
July 12, 2019
Steelcon - New Logo
Steelcon needed a fresh new look, and the first step was a new logo.
Point of view:
Find the will. The way will follow.
Boards/committees chaired: | 3 |
Industry experience: | 33+ |
Hole in ones: | 1 |
Countries visited: | 18 |
Scuba dives: | 50 |
Vinyl albums: | 251 |
Speeding tickets: | 10 (and counting) |
Kids fostered: | 2 |
Point of view:
To push the boundaries, you have to set them first.
First cell phone: | 1989 |
First discovered the joy of SEO: | 1994 |
Average work day: | 12 hours |
Industry experience: | 22+ years |
Uber rating: | 4.83 |
Plaid shirts: | 27 |
Record hair length: | 14” |
Magazine-cover features: | 1 |
Point of view:
People aren’t numbers. Except sometimes when they are.
Finance vs IT duties: | 50/50 |
IT disasters: | 0 |
Industry experience: | 15+ |
Books going at any given time: | 10-12 |
F1 Grand Prix races attended: | 10 |
Races with a cop: | 1 |
Tickets from racing with a cop: | 1 |
Dojo visits per week: | 5 |
Point of view:
I’d rather be looking at it than looking for it.
Awards won: | 207 |
Industry experience: | 25+ |
Ski hills carved: | 103 |
Quarterback jersey numbers: | 7, 12, 14 |
Longest sailing trip: | 2 weeks |
Baseball hats: | 24 |
Car/boat engines blown: | 2 |
Road trips to Schwartz’s Deli: | 6 |
Point of view:
The secret to loving what you do is to do what you love.
Total clients: | 35+ |
Industry experience: | 12+ |
Countries visited: | 25 |
Top sky-diving height: | 12,000’ |
Lowest cave explored: | 24’ |
Shoes owned: | 51 |
Reality TV shows following: | 20 |
Daily alarm snoozes: | 3 |
Point of view:
The best thing to learn is how to learn.
Brands worked on: | 20+ |
Industry experience: | 15+ |
World stamps: | 1,092 |
Longest party marathon: | 14 days |
Fear of rollercoasters: | 10/10 |
Rollercoasters survived: | 4 |
Badminton championships won: | 1 |
Book collection: | 116 |
Point of view:
Don’t just be friendly, be user friendly.
Websites created: | 107 |
Industry experience: | 14+ |
Radio contests won: | 3 |
Photoshoots conducted: | 112 |
Rattlesnake encounters: | 3 |
First concert (The Spoons): | 13 years old |
Star Wars marathons: | 10 |
Longest road trip: | 3,953 km |
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Salary Range: Commensurate with experience.
Location: Toronto’s Junction Triangle or our downtown office.
Only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.
Detailed Job Description:
Associate Creative Director of Art – CRM (Direct Mail/Email)
Responsibilities:
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What you’ll do:
Who you are:
Requirements:
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Salary Range: Commensurate with experience.
Location: Toronto’s Junction Triangle or our downtown office.
Only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.
Detailed Job Description:
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Responsibilities:
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What you’ll do:
Who you are:
Requirements:
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Salary Range: Commensurate with experience.
Location: Toronto’s Junction Triangle or Downtown office.
Only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.
Detailed Job Description:
Account Director – CRM (Direct Mail/Email)
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Responsibilities
Professional Skills:
Requirements:
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Salary Range: Commensurate with experience.
Location: Toronto’s Junction Triangle or Downtown office.
Only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.
Detailed Job Description:
Account Supervisor – CRM (Direct Mail/Email)
Mandate: Lead all day-to-day aspects of the client’s business.
Responsibilities:
Staff Supervision:
Professional Skills:
Interpersonal Skills:
Requirements:
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Salary Range: Commensurate with experience.
Location: Toronto’s Junction Triangle or our downtown office.
Only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.
Detailed Job Description:
Account Executive – CRM (Direct Mail/Email)
Mandate: Assist in all day-to-day aspects of the client’s business.
Responsibilities:
Skills and Qualifications:
Professional Skills:
Interpersonal Skills:
Requirements:
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Salary Range: Commensurate with experience.
