2007 - Present
Lead Sports Editor / Yahoo! Canada
As lead Sports Editor, I am the sole editor responsible for daily updates to all sections of Yahoo! Canada's sports site including headline writing and photo cropping. Also I liaise with the Front Page and Rogers Yahoo! teams for sports promotions on a daily basis. I also source new potential partners, work with sports engineers to test and troubleshoot problems, and work with Yahoo! Sales team to find new revenue opportunities.
I also work closely with Yahoo! Sports (.com) editorial by attending their editorial and All-hands meetings and liaise with their editors and bloggers everyday. I work with the Product Manager on a daily basis to grow and improve channel.
In 2008, I updated, maintained and managed the Beijing Summer Olympics site which saw Yahoo! Canada Sports uniques users and page view numbers increase dramatically.
I am currently involved in building Yahoo!'s Winter Olympic coverage for Vancouver 2010, FIFA 2010 Wold Cup coverage and expanding the sports staff.
Jul
2006 -
Apr
2008
Editor - News, Photos, Finance, Sports / Yahoo! Canada
During this time, I was a 'general' editor and worked within Sports, Finance, News, and Entertainment creating compelling headlines and managing the editorial relationship with various content partners including the Canadian Press, Forbes.com, Rogers media, Yahoo! Sports, etc.
As Photo Editor, I have increased the quality and quantity of news slide shows and managed partner relationship with Getty Images, iStock, Canadian Press, etc. I continue to train editors to create quality news slide shows.
As Local News and News Search editor, I have increased the number of sources within NSite and added Yahoo! Canada Sports news headlines into search results. Recently I have been assisting the Search team with the News Direct Display within Yahoo! Canada Search.
Other duties as Lead Editor include: training editors on various content management systems and tools; helping Managing Editor with bugs and troubleshooting problems; copy-editing all News and Finance headlines; assisting with management of existing and new content partners; attending and participating in daily editorial meetings and weekly Business Development/Product meetings; assisting Sports and Finance Product Manager with various product tasks; Acting Managing Editor as needed.
Jan
2006 -
Aug
2006
Freelance writer / Rogers Communications Inc.
Freelance writer (blogger) for FIFA World Cup site and Rogers TV.
Dec
2005 -
Jul
2006
Freelance Editor / Yahoo! Canada
Freelance Editor for FIFA World Cup, 2006 Winter Olympics, NHL playoffs.
Sept
2004 -
Jul
2006
Broadband Content Editor - Rogers Yahoo! / Yahoo! Canada
Created front page packages for portal and worked independently from home. Weekend and cover editor.
Jul
2003 -
Dec
2005
Freelance Web Designer and Web Consultant / Scotiabank
Developed and consulted on various internal sites for Scotiabank Human Resources, Executive Offices.
Dec
2002 -
2004
Freelance Editor / Sympatico.ca / MSN.ca
Freelance Editor working on Finance, News, Lifestyles and Holiday sites.
2000 -
2001
Web Content Manager/Producer / Sympatico.ca
Web Producer/Editor for Entertainment, Music, Sports, News, and Broadband verticals.
Launched and managed successful Sports and Music verticals.
Apr
1999 -
Jul
2000
Assistant Sound Engineer / Magnetic North Post Production Studios
Post-production sound editing and mixing for various TV shows and movie projects.
Jun
1998 -
Apr
1999
Teaching Assistant / Ontario Institute of Audio Recording Technology
Teaching assistant for the school. Also assistant audio recording engineer for Sound Works Studio.
Jan
1998 -
Jan
1999
Teaching Assistant and Assistant Audio Engineer / Ontario Institute of Audio