Business Receipts

The good kind. We love helping our clients find their voice and connect with their audience. Check out some of our past projects below.

A handful of these projects predate Peniche Communications, completed while employed elsewhere or freelancing.

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🏅 2nd place, ACUHO-International

Dodge COVID: Crisis Communications Campaign

A dodgeball-themed COVID safety campaign for U of A residences — helped avoid an outbreak and support compliance sitewide.

23K+ page views / 6 mo.
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Ran two years running

Year-in-Review Crosswords

Proposed and built a year-end internal comms tactic for U of A: turn the year's key initiatives into a playable crossword, sent to ~16K employees — readers asked for more, so it became an annual tradition.

~2K unique plays, week one Sent to ~16K employees
Build your own crossword →
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Built from scratch

The Lunch Room

Built the Facilities and Operations department intranet from scratch using nothing but free tools — solving secure access, two-way employee engagement, and bulk documentation storage along the way.

HR's key resource during COVID Used free tools only
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Bylined feature

Woven Identities: A Feature Story

A bylined feature for The Quad on the "Woven Identities" exhibit — reporting and writing, start to finish, on Ghanaian and Guatemalan weaving traditions and the curators behind them.

Reporting and writing Published in The Quad
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🏅 IABC Edmonton Award

Residence First Year and Upper Year Landing Pages

Research and project management for two landing pages that changed how students found their next home on campus — much of the design is still in use today.

+50% page views +90% new users Still in use, 2026
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Still live, 2026

U of A Facilities Search (now Facilities and Building Hours)

A searchable facilities tool built for wayfinding across U of A's campuses — still one of the university's top-performing pages five years later.

Top-performing page, 2026 ~50% from organic search
See current page →
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Process improvement

IT Course Information Database

Brought in as support for IT course information at U of A, I proposed a more efficient alternative: bulk find-and-replace cleanup plus a searchable, filterable database of courses for teachers and researchers, all displayed online from a Google Sheet.

One source of truth Filterable and searchable
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Recreation Program Course Book

Designed the Campus and Community Recreation programs page, then built a spreadsheet-powered course book behind it — reportedly a big time-saver for program directors.

Saved program directors' time Spreadsheet-powered
Solution
Cross-project pattern

Database and Data Solutions

A thread running through several projects: turning scattered, hard-to-manage information into clean, searchable systems non-technical teams can maintain themselves.

Multiple projects Spreadsheet-powered
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Project lead

University of Alberta Website Migrations

Led full rebuilds and CMS migrations for three major U of A websites, each moved onto Cascade from a different platform — three executed solo, others alongside the digital team.

Drupal, Sitecore and WordPress → Cascade Multiple migrations led and executed
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Live

Frame to Finish Cleaning Website Redesign

Full-service site build for an Edmonton cleaning company — design, Wix build, and copywriting, start to finish.

Design, build and copy Matched the client's vision
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In beta testing

Odd Lot Co. Crafting Swap Platform

Built end-to-end, this platform lets users trade tools and supplies, crowdsource materials for repurposing projects, and show off finished work with the community.

Sign-up and swap board live Gallery and forum live
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