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Marlene Lacey

Location
lethbridge, AB (CA)
Work Category
Professional Services
Interests
Business partnerships, Job opportunities, References, Ways to stay in touch
Currently working on...
writing "Step to Success"
working on Artists for Peace - the Lily Project - looking for artistic contributors for the multimedia publication (ref: http://a4peace.ning.com)
updating client websites

About Me

Art and Creative Writing Projects:

My artistic inspirations come from experience in the Maritimes and western Canadian provinces—memories and feelings filter into my work in an intuitive haptic fashion. It is the essence of my experiences that I strive for. I balance actual images with pictorial values using colour and light to paint emotional expressions.

Technical Projects:

I enjoy nerdy, geeky projects which require a strong focus on details balanced with ergonomic, green-inspired constraints developing products that inspire and communicate healthy, peaceful living and motivate creativity.

Work Experience

  • 2001 - present
    lethbridge, AB (CA)
    Director
    Blue Grama Publications Corp.
    Began inter-media publishing company, continued computer and Internet support. Layout, book cover or publishing contract projects with a variety of Canadian publishers (Ekstasis, Black Moss, Thistledown, Exile Editions), government departments (AB justice, agriculture) and individual authors, artists and musicians.
  • 1994 - 2001
    lethbridge, AB (CA)
    partner
    Professional Informatics (PI)
    Information Technology, Computer, Internet and software support, multimedia development and training, graphic art and services.

  • Jul 1993 - Jan 1994
    lethbridge, AB (CA)
    technical writer
    Accounting Firm
    Time Watch software, user-interface design consulting, technical writing
  • Jul 1984 - Nov 1992
    lethbridge, AB (CA)
    technical writer/instructor
    The University of Lethbridge
    Computing Services Department: newsletter editor, mainframe support, User Services, SPSS and Scribe database manager & consultant (statistics and pre-press software); Assessed instructional needs, developed, organized, scheduled, publicized and delivered seminars, workshops, and other types of in-service computing courses, wrote user and administrational manuals working with database and software developers, help desk support and administration, organized and developed online help libraries for the wide-range of academic software.

Education

  • 1980 - present
    Other - self-improvement and interests
    workshops and courses
    2001–present - a large number of webinars, particularly for IT, publishing and business
    1994 - PROJECT MANAGEMENT, Lethbridge, AB, Critical Path Project Management
    1992 - STRATEGIC INFLUENCE, Calgary, AB, Anthony Robbins.
    1983 - Grant McEwan College, Edmonton, AB, PROGRAM ANALYSIS OF SOCIAL SERVICE SYSTEMS (PASS)
    1980 - H&R BLOCK, Lethbridge, AB, Tax Preparation

  • 1994 - 1994
    Other - WHMIS
    St. John's Ambulance
    WHMIS Instructor Certificate
    1977 /1990 First Aid Certificates
  • 1981 - 1983
    Bachelor's - Education - Mathematics major
    The University of Lethbridge
  • 1972 - 1972
    Other - Education - Mathematics major
    Simon Fraser University
    Jan – Dec. 1972 B.C. Teacher's Certification professional development semesters I and II.
  • 1968 - 1970
    Other - Mathematics
    University of British Columbia
    Faculty of Science - Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics

Courses & Certifications

a wide variety of tutorials, self-directed learning and training.

Clubs & Organizations

CIRA, AAC

Hobbies & Interests

Creative: photography, film, audio and video production, writing, graphics, handmade paper, illustration; Analytical/Technical: philosophy, sociology, mathematics, technology, Alexander technique, TED.