Curriculum Vitae
Graphic designer with experience in on / offline design and corporate identity creation. With over ten years of studio experience I am able offer the complete design solution, providing you with light-weight, web standards compliant websites, bespoke corporate identity and design for all your printed publications.
12/2006 - present | Virgin Media
Senior Designer
- Art direction
- SEO
- Site design
- Branding & Iconography
- HTML
- CSS2
- Flash animation
- Advertising projects & pitches
- Micro-site design & development
- Creation of brand style guides for Virgin Media and LIVINGtv
- Design & development of site components for virginmedia.com
- Administration of Virgin Media portal
- Dynamic web banners
- Liaison with partner integrations during run up to launch of Virgin media
06/2006 - 12/2006 | Virgin Net
Designer
- Redesign of Virgin.net portal and external applications
- Iconography
- Flash design
- Design of printed promotional material
04/2004 - 06/2006 | Easynet Group Plc
Web Designer / Developer
- Intranet design
- Redesign / redevelop web sites - Easynet
- Update multiple Arcadia brand web sites - Burtonmenswear | DorothyPerkins
- Dynamic web banners, e-mailers
- XHTML / DHTML / HTML
- Flash design
- CSS2
07/2002 - 06/2004 | Glow Telecommunications Plc
Mid / Senior Creative Designer
- Head of a small team my roles main focus is web design online presentations and promotion, while working closely with the programmers to produce the final sites
- Dynamic web banners, e-mailers
- Design and produce all printed promotional material (corporate brochures, advertising, stationary, presentations, DM)
- Account handler & client liaison
- Experienced in printed media and print buying
07/2002 - 06/2004 | Essentially Sport (In unison with Glow Telecommunications Plc)
Mid / Senior Creative Designer
- Colin Mcrae | the official site
- Jenson Button | the official site
- The Upgrade Store | shopping site
01/2001 - 07/2002 | F1i.com Europe Ltd
Web graphic designer
- Created the site and worked closely with the programmers to develop
- Dynamic web banners
- Printed material (advertisements, media pack)
- Flash TV commercial (constructed in flash 5) that appeared on American TV channel 'SpeedVision' during F1 race weekends
- Acting client liaison and responsible for own time management to tight deadlines
Skills
- Photoshop
- Illustrator
- Dreamweaver
- Quark Xpress
- InDesign
- Flash
- SEO
- HTML
- CSS2
- Fireworks
- Swift 3D
Education
- 09/1995 - 06/1998: Salford University / BA (hons) Design Studies
- 09/1994 - 06/1995: Southampton Inst. o. H.E / HND Graphic design
- 09/1993 - 06/1994: Hertfordshire Regional College / BTEC Graphic design
- 09/1992 - 06/1993: Hertfordshire Regional College / BTEC Art Foundation
- 09/1985 - 06/1992: Richard Hale Secondary School