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Marc Bélanger ©2008
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CAREER OBJECTIVE
To pursue a Communication career in an innovative and dynamic environment, allowing me to use my full creative potential. To learn new skills and apply them creatively. To eventually manage the graphical and functional design of large scope projects, involving various technologies, media and audiences.
ATTRIBUTES
- Broad knowledge of Web design, graphic production and scripting
- Very good knowledge of networking protocols and operating systems interconnectivity
- Vast experience of desktop publishing
- Strong artistic background
- Fluently bilingual
- Resolute, meticulous and respectful of deadlines
- Excellent writing and communication skills
- Accustomed and favourable to big projects and team work
DEMONSTRATED ACHIEVEMENTS
Web Design & Programming
I began web design in 1995, as part of the SchoolNet team (sponsored by Industry Canada), and never stopped since... Being an experienced desktop publisher, I also did other works – printed material, illustration, watercolor, cartoon, etc. – to complement these web sites.
Most of the projects I was involved in were sponsored by or made for public institutions and intended for a large audience. Strict guides and regulations regarding design and accessibility had to be applied, namely in terms of:
- W3C compliant HTML, CSS and Javascripts (works on ALL browsers and platforms);
- legibility (for alternative browsers), typography (scalable fonts, accentuated characters);
- localization (commuting between English/French and sometimes other languages, like Spanish);
- re-usable designs (modularity, usage of templates, server-side includes, etc.).
Over the years, I had to work on various server platforms using different database server-client architectures, for example:
- Windows (Server 2000 & 2003), Sun Solaris and Linux (Apache);
- Perl, ColdFusion, .Net (asp/aspx, vbscript) and PHP/MySQL.
I am a strong advocate of OSS and my platform of choice is Gnu/Linux – I am currently running Ubuntu 7.10 on my 2 personal computers. In my present work I use an iMac running OsX 10 (Tiger). I also use Windows (XP & Server2003) through virtualization using Parallels on the Mac and VirtualBox on Ubuntu.
Teaching and Education
I taught web design and other computer courses (MS-Office, operating systems and Javascript) for a year and have been involved on numerous occasions in didactic projects for the Web. I am very interested by the teaching potential of the web and the design possibilities it creates.
Art
I use various techniques, such as watercolor and inks, pastel, charcoal and pencil (visit the Gallery and Folio sections for more).
- Exhibitions: watercolors, pastels and/or drawings:
- September 2000 at the Café des 4 Jeudis, in Hull (solo exhibition);
- October 2004 at the Centre Francophone de Toronto (solo exhibition);
- October 2005 at the Centre Francophone de Toronto (group exhibition).
- I illustrated 3 children books and various other teaching material for elementary school boards as well as for Language Training Canada;
- I always use original artworks as design elements in my web sites.
WORK EXPERIENCE
Bold Internet Solutions – Web Developer
Started Apr 2006 (Full-time Employee)
Comspec – Web-software QA
Jan 2005 to Mar 2006 (Full-time Employee)
IRSRC (Northern and Indian Affairs) – Desktop Publishing
May-Aug. 2003 (Agency)
Environment Canada – Web Developer
1998 to April 2003 (Contracts or Agencies)
La Cité Collégiale – Teaching
1996 to 1997 (Term teacher)
Language Training Canada – Desktop Publishing
1995 (Agency)
Ingenia - Schoolnet – Web Developer
1994 (Employee)
Communication Canada – Desktop Publishing
1991 to 1993 (Term)
EDUCATION
- DEC, Computer Science - CEGEP de l'Outaouais, 1990
- Bachelor in Fine Arts - University of Ottawa, 1985
- Museology (Algonquin College), 1987