elli slavitch

LEEROY is an award-winning creative agency focused on branding, web development and digital marketing. This role concentrates on digital project management, product design, client relations, content integration and quality assurance in deliverables. The Assistant Project Manager uses project management tools (Wrike, Jira, Asana, Zeplin and InVision) to create, delegate and monitor tasks for front-end designers and back-end developers. The role requires a working proficiency in French, the ability to multitask, great interpersonal skills, a UX mindset and a curiosity for recent innovations in technology and design.

The Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Montreal (CRIEM/CIRM) is the hub which connects McGill to Montreal. This was a part-time contract during studies. Work involved creating a communications plan, redesigning the centre's website, managing a social media team and designing media (magazines, booklets, presentations) with various institutions (such as Le Quartier d'Innovation and Entremise) to promote projects which bring McGill to greater Montreal. See my work here: https://www.ellislavitch.com/cirm

INBO is a transformation consultancy that partners with disruption leaders and organizations to redesign new ways of working. It offers services in strategic visioning, learning experience, organization design, platform development, team building, and more. This role focuses on developing INBO's creative strategy. Work involves strategic planning, institutionalizing design processes, project management, facilitation, communications, client relations, website maintenance as well as proposal, RFP and report development.

The Clothes Secret is a local consignment boutique in Ottawa, ON. For this role, responsibilities included writing and implementing yearly communications plans, directing photoshoots with staff and store products, scheduling posts, creating an Instagram community and reaching over 5000 followers on Facebook by the end of summer 2017.

The First-Year Office is McGill's communications hub for incoming first-year students. I produced the university’s outreach to 7900+ incoming undergraduate students over the summer of 2018. Work involved integrating communications through newsletters, social media, webinars, presentations and print publications, and designing a new strategy for 2019. It required a concrete grasp of Adobe platforms such as InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator and Connect. See my work here: www.ellislavitch.com/first-year-office

The Students’ Society of McGill University (SSMU) is McGill's undergraduate student union. I reported to the Senior Graphic Designer and produced graphics (posters, banners, and logos) for events and promotions.

* The McGill Tribune is the independent, student-run newspaper at McGill University. * I managed a team of designers, web developers, photographers and videographers while directing the production of weekly content for print and digital editions. * Personal projects: * Visually integrating platforms: Redesigning all print and digital media for a consistent and captivating brand experience. * Institutionalizing the Tribune brand into a visual style guide. * Creating a series of free skills-based creative and technology workshops. Workshops garnered the interest of up to 700 individuals and rooms reached maximum capacity. * See my work here: * www.ellislavitch.com/mcgill-tribune

The International Student Network (ISN) is the group which represents students studying abroad at the University of Amsterdam (UvA). Ambassadors receive training in intercultural communication, leadership, conflict management, and more. I helped create an online magazine for incoming and outgoing exchange students and designed a communications plan for the promotion of newsletters sent to prospective exchange students from around the world.

Layout design (for both print and digital editions), concept brainstorming, photo research, web graphic design, illustration and craft production. Responsibilities also include writing feature spreads, creating and managing a new cartoon section, managing illustrators and cooperating with a team of editors in an intense, fast-paced work environment. Personal projects: 1) Running the integrated marketing communications for the TPS and DPS Journalism and Media Conference. 2) Creating a cartoon section.

Reported to the Design Editor and Creative Director of The McGill Tribune and produced weekly illustrations.

Activities and Societies: Visual Arts Society, McGill Tribune, Folio Magazine