Meres Weche

- Responsible for the daily editorial programming of Canada’s #1 portal in both English and French. Specifically MSN Today and the Popular Searches module on the French homepage of http://sympatico.msn.ca

- Use creative writing skills to optimize headlines and web content for maximum user interaction.

- Achieved highest monthly visitors record in MSN Today history for French Canadian market.

- Was given responsibility to temporarily replace homepage editor during absence.

- Interact with channel managers and editors from various departments and countries.

Founder and Executive Director of Culture Shox Media. Publishing four websites:

http://www.toronto-franco.com

Toronto-based French community web-magazine

http://www.afrotoronto.com

Toronto-based African-Canadian web-magazine

http://www.afrogotham.com

Afro culture web-magazine

http://www.worldagesarchive.com

Academic website focusing on ancient world studies, history and modern cultural theory.

- Responsible for the daily updating and content management of all websites.

- Work with HTML editors, MyPHP and SQL database through a content management system (Joomla CMS) to create and update websites.

- Assigning stories to group of a dozen international freelance writers.

- Responsible for editing and proofreading writer submissions in both French and English.

- Regularly write concise and effective articles, advertorials and press releases for publication.

- Coordinate sales efforts to maximize revenue through e-commerce partnerships (affiliate programs) with many major brands and corporations. Created and maintaining online shopping malls on websites.

- Maintain career page on websites through CareerBuilder.com co-branding partnership by promoting job postings and searches on sites.

- Maintain relationships with industry publicists in Toronto and the U.S. for consistent coverage of film festivals, theatre shows, book launches and more.

- Strong knowledge and familiarity with national multi-cultural arts scene.

- Daily tracking of website visitor traffic and trends. Thrive to find new ways to increase visitor traffic and website efficiency based on stats reports.

- Responsible for weekly and monthly maintenance, reporting and analysis of accounting ledgers. Maintain relationships with Quebec and national vendors/ clients through management of specific commercial leasing industry programs.

- Act as back-up for accounts payable unit manager, supervising staff of two.