BIO:
Tutu Ilelaboye is a marketing and communications professional based in Winnipeg, Canada. She has developed her expertise within arts and cultural organizations, including the Winnipeg Folk Festival, Buffalo Gal Pictures, Global Television and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
Her professional education spans the areas of business, web design and graphic design. She holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) degree with a major in Marketing from the University of Manitoba and a Web Site Development Certificate with honours from Red River College of Applied Arts, Science and Technology.
Tutu is a pop culture enthusiast with an affinity for the arts. She has a particular penchant for music, live shows, film, the Cinematheque, television, new media and amateur photography.
WEB/GRAPHIC DESIGN SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE:
PC, Mac, MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access), Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Flash, Illustrator, InDesign, Acrobat Professional (creating and editing PDFs), Adobe Premiere (editing digital video for web), Website Content Management Systems, HTML, XHTML, DHTML, CSS, JavaScript, FTP, W3C web standards, SEO/SEM principles
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Experienced in website management, marketing/communications, project coordination/execution and volunteer/intern coordination within arts and cultural industries.
- Managing web-based projects - coordinating, populating, updating and maintaining websites and social networking pages in consultation with staff and third-party designers
- Creating and distributing communication pieces and correspondence
- Fielding media enquiries
- Researching and responding to internal and external requests for information and materials
- Ensuring accuracy and consistency of information delivered across multiple platforms
- Preparing and monitoring marketing plans, budgets and reports
- Preparing funding/grant applications and reports required for/after drawdown
- Coordinating elements to complete deliverables for projects
- Coordinating, attending and working at events
- Planning projects/activities for, training, supervising, tracking progress of and evaluating interns and volunteers
- Working closely with, reporting to and making recommendations to senior management
- Developing and maintaining positive relationships and interacting with staff, members of industry organizations, the general public and other stakeholders
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS:
- New Media Manitoba
- Canadian Women in Communications
- Arts & Cultural Industries Association of Manitoba
- Beta Gamma Sigma International Honour Society