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HELLO!
I'M KAT L TRACHUK.
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MASTER, DIGITAL ART & DESIGNER
TYPOGRAPHY #1 - " W O W" ARTIST !
'CERTIFIED' COMPUTER GRAPHIC ARTIST
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WHEN PEOPLE SEE MY WORK, THE FIRST THING...
THEY SAY... IS ..."W O W"!!!
I BELIEVE QUALITY IS 'KEY' TO ANY 'MARKETING CAMPAIGN' AND I PUT COMPANIES ON THE DIGITAL MAP...WITH 'STUNNING' ARTISTIC BRANDING!
I LOVE WHAT I DO AND IMPROVING A COMPANY'S
"BOTTOM LINE" WITH CO-CREATION, DESIGN TECHNIQUES,
Go Hand-In-Hand with SUCCESS!
WHICH IS ... " WHY " I AM SOUGHT AFTER AND... HIRED!
01 PROFESSIONAL
MY KNOWLEDGE LEVEL IN SOFTWARE
ONLINE DEVELOPER
84%
CMS
99%
CS CREATIVE SUITE
77%
PHOTOSHOP
90%
PRESENTATIONS
99%
HTML & CSS
88%
POWERPOINT
70%
Digital Paintings - ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 2002-2019
03 Experience
2011-CURRENT
APP DIVA
Art Director | APP Developer and Designer
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DIGITAL VISUAL ‘ STORYTELLING ‘ – using less verbiage, embracing: “ A Picture is worth 1,000 words “ motto
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GRAPHIC DESIGN - Graphic Makeovers, Branding, Enhancement, Design | Layout, incorporating our ART of Typography
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DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY - On-site Digital Photography | Photo Enhancement | Photo Editing | Color | Black and White
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SOCIAL MEDIA – Keeping up with the TRENDS is #1: Digital Marketing, Banners, Videos, Presentations and Animation
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HIGHLIGHTS
Extra Project - ADLC Moodle Web Developer
2014-2015
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DESIGN and LAYOUT - Created dynamic, customized multimedia, online learning modules containing specific learning tasks
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DIGITAL VISUALS | PHOTO – Edit and Manipulate pixels that fit the design, clear, crisp pictures and vibrant colors
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SKYPE meetings scheduled for an hour once a week from Edmonton, Alberta
2002-2005
KAT `S Graphics Inc.
Creative Design Lead
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Management of Web Development (concept to completion) using: Microsoft (Front Page, PPT - PowerPoint, Word, Excel, Visio; Adobe Products: Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Captivate, Story, Acrobat PDF, Fireworks and Flash
HIGHLIGHTS
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Re-BRANDING a presentation and condensed a 3 hour into 30 minutes for the Canadian Shoppers Club
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Developed my ‘own’ Style and Technique for my Digital Paintings, Giclees Prints with mentor: MASTER PAINTER: Maheim Patel
[ONGOING CONTRACT WORK] - 2005 -11
BOW RIVER NETWORKS Inc.
Director of Design / Office Management
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ART DIRECTOR: Concept to Completion Graphic-Web Development Projects | Digital Photo Collages | Typography
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WEB | GRAPHIC DESIGN w ADOBE Software - Presentations | Charts |Proposals| Branding | Banners Brain Storming and Creating Digital Paintings
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Video Production – Produced | Directed using 3 Cameras and Soul Editor | Credits and Shot On Location - setup and tear down
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Digital Photography – Product Layout and Display (s)
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SCANNING – Photo Editing, Downloading, and File Management​
HIGHLIGHTS
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PIGGY BACK on SCO Virus Attack of the "My DOOM Virus in 2003; by coming up with the IDEA of Creating an additional website that created TRAFFIC FLOW of 150,000 hits and eventually 1,000,000 hits in a month!
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LOGO Enhancement: American Ethanol ‘adopted’ the NEW LOOK!
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Western Electrical Logo Improvement/Site
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2005-2007
CBE - Calgary Board of Education
Online Technical Course Developer / Repository Editor
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Created FLASH pieces instructed one-on-one with the Teachers for their online course development
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Banner Creation, FLASH Animated Charts, JAVA Applets Static Graphics for Lessons / Educational Online Courses
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Record Sound in conjunction with developed FLASH pieces, video shoots for online lessons; post to D2L server
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Created Content Packages for the LOR (Learning Object Repository) using Meta-Data Tagging | SCORM practices
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HIGHLIGHTS
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Took initiative and acquired 3 e-PD Certificates (100 hours) through CBE in addition to an Advanced Action Scripting Course @ U of C
1999-2002
CITY of CALGARY
Digital Editor - Library Archives and Program Director Assistant
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Program Director PPT presentations (Japan Tour / Ottawa) - MLA’s - Program Assistant – PPT / DTP / Booklets
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Designed pamphlets, booklets and developed presentations for the said people, Staff and Alderman
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Scanned: Color | Gray Scale, Pictures, Line Art, and Maps. At times, piecing LARGE format images for the Library Archives
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B & W Photo Editing (very dark conditions) – Transformed DARK IMAGE SLIDES; converted to PDF’s (3,000 in 3 months)
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Developed Reports for Department Heads – Judy Bader, Directors – Ron Greene, Supervisor(s), MLA meetings | minutes
HIGHLIGHTS
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Created PPT slideshows for Director Judy Bader as she Toured ‘Japan’ / Parliament Building for Government in Ottawa , Ontario
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Amazing transformation of 3,000 slides; and created a CATALOGING SYSTEM to track House Inspection Division!
