Resume
Lissa Pattillo
Halifax, Nova Scotia | Canada
contact@lissapattillo.com
Job Skills:
- Excellent time efficiency, organization and self-management
- Experience managing a department and associated staff, working in teams
- Strong multitasking abilities and commitment to quality production and service
- Confident verbal and written communicative skills, comfortable with public speaking
- Event organization, fundraising and promotion, non-profit specific
- Very experienced with computers and variety of programs; fast learner for new
- Communicating, receiving and submitting work through digital means
- Creating fully functional websites for various uses and size
Proficient with HTML, CSS, PHP
Experience with MySQL, Java
Custom WordPress Themes - Producing artwork and graphics; pre-press imposition
Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign
- Experience with cashier transactions and opening/closing stores
Work Experience:
Web and Graphic Design Freelance, Multiple Clients (November 06 – Present)
- Providing web and print designs for a variety of different projects, companies and clients. Includes proficiency with Adobe Creative Suite and web coding (HTML/CSS/PHP) and long-term maintenance of websites and hosting.
Production Staff Staples Copy & Print Hub (November 11 – Present)
- Print production associate at overnight facility. Responsibilities include working in a team to produce a variety of printed products for customers across Eastern Canada. Work includes scanning, cleaning/digital manipulation, cutting, binding & other finishing.
Pre-Press Technician Etc. Press (August 2011 – October 2011)
- Job required preparing customer files for both digital and off-set printing including graphic design, imposition and file conversion to proper extensions and colour profiles. Work was done between MAC and Windows operating systems. Projects were completed with continuous communication with customers via e-mail, telephone and in-person.
Copy Consultant Staples Copy & Print Centre (June 09 – August 2011)
- Lead position in a busy downtown Halifax print centre. Very goal oriented work with budget and profit management, heavy customer traffic and fast turnaround on multiple simultaneous jobs. Duties included order taking, full-service production (including design, print and finishing), machine maintenance, stock ordering and training of staff within both store and district.
Library Assistant NSCC Campus (Truro) (October 08 – April 09)
- Attending the main library desk and closing shifts at college campus library. Job included assisting patrons and college visitors, data collecting and entry, cataloguing and shelving of books and periodicals.
| Hostess | Captain Sub | (Truro, NS) | (May 08 – April 09) |
| Bakery Attendant | Sobeys Inc. | (Truro, NS) | (Aug 07 – Jan 08) |
| Housekeeping | IWK Health | (Halifax, NS) | (Aug 05 – May 07) |
| Cashier | Sobeys Inc. | (Halifax, NS) | (June 03 – Mar 05) |
Volunteer Experience:
Convention Chair Animinitime (Halifax/Moncton) 2010
- Lead organizer for non-profit conventions. Responsibilities included management of staff, attendees, registration information, scheduling, website maintenance and venue organization for events in different locations. Was convention chair for two events, one in Halifax, Nova and the other Moncton, New Brunswick
Convention Staff Animaritime (Moncton) 2008 – 2010
- Responsibilities include management of Artist’s Alley (exhibitors), support communications, website maintenance, attendee relations, regular meetings and preparations as well as a variety of public panels (commendations received)
Tutor NSCC (Truro) 2008 – 2009
- College level tutoring for Photoshop, Flash & Maya computer programs; included one-on-one sessions and group gatherings
Other:
- Editor, webmaster and lead contributor of kuriousity.ca
- Freelance Japanese graphic novel reviews and articles for various sites including Anime News Network and Otaku USA
- Participant in TAIS’s 2008 Monster Jam & DeviantArt’s 2008 AniJam animated projects
- Editor of Truro NSCC 2007 college newsletter (design, distribution, advertising)
- Hobbies include graphic novels, animation and web design
Education:
| College Diploma – Digital Animation September 2007 – May 2009 Nova Scotia Community College - Diploma achieved in June 2009 |
High School Diploma September 2001 – June 2004 Queen Elizabeth High - Diploma achieved in June 2004 |