Bio

Dougal Bichan has many years of experience producing, directing and developing projects in a variety of media, new and old. This has included photography, video production, Web sites, CD-ROM, and live presentations.

History highlights

Dougal & Co. Inc., owner 1988 - present
specialising in multi-media production (meetings, videos, interactive presentations) for a variety of clients including corporations, government and associations, The Canadian Congress of Advertising, IBM and Mary Kay Cosmetics among others

e. o. b. inc, partner - current
Incorporated in 1999, eye of the beholder creates marketing, communications and eCommerce solutions for clients with an emphasis on new media. Clients include Seneca College, the Advanced Design and Manufacturing Institute, Nextus Bio Consulting and Spar Aerospace Limited.

GreyInteractive, co-founder and vice-president, 1995 - 2000
New Media developer and co-founder of GreyInteractive, division of Grey Canada offering interactive marketing services, CD-ROM and World Wide Web sites, consulting in new media development

Seneca College School of Communication Arts, part-time faculty, 1995 - 2000
Responsible for teaching interactive multimedia design and production to third and fourth semester students to develop application for the World Wide Web and CD-ROM

Dougal Bichan Productions. 1975 - 1988
freelance designer, director, producer, photographer, and programmer for various including a wide variety of corporations, advertising agencies, audio-visual communication companies

Legendrama Productions, 1970 - 1975 producer, photographer, co-owner
Responsible for many large-screen multi-image 'spectaculars' as producer/photographer

Accomplishments

Dougal Bichan is currently working on several interactive corporate communications initiatives for Seneca College including: a complete redesign of the public Web site, promoting the Superbuild campaign, CareerLink - an online job posting system, and an online case management system, publishing KnitNet, a Web based magazine, developing several documentary ideas and exhibiting personal photography

Dougal Bichan has designed and managed multi-media events incorporating video, live performers, lighting, lasers, sound, staging, supporting visuals and print production, as well as design and creation of Web sites and interactive computerized multimedia presentations for 30 years, primarily for corporate clients.

A good example of this is a recent project for the Professional Engineers Ontario and National Engineering Week. It included the production and coordination of simultaneous live shows at the three science centres in Toronto, Ottawa and Sudbury, a Web site featuring a live Web cast of the show, a 20 minute video, and several print promotional pieces. The video that Dougal directed for that event — Fessie and the Kid — won awards of merit in both the Canadian and American 2001 corporate television awards and was aired on TVO.

In 1995, Dougal Bichan, worked with Grey Canada to help start one of the first advertising agency interactive divisions in Toronto - GreyInteractive and continued to collaborate with them for the next four years. Projects included corporate video productions, TV commercials, live events, Web sites and interactive multimedia.

Between 1988 and 1995, Dougal produced and directed

• numerous projects for IBM Canada Ltd., including four major Customer Conferences attended by 500-1200 people at the Bassett Theatre, le Parc and the Constellation Hotel, as well as numerous Manager's meetings and Year-Beginning meetings across Canada. Productions included speaker support, guest speakers, multi-image programs, live and recorded video, live performers, Vari-lights, lasers and indoor pyro
• many live awards presentations, including the first Cassies awards, five Dora Mavor Moore Awards, two Promo Awards, two CAPIC Awards, the Billi Awards, and the Marcees awards.
• the first Canadian Congress of Advertising, a three day conference at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre including: video theme statement introductions, multimedia presentations, live video
• all on-screen visuals produced for three major three-day seminars for Mary Kay Cosmetics at the O'Keefe Centre, as well as three smaller Career Conferences that travelled to 12 cities across Canada.

Taught a multimedia production course at Seneca College, School of Communication Arts for 5 years, 1995 to 2000

Other notable accomplishments, prior to 1988, include

• Produced and directed a video for the Toronto Public Library to promote literacy by reading to children.
• Photography for a book Nurse, published to commemorate the 75th. Anniversary of the Registered Nurses Association of Ontario.
• Shot and edited a documentary The Suffragists, After a Century for the FWTAO