Bob Cross is an experienced association manager and website developer. He is the past Director of Design with the National Museums Corporation of Canada, an accomplished writer and past editor of Engineering Careers in Canada, Canadian Consumer and the Journal of Food Science.  A graduate in Science from the Royal Military College of Canada, his post-university education has included MBA courses at the University of Ottawa and technical courses at Algonquin College.  He has over 20 years of experience in national associations at the executive level and is bilingual. He acts as Executive Director for several national organizations and manages their day-to-day operations.
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Meghan Howard is a professional writer and editor with almost 15 years of experience in journalism and public relations. She is the editor of Veritas magazine, the bilingual alumni magazine of the Royal Military College of Canada. Meghan is experienced in website layout and writing and she is the Assistant Executive Director for one of our large association clients. She is past editor of Nepean This Week, and has worked for newspapers across the Ottawa Valley. She has a Bachelor of Journalism Honours degree from Carleton University where she was the recipient of a four-year Ottawa Citizen Scholarship. To read her column, Spinning Your Web, click HERE.

Bonnie James has over 16 years experience in accounting, coordinating and managing associations, societies and foundations. She currently acts as the Executive Director for two client associations managed by Megram. Bonnie has completed a career development program in technology skills and enrolled in the third year of the Certified General Accounting program. Additionally, she is a graduate from Algonquin College diploma program in Advanced Interior Design. She directly supervises the work of three staff members.

Connie Roffey's strong background in banking and real-estate is an invaluable resource to her job as the Canadian National Fieldwork Placement Services Coordinator for Occupational Therapy Canadian and International. She also assists Bonnie in recording donations to the Canadian Engineering Memorial Foundation including the issuance of tax receipts and Letters of Trust. She also does the bookkeeping for two associations.

Julie MacDougall is a professional Administrative Assistant, bringing over 13 years administrative experience to our organization. In the position of Association Manager, Julie provides administrative support to a number of associations with her knowledge as a Microsoft Office Specialist as well as her strong organizational and communication skills. Julie has worked as a freelance administrative assistant, as well as with a large international construction company in Ottawa and two Ottawa printing companies. Her previous background in the printing industry is a valuable resource for proofreading, layout and design concepts.

Jill White joined Megram in 2007. Her responsibilities include maintaining current websites, designing and building websites for new clients, as well as assisting in the layout of some of our client publications. Her knowledge and ability to work with several design and publishing programs is a great asset to our company. Her experience in ad building and layout as well as her constant communication with other designers helps her to bring new and fresh ideas to our work.

Amanda Dupuis joined Megram at the beginning of April after spending one year as a reporter at a weekly community newspaper in western Quebec where she won two QCNA awards for her writing skills. She obtained her journalism diploma from Algonquin College in Ottawa. Amanda assists Meghan with editorial work and communications projects and also acts as an administrative assistant for one of the associations we manage.

Kaitlin Ciphery joined Megram in May 2008 for the summer to be followed by part-time work until she graduates in Advertising from Algonquin College in April 2009. She will be responsible to Meghan for advertising sales and layout for our clients with websites and publications and she will assist Bonnie in managing an association client.

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Richard Eady is our part-time programmer and helps Graeme maintain our four off-site servers. He is an expert in Access databases, e-commerce programming and various other back-end custom code work that our clients require.

Graeme Cross is a qualified IT technologist who works part-time keeping our computers, equipment and servers running smoothly. In addition, he also has a Diploma in Advertising from Loyalist College where he majored in graphic design, illustration and photographic rendering.

Ian Howard is a professional photographer and graphic designer for magazines and sales catalogues and is known for his expertise in Photoshop. He is responsible for the design and layout of publications on a part-time basis, including Veritas Magazine. He has a Diploma in Photojournalism from Loyalist College and a BA in Mass Communication from Carleton University.