation and analysis of jazz-related collections
- Develop content from concept development to detailed design
to production
- Manage client information through creation of database to
record project information
- Interface with design team members: develop, review and annotate
drawings
- Primary and secondary research
- Content writing and editing
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