Michael Bekiaris

Background

About Michael Bekiaris

A knowledge and communications professional with 18+ years of experience. Specialties include content creation for print and digital, web design and information architecture, employee/member communications and marketing, training for a broad range of stakeholders at all levels and deployment/adoption of national initiatives in the public and private sector. Management of national projects including stakeholder management and change management. Designed and executed multiple communication campaigns for internal and external audiences. Delivered training and site design services to both internal teams and their external clients to coordinate day-to-day activities and convey a professional brand. Experienced Photoshop and InDesign user whose work has included website wireframes, webpage mock ups, two/three column newsletters, multi-panel brochures and posters. Writing for business following Canadian Press (CP), Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) standards and Gender-based Analysis Plus (GBA+): Email announcements, speaking notes, newsletters, webinars and recorded video. Business Tools: SharePoint 2007/2010/2013, Wordpress, Adobe Creative Cloud, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Office 365, Trello, Confluence, Mailchimp, SalesForce. Enterprise and Public Social Networks: Tibbr, Jive, Yammer, Skype for Business/Microsoft Lync 2013, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest. Working knowledge of HTML, CSS, Java Script, XML, XSLT.