About

How StationV came to be

StationV was born in 2005 just after my 29 year career as a teacher and Music and Arts Coordinator. I was eager to keep using my skills in technology, marketing, writing and graphic design. A few years before this departure, I had created a website for a family reunion. That experience was more rewarding than I could have imagined. Who knew it would lead to a new career.

Website design requires a wide variety of skills and I happened to be passionate about the most important ones - design, technology and marketing. Learning about search engine optimization, style sheets and coding came easy to me. I became obsessed with reading and watching YouTube videos about all aspects of web design. After only a short time, I was on my way to creating a relationship with over fifty clients.

As web design continues to evolve, my learning and enthusiasm continues to grow.

Education

• Certificate in Commercial Art from Assiniboine Community College, Brandon MB

• BMus from Brandon University, Brandon, Manitoba

• Pre Masters in Education from University of Manitoba, Winnipeg

• Over 20 hours of marketing, branding and communications workshops, courses and seminars.

• Continuous research and study of current trends in website & graphic design, copywriting, and marketing.

Experience

SQUARESPACE WEBSITE DESIGN

Since discovering the Squarespace platform in 2012, I have been reading blogs, watching videos, taking online workshops and exploring the extensive possibilities that this content management system has to offer.

VOLUNTEER WORK ON BOARDS & COMMITTEES

Manitoba Choral Association
Marketing and Communications Chair
Webmaster, graphics and email blast coordinator

Manitoba LGBT* Chamber of Commerce
Communications

Rainbow Harmony Project
External Communications & Fundraising

Winnipeg Singers
Marketing

Rainbow Resource Centre
Finding Rainbows Summit 2017, Marketing Chair

West Broadway Community Organization
Housing Stakeholders Committee - Resident representative

Balmoral Spence Neighbours Association
Secretary & Communications

OUTWORDS MAGAZINE

• Website Manager - paid position

• Google Apps Administrator

WORKSHOPS GIVEN

(SEE LIST IN THE SIDEBAR)

• Marketing – More than a poster

• Website Tips

CHOIR DIRECTOR

• Rainbow Harmony Project (11 years)

• Assiniboine Chapter of Sweet Adelines International (25 years)

• First Unitarian Universalist Church of Winnipeg (2 years)

• St. James-Assiniboia School Division Senior Chamber Choir (16 years)

BIOGRAPHY

I started my musical career as a self taught piano/organ player performing in community dance bands in the area surrounding Waskada, Manitoba. After just a couple years of studying piano and voice in my late teens, I began my formal music education at Brandon University and obtained a bachelor's degree in Music Education. I also hold a certificate in Commercial Art from Assiniboine Community College and a pre-masters certificate in Education (drama) from the University of Manitoba. My professional career began teaching general and choral music and art in The St. James-Assiniboia School Division in Winnipeg, MB and over the years spanned grades 1 through 12.

June of 2005 marked the end of my 29-year career with The St. James-Assiniboia School Division - 13 years as a teacher, 14 years as Music Coordinator along with teaching choral music and art at Silver Heights Collegiate and directing the award-winning St. James-Assiniboia Divisional Senior Chamber Choir, and 2 years as Coordinator of the Arts.

I have performed as a singer with Up With People, Rainbow Stage, the Bunch of Grapes, Sundog Productions, Brandon University Chorale and the Brandon Philharmonic Choir. In addition to the many school choirs, musicals, and productions, I have directed the following community choirs:  Assiniboine Chapter of Sweet Adelines, First Unitarian Universalist Church of Winnipeg's Choir, Provincial Honour Choirs' Junior, Women's and High School Choirs, and the Rainbow Harmony Project choir. 

I continue to work as a choral clinician and volunteer on boards and committees of choral, lgbt+, and community organizations. In addition, I created a website design company called StationV.com which is very rewarding and has become my major focus.

I live in downtown Winnipeg in a modernized Victorian home with my partner, Pieter Jongbloed.