Paul Rutherford
Hamilton, Ontario L8P 1Y9
*************@*****.***
Skills
• Windows XP, Outlook, Word, Excel, Explorer, Data Entry, Desktop Publishing, Word
Processing
• Assembling, Compiling, Creating, Drawing, Organizing, Planning, Sorting,
Photographing, Team working, Troubleshooting, Visualizing, Writing
Experience
Currently employed as a maintenance porter (cleaner) for Magic Maintenance at Mapleview
Centre in Burlington, I have worked on various contract jobs for IMAX Corporation in
Mississauga as a manufacturing technician on their digital motion picture projectors as well
as packing units for shipment. Prior to that, I did electronic technical assembly work on
computers for food production and worked in a wholesale warehouse for four and a half
years packing, unpacking and stocking shelves with product orders, doing cyclical inventory
counts as well as taking photographs of products damaged in transit and communicating by
email and telephone with warehousing customers.
Illustration Artist 1993-2014
• Produced ink and coloured pencil advertising art for Hello Service Teams Inc.
• Made ink and graphite pencil illustrations of various kinds of trees for Connon
Nurseries Reference Guide
• Created graphite and coloured pencil illustration for children’s poem and ink
illustration for a Compact Disc music album cover, both for independent
author/musician Greg Paquette
• Drew ink exterior illustration of the Crossroads Centre in Burlington for their
newsletter ‘Events Connection’
Film Programmer, Dundas Public Library, Dundas 1992
• Planned and organized 16 mm film and video programs for various ages of people
including seniors in local nursing homes
• Contacted foreign embassies to borrow films and videos for international film
program
• Video circulation and film/video inventory
• Desktop published posters and brochures advertising library film programs
Nursery Farm Labourer, Connon Nurseries, Flamborough 1991
• Transplanted, fertilized, weeded and transported by tractor varieties of container
grown trees and shrubs for eventual shipment to retail garden centres
Paul Rutherford
303-40 Robinson Street
Hamilton, Ontario L8P 1Y9
*************@*****.***
Visual Effects Assistant, John Gajdecki Visual Effects Co., Toronto 1990
• Inked and opaque (whited out) effects animation artwork for YTV series
• Operated studio light in dry ice for ‘lights in fog’ effect
• photographed special effects animation artwork on animation camera stand
Education
• Sheridan College, Oakville, Ontario: Classical Animation Diploma 1990
• Mohawk College, Hamilton, Ontario: Commercial Art, Basic Airbrush 1993
• Park Business College, Hamilton: BASIC Computer Programming 1986
Volunteer Activities and Interests
• Basic construction, painting and yard maintenance for the Lighthouse School as well
as technical support for puppet show outreach for local children of the poor squatter
community of Los Alcarrizos outside the capital of Santo Domingo in Dominican
Republic with mission groups through Careforce International
2002, 2004
• Compiled and entered data for an inventory of computer and broadcast equipment for
the Crossroads Centre 1997
• Acted in cast and helped on crew of the Waterdown Village Theatre Group production
of the children’s play Narnia (based on The Lion, The Witch, And The Wardrobe by C.
S. Lewis) 1990
• Play a djembe (African hand drum) and occasionally have sung original and cover
songs in an open mic (microphone) session at a monthly held event called the Ark
Coffee House
• Write lyrics and poems
References available upon request