Alida Lio

Maple, ON | Cell: (416) 873-5456

lioalida@gmail.com

PROFILE
Baker / Activity Organizer / Event Planner with a passion for bringing people together for fun and
engaging activities. Respected for interpersonal skills, long-term relationship building and genuine
appreciation for artistic expression. Able to create environments for active aging, children’s
engagement and human connection through art, creativity, outings, field trips or over a cup of tea.
Strengths to Leverage:
Relationship Management | Outgoing Personality | Influencing
Organization | Creative Expression | Volunteer Management
Connection | Engagement | Relationship Building

RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
Event Planning
• CIBC 10th Mobile Anniversary Event: Planned and designed 4-tier celebratory cake for CIBC
Head Office. The design included; fondant covered tiers in CIBC colours, food safe printed logos,
gumpaste cellphones which displayed screens from the launch, trimmed 2 tiers and the current
cellphone and landing page as the cake topper.
• CIBC Children’s Activities: During Children Christmas parties there was a lack of craft activities
for children to entertain themselves while waiting for Santa. Developed activity stations with
age-appropriate crafts. First year there 3 activities. Grew to 8 activities over the years. The
result was that 3000 children had fun, interactive and engaging experiences with artistic
expression. The party became a richer experience and included Santa Claus.
• Adult Events: Saw a need for a new way for Brides-to-Be to connect with their friends.
Developed a Paint it Yourself ceramic party specific to the needs of Bridal Parties. This included
liaison with the Bride-to-Be to select ready to paint items. The Bridal party would gather and
create. Once created the items were returned to the bride as gifts from the heart.
Organization
• Trips: As an avid traveller, responded to requests from others to organize trips and outings.
Organized a Caribbean cruise for 2, including locations, accommodations and more. Also, an
Asian trip for 2 from Singapore to Beijing with all activities, layovers, accommodations and
more. The result was repeat business.
• Business Library: In response to a routine request for a business process update, discovered
that the business process repository was in disarray. In collaboration with 3 Managers and 3
staff, undertook the complete overhaul of the repository. Initiated a new coding and filing
system, placed it all on a shared drive and clarified the methodology for naming and version
control. In just under 1 year, approximately 5000 documents were organized and easily
accessible by anyone on the team.
Relationship Building
• Collaborative: Genuinely friendly and out-going. Uses active listening to hear and understand
both the expressed and un-expressed needs. Influences without direct control by sincerely
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valuing all opinions. Able to pull together diverse groups to achieve outcomes be it business
process improvement, a successful party or gathering of any sort.

WORK EXPERIENCE
CIBC, President’s Choice Financial, Toronto, ON 2002 – 2020
Business Analyst, Process Engineering | 2007 - 2020
Fulfillment Specialist, Vendor Management & Fulfillment | 2002 – 2007

From the Kiln, Vaughan, ON 1990 – 2002

Owner/Operator

EDUCATION
Humber College Institute of Technology & Advanced Learning January 2021 – present
- Baking and Pastry Arts Management

O.S.S.D., Westview, Toronto, ON

CERTIFICATIONS
CIBCs Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt Training
• Successfully completed in July 2015
• CIBC Enterprise Requirements Methodology Series
Advanced Certificate of Completion in Business Analysis
• Successfully completed in March 2011

VOLUNTEER
CIBC, Toronto, ON January 2003 – September 2011
CIBC Social Committee – member
Managed aspects of planning corporate events which included Corporate Holiday and Children’s Party
and CIBC days at Canada’s Wonderland.
• Built, developed and maintained vendor relationships in support of employer sponsored events,
including but not limited to annual corporate holiday parties
• Built, developed and maintained vendor relationships in support of employee discounts such as
theme parks, live theatre, movies and more
• Managed and led a team of 30+ volunteers for CIBC Children’s Holiday Party

ACCOMPLISHMENTS
• Recipient of two CIBC Quarterly Team Achiever
• Managed a school project to have each child create a unique piece of art on a ceramic tile which
was later incorporated onto the hallway walls.
• Worked with York Region School board to implement a ceramics program into their curriculum.
• Created lunch time ceramic’s activities for students, working with a school Principal for
successful implementation.