Location: Toronto’s Junction Triangle or our downtown office.
Only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.
Detailed Job Description:
Account Coordinator
Mandate: Assist in all day-to-day aspects of the client’s business.
Responsibilities:
Skills and Qualifications:
Candidate must possess the following:
This Policy describes the practices regarding personal information collected by the Junction59 Ltd. (“Junction59”, “we” or “us”) through our website(s) (currently, Junction59.ca) (“Websites”) when you sign up for, use, access or otherwise interact with the Websites.
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Third Party Personal Information. From time to time our Websites may also collect personal information about third parties that you can supply in accordance with applicable laws. For instance, this may be the email address of someone you wish to inform about a document or promotion on our Websites that we may contact in accordance with applicable laws.
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Personal information will only be collected, used and shared for the purposes identified at the time of collection or as outlined in this Policy. Except as described in this Section, we do not exchange, sell, rent or distribute your personal information for any purpose.
As Requested by You. We may use the information you provide about yourself to fulfill your requests for our products, programs, and services, to respond to your inquiries about our offerings, for you to participate in contests or market research, or to contact you about your account with us.
Marketing. We may use your information to communicate with you, such as to notify you about new products, programs or services, and to offer you other products, programs or services that we believe may be of interest to you, provided we have your consent to do so. Your consent to use or share your personal information for these purposes are optional and is not required as a condition of using the Websites. If you do not want your personal information to be used or shared for these additional purposes, please contact the Junction59 Privacy Office at the address set out below.
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User Generated Content. User generated content posted through the Websites such as product reviews, commentary on discussion boards or blogs, and certain social networking preferences (e.g. pages you “Like” or “Recommend”) may be accessible by other consumers and companies and may appear on other websites or web searches, and therefore this information could be read, collected, and used by others. Junction59 cannot ensure the privacy of any user information included in that user generated content.
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Export of Personal Information. Your personal information may be processed and stored in the United States or other countries and may be accessible to the United States or other country’s government, courts or law enforcement or regulatory agencies through their laws.
How Junction59 Safeguards Your Information
Protection of Your Information. Junction59 takes precautions to secure your personal information and protect it from loss, theft, unauthorized access, destruction, use, modification, and disclosure. Such measures include technological, physical and organizational safeguards that are appropriate given the sensitivity of the personal information, including maintaining controlled access to electronic and paper documents and files, using appropriate technology safeguards such as passwords, firewalls and encryption, and restricting access to those of our employees, representatives and subcontractors who need to know such information to provide you with the services for which the information was collected. However, please note that Junction59’s security measures may change or be unavailable from time to time and no data transmission over the Internet or any wireless network is 100% secure, so we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information.
Retention. Junction59 keeps your personal information only for as long as necessary to accomplish the identified purposes, and then securely destroys such information.
Cookies and Web Beacons
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Use of Cookies and Beacons. We use cookies and beacons to understand site usage and to improve the content and offerings on our sites. For example, we may use cookies and beacons to personalize your experience at the Websites (e.g., to recognize you by name when you return to a Website). We also may use cookies and beacons to offer you products, programs, or services in accordance with this Policy. We may use third party cookies on our Websites as well. For instance, we use Google Analytics to collect and process certain analytics data. Google provides some additional privacy options described at www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/ regarding Google Analytics cookies. Cookies and beacons can be removed or blocked in accordance with your browser’s specifications, but in doing so the Websites may have more limited services.
Feedback, Inquiries and Complaints – Privacy Officer
If there is a concern or complaint about this Policy or your personal information, or if you wish to update or correct your information, you may contact Junction59 Privacy Officer at the following address:
Privacy Officer
c/o Junction59
Daniel DiStefano
158 Sterling Road, 8th Floor
Toronto, ON M6R 2B2
Junction59 will respond to all inquiries, complaints or requests to access or revise personal information within a reasonable time. Junction59 will investigate all complaints received in a reasonable time frame and the Company will take all reasonable and appropriate measures as it determines is required to respond to any and all well founded complaints. The Company reserves the right to charge a reasonable fee in connection with complying with all lawful and permitted access requests.