CO-OPERATIVE EDUCATION: Interactive Arts & Technology
Interactive Media Designer
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Company Name: Intec Canada – Westcoast Development Centre
Contact: Miles Siu, WDC Project Manager
105 - 210 Great Northern Way, Vancouver, BC
Job Title: Interactive Media Designer
Company Description:
The Intec Westcoast Development Centre (WDC) is a software development facility in BC, specializing
in building on-demand solutions for customers across the country in variety of industries such as
banking, insurance, health, government, travel, transportation, and e-commerce. We help customers
revolutionize their businesses and build their competitive advantage.
Duties/Responsibilities:
 Design and develop multimedia applications
 Analyze requirements, create graphical content, and video and audio production
 Contribute to script development and revise content for online learning
Requirements/Qualifications:
 Completed a minimum of 2 years of their degree
 Excellent English grammar, writing and communication skills
 Background in graphic design, communications and authoring
 Experience in developing / producing multi media content design and develop multimedia
applications
 Ability to understand impact on layout
 Ability to develop layouts and templates for Flash and web pages
 Very strong creative, analytical and research skills
 Knowledge of information design and graphical design principles and technology trends
 Self-motivated, flexible and able to work with minimal guidance
 Experience with authoring tools such as Flash 8, Director and Dreamweaver
 Experience with design tools such as Illustrator, Photoshop and In Design
 Experience with web site creation tools such as Dreamweaver or Homesite and HTML to create
web content
 Experience with Java concepts, XML, Visio and Javascript would be an asset