High School Maintenance

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Mark v. Howie BA

Mississauga,ON, L5B2E9

E-mail: *******@*****.***

Bachelors of Arts in English-McGill University, Montreal

Solutions finder, creative, excellent writing & communication skills

Extensive hands on experience with Windows OS's and a variety software applications

Certified Yoga Instructor- Green Path Yoga, San Francisco

Experience Teaching at both Middle School and High School levels

2011 Apr 2012 Yoga Society of New York

Director of Promotions

Developed Strategic Marketing Plan

Lead Creative Team for Ashram Promo Videos, Monthly eNewsletters, eBrochures, Flyers,

Organized LiveStreaming of Events Organized Ashram Grant Writing Team, Daily Website

Updates using Html and ftp

Certified Yoga Instructor- Teaching 3 classes per week

2004- 2010 Ministry of Education, Hamilton, Bermuda

Substitute Teacher: Berkley High School, Spice Valley Middle School & Whitney Institute

Responsible for teaching course curriculum in Physical Education, Computers, English, Social

Studies, Science and Reading

Cycling, Swimming & Tennis Team Leader

2009 Yoga Society of New York

Certified Yoga Instructor- RYT 200 Greenpath Yoga

W ebsite Maintenance, Life Guard, Grounds Maintenance, Event Facilitator

W ork Study Program encompassing many forms of yoga asana, meditation, Sanskrit

Karma yoga (3-5 hours of work related volunteering per day)

2004- 2007 Part-Time Writer, Web Designer/Producer, Hamilton, Bermuda

Publishing and maintenance using Dreamweaver, PhotoShop, ImageReady, Illustrator,

InDesign, Pagemaker, Seagate Crystal Reports,

W orked within Html, Dhtml, Javascript,CSS, ASP, SQL 7 environments

Graphic design and logos

Publicity including writing editorials, newsletters, press releases, ad copy and letterhead

2001- 2004 Freelance Web Designer/Producer, Toronto, Ontario

Publishing and Web maintenance

Animated banner ad designer

Personal Firewall and Antivirus installation, extensive knowledge of P2P File sharing

2000-2001 Bermuda Electric Light Company, Pembroke, Bermuda

Web Developer

Assisted building Belco s firewall protected intranet: http://Belconet

Built numerous applications using Visual Interdev, ASP, SQL Database, email triggers, and

Crystal Reports including:

On-line in-house help desk application

Company classifieds

Online employee telephone directory and database

IT software inventory application

1999- 2000-Freelance Web Designer, Hamilton, Ontario

Attended Trios College: MCP and Web Design training

W eb designer/producer- Air Canada Employee Website

1998-1999 Nortel Networks-Global Data Center, Brampton, Ontario

Jr.Systems Administrator/ Call Center

Handled Windows NT and Unix problem tickets using administrative tools Reflections, Remedy

software and Netman (cont )

Provided technical support via 24 X 7bridge hotline

Remote interfacing network servers with department automation tools

Troubleshooting and resolution of network outages, server slowdowns, hardware upgrades and

printer problems, file and access permissions, connectivity, OS failures and installations

Logged weekly outage reports, metrics on both NT and UNIX WAN s using Crystal Reports

1996-1997 Abbey Oaks News, Oakville, Ontario

Journalist and Marketing Representative

Responsible for marketing display advertisement space to local business and corporate ad agencies

and meeting weekly deadlines and quotas

Provided editorial and photo opportunities for the business section

Copywriter and ad designer for various clients

Developed new marketing strategies, while maintaining approximately 20% of total advertising

revenue

1995 McGill University, Montreal, Quebec

B.A. English Literature, Junior Varsity Squash, Hockey, McGill Daily News

2000 Trios College, Hamilton, Ontario

MCP (Microsoft Certified Professional)

2001 Gateway Systems, Hamilton, Bermuda

SQL Server 7.0, Visual Interdev

Windows 2000 Server & Professional

1998-1999 Nortel Networks, Brampton, Ontario

Windows NT in the Enterprise, Windows NT Server & Workstation 4.0, HP UX Unix

Yoga Society of New York, Bermuda Union of Teachers, Big Brothers Bermuda, Bermuda Tennis

Association, Greenrock, SBR Triathlon Association NY, Bermuda National Gallery, World Vision

Clayton Horton- Director, GreenPath Yoga- **********@*****.***

Alisa Rose- Founder, One Yoga Unites- *************@*****.***

Stephen Alexander- Pilot, Air Canada- ********@*****.***

Written References also available on request

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