SUSAN F. JANZEN
Certificate of MultiMedia Production (VFS)
Dipl. BusAdmin. (NAIT), Dipl. Design Arts (Grant MacEwan)
CONTACT/PERSONAL
E-mail: susan@vfs.com
Birth date: 19/09/56
Web site: http://www.vfs.com/~sjanzen
Citizenship: Canadian
POSITIONS HELD
05/99 - Present: Web Specialist,
Westech Information Systems
Working within the Web Design department, this position is responsible for Internet and Intranet web design, development, maintenance and consultation for a variety of Westech clients.
06/97 - 04/99: Website Administrator,
Vancouver Film School
Responsible for the management and administration of all web site projects representing VFS. Production responsibilities include but are not limited to promotion, supervision and maintenance of the VFS web site (http://www.vfs.com). Additional duties include desktop production of various print materials for the VFS Marketing Department, including design and layout of the VFS newsletter >/SPLICE/<.
02/89-04/95: Public Affairs Assistant,
University of Calgary
This position is in charge of Events Information Services and Desktop Publishing for the Public Affairs Office at U of C. Responsible for compiling and maintaining comprehensive listings of events on campus. Desktop publishing responsibilities include the production of event calendars for campus community and public use, weekly production of the faculty/staff newspaper THE GAZETTE, production of the U of C research magazine CATALYST, production of SPEAKING OF EXPERTS for media reference use, IDEABANK newsletter for the on-campus marketing group, and assorted informational brochures for individual campus groups and organizations. This work includes extensive involvement in production design, layout and paste-up.
02/88-04/88: Production Secretary, Dept. of Drama,
University of Calgary
A term relief appointment, duties include production of posters and programs for Departmental showings, maintaining schedules and room bookings, ordering textbooks.
09/83-01/88: Receptionist and Program Assistant,
Vancouver Community College
Primarily responsible for public information service and directing inquiries at the King Edward Campus of VCC, as well as general office duties. Also assisted with registration of students, receipt of payment and office accounting. Campus First Aid Attendant during evening and night classes (Industrial First Aid Certification "A").
EDUCATION
Vancouver Film School, Multimedia Production Program
(1995-96)
Graduated with "Award of Excellence" for academic standing.
Courses of study include: Macromedia Director, MS Word, Excel, Project Management, Marketing, The Internet, HTML, Adobe Photoshop, Fractal Painter, Animator Pro, 3-D Studio, MIDI, Digital Audio Production, Video Production, Digital Non-linear Video Editing and FX, Communications.
Simon Fraser University, Bachelor of Administrative Management Program (1986-91)
Completed second year of the program, including self-directed distance education.
Courses of study include: Managerial Accounting, Statistics, Organizational Behaviour, Intro Computer Programming, History of Economic Thought.
Northern Alberta Institute of Technology, Business Administration Program (1981-83)
Grant MacEwan College, Design Arts Program (1975-1977)
SOFTWARE/HARDWARE
Currently use: PC, Flat-bed Scanner, Hi8 Camera
Currently use: Adobe Photoshop 5.0, Adobe PageMaker 6.5, Dreamweaver 2.0,
Adobe Acrobat Distiller, HotDog Pro v2.53, Eudora Light 1.5.4 (32), Microsoft
Word 7.0a, Site Sweeper 2.0, Netscape Communicator 4.5, Netscape Navigator
Gold 3.01Gold, Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0, WS_FTP95, Telnet, Windows
95, Microsoft Excel 7.0
Have had exposure to: Fractal Painter, Flash, Image Ready, Fireworks,
Adobe Premier, Macromedia Director, Shockwave, Quicktime3, Adobe Acrobat
CONFERENCES ATTENDED
Web Design ’98, Seattle WA
Thunder Lizard Productions
June 29, 30 & July 1
AWARDS/RECOGNITION
Web Marketing Association Best School Site WebAward 1998: VFS
Web Site.
Snap Editors' Choice, 1998: VFS
Cybrary Web Site.
The Web Design WOW! Book (1998), Chapter 2: An Interface Check
List Gallery: VFS Web Site.
PERSONAL NOTES
I produced a crossword styled biography for my portfolio presentation
at VFS Multimedia in April of 1996. If you would like to see the shocked
version of that Macromedia Director project, click
here but please be patient while the shockwave file loads.
References available on request.