Curriculum Vitae

Download pdf version of my 2011 cv

Email producer London
Apr 2011 – July 2011
Brought in for a 3 month contract to work on the Mulberry email account. The job was solely email design and build under the tutorage of one of the countrys leading email consultants Phil Storey I learnt very best practice in email design and build. Worked on emails for McAfee, Blue inc, Officers Club, Birmingham Midshires, Halifax and subtley re-designed Transport for London’s service emails. Worked autonomously and received excellent feedback from clients.

Digital Designer Farnborough, Hampshire
Dec 2010 – Mar 2011
Achieved aim of working for a digital agency. Worked on Cancer Research adverts, emails, BlackBerry social media, frontpage designs, adverts, BAMMA social media graphics, Tottenham Hotspur facebook graphics, The One Nairobi site design feel and layout. I immediately integrated into design team and did overlapping work on all projects. I took on and fitted into design team as and when needed. Had to attain exactly same level of established quality level of design, learn brand guidelines and styles, comment work and make ready for presentation for clients. Received excellent feedback from many clients especially BlackBerry and The One Nairobi.

Digital Designer Twickenham, London
Nov 2009 – July 2010
My role at gaydar was digital designer for the development team. Working within the creative team my role was mainly to produce new layouts for the gaydar dating website and work towards a future re-design of the entire look and feel of the site. When working on section re-designs layouts would be developed through meetings with the dev team, then further 1 to 1 talks with the product manager would finalise the designs, then I would produce wireframes for the html and asp programmers. I also designed and created html emails, flash ads, site artwork, banners and icons.

Digital designer Soho, London
Apr 2007 – Apr 2009
As part of Tiscali s four man design team I created site designs, section designs, updated pages; designed and built html emails, competition graphics, action-scripted and built flash ads and designed static adverts/promotions. My role was to provide input to design tasks for all of Tiscali’s brands. A key task was to re-design the new small and medium enterprises portal within a tight three month deadline. In addition, I also designed for mobile phones and print.

Freelance designer / html/css developer London
Aug 2002 – Aug 2006
Working freelance helped to strengthen my communication and technical skills, moulding me into a successful project manager. My clients were diverse and ranged from a church to a multi- national Japanese electronics firm (Furukawa.co.uk). I also worked freelance for Thinmartian.co.uk June – July 2005, Haymarket Publishing May – June 2005 working on html layouts, graphic design, html, css mark-up for msn network, internal Microsoft sites flash animations and html email mail shots.

Education
BA Hons in Digital Media Production Elephant and Castle, London
Sep 2005 – Sep 2007
Got a 2.1 at London College of Communication. have since returned 3 times to give talks on ‘Freelance versus Permanent work structures’