Peter Shanly

acz7rj@r.postjobfree.com

416-***-****

Portfolio: www.petershanly.com

Toronto, ON

Profile

A skilled graphic designer professing in branding and advertisement, who possesses a diverse skill set,

with six-and-a-half years of working experience and a portfolio containing a wide variety of designs.

Skills

• Advanced knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite 6

• Very Windows and Mac literate

• Strong collaborative skills

• Work within tight deadlines

• Fast learner; able to quickly learn guidelines, software, and program languages

• HTML, CSS, Wordpress, and Flash Actionscript literate

• Strong knowledge of print colour profile building, monitor calibration, and colour spaces

• Interest and experience in branding, advertisement, infographics, iconography, animation, and mobile design

• Prepress setup

• Experienced photographer

Programs

Photoshop CC / CS6

Illustrator CS6

InDesign CS6

Flash CS6

After Effects CS6

Soundbooth CS6

Dreamweaver CS6

Premiere Pro CS6

Bridge CS6

Lightroom

Sharepoint

Quicktime Pro

Microsoft Office

Google Drive

Acrobat Pro

3D animation experience (Maya)

Work Experience

Freelance Graphic Designer 2016 – Present

Working as a freelance graphic designer providing services for:

• Branding / Corporate Identity and logo design

• Advertising

• Print documents and collateral

• Presentations

• Front-end web design

• Package design

Beakbane Brand Strategies & Communications

Branding, Corporate Identity, Advertisement & Packaging Graphic Designer 2014-2016

Worked as a designer for a marketing firm specializing in branding and package design

• Hired as graphic designer 2014-2016

• Received bonus for performance in 2015

• Regularly developed advertisements, labels, packaging in the food industry

• Created packaging and display renderings and mockups

• Prepress dieline setup

• Created large format graphic design, including transport truck graphics and trade show booth designs

• Designed document and presentation layout

• Created internal office TV display graphics, and screensaver animation and formatting

• Developed Wordpress websites, email templates

• Created graphics for social media content for multiple industries

• Created Beakbane’s new company website, including a full interactive portfolio gallery

Technical skills: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Acrobat Pro, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash, Google Drive, Microsoft Office for Mac, Dropbox/Filesharing services, Apple iOS environment.

Buck Consultants, A Xerox Company (now Conduent)

Branding and Corporate Identity Freelance/Junior Graphic Designer 2011-2014

Worked in a large corporate environment for a multinational actuary firm and developed a diverse range of material for the company of 2000 employees.

• Freelanced as a designer for Buck 2011-2012

• Hired as junior graphic designer 2012-2014

• Received bonus for performance in 2013

• Freelanced as a designer for Buck 2011-2012

• Designed document and presentation layout

• Developed website layout, banner/carousel creation, email templates

• Created advertisement, display banner and booth design

• Designed infographic and icon designs, templates, and guides documents

• Branded and produced logo designs for Buck products and services

• Developed interactive animated holiday e-card for 3 years in a row

• Led conference calls, WebEx, presentations, and project management across multiple time zones.

Technical skills: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Acrobat Pro, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, WebEx, Quicktime, Bridge, Windows OS environment

Canadian Foundation for AIDS Research (CANFAR)

Advertisement and Event Graphics Freelance Designer 2012

Created the entire brand and collateral for Our Future Without AIDS, an annual fund raiser.

The event was a great success. Collateral created included:

• 20 large scale posters

• 60 page art auction catalogue

• Multiple web advertisements

• Raffle signage and ballots

Technical skills: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Acrobat Pro

IntraOne Marketing

Digital Signage and Motion Graphics Freelance Designer 2011

• Created animated advertisements using Flash displayed on HDTVs in several businesses across Canada

• Clients included Castrol, Michelin Tires, Canadian Tire, BF Goodrich Tires, and NAPA Auto Parts.

Technical skills: Flash, Photoshop, Illustrator, Premier Pro, Adobe Media Encoder, Acrobat Pro

CSMLS.org and LabCon 2010 & 2011

Motion Graphics Freelance Designer 2010 - 2011

Created a text-based animated video to kick-off a medical lab technicians conference in Edmonton called

LabCon 2010. It was viewed by 14,000 people at the opening of the conference.

• Used Adobe After Effects to animate the video as well as creating an remix of the song

“Don’t Stop Believing” by Journey for the sound track through Adobe Soundbooth.

• Delivered with very fast turnaround (1 week)

• Created the LabCon 2011 animated video the following year.

Technical skills: After Effects, Photoshop, Illustrator

Starbucks Coffee

Freelance Designer & Barista 2009 - 2012

• Freelanced for Starbucks Coffee creating custom design projects involving employee photo biographies.

o Used as an opportunity to educate customers on Starbucks vocabulary by showing how to read the markings on the sides of cups to identify specialty drinks such as lattes.

o Positive result with drop in wrong drinks being taken and huge development in customer relationships.

• Designed custom tracking charts for district and regional managers to keep track of the numbers of units sold for promotions.

Technical skills: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign

Cundari SFP (Cundari)

Branding and Corporate Identity Design Intern Summer 2007

• Worked with clients including: Microsoft, WATERFRONToronto, Laura Secord, and Rogers

• Created case study layout, printing and assembly

• Designed PowerPoint templates

• Extensive Photoshop editing

• Performed corporate stationery editing and updating

• Responsible for in-house printing, cropping and mounting

• Designed infographics for client materials

Technical skills: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Acrobat Pro, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook

MVS Solutions

Motion Graphics Freelance Designer Summer 2004 - 2005

Designed animated infographic material for MVS Solutions inc., a multi-million dollar mainframe software company specializing in mainframe work efficiency

• Designed presentation materials to explain complex mainframe management programs and processes

• Produced a 60 slide PowerPoint presentation including animated charts and diagrams

• Upgraded PowerPoint slides to a Flash presentation with animated diagrams and a navigation system allowing for use of either a keyboard, mouse or an interactive menu programmed through Actionscript 2.0

• Self taught Flash Actionscript to complete project

Technical skills: Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, Acrobat Pro, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook

Education

York University / Sheridan Institute 2004 - 2008 (joint program)

Honours Bachelor of Design

York University Entrance Scholarship.

Notes

Letters of recommendation and references available upon request.

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