About me

Now open to new contract opportunities in and around Berkshire, not in London! :) Always on the look out for my perfect permanent role.

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Portfolio website: artdirections (dot) co (dot) uk

Profile:

Amiable, dedicated, driven and passionate, with an impressively broad range of skills. An accomplished creative lead and a great team-player, with a practical down-to-earth approach. Agency and client-side experience, ranging from start-up companies to global blue chip clients. Proven ability to work on digital, UX, UI, print, and creative projects: from understanding business goals and concept creation, to IA and wire-framing, right through to high fidelity design iterations, UAT and successful launch. Working quickly, with meticulous attention to detail, leading to consistently outstanding results. Extremely versatile and quick to learn, and always hits the ground running. Available for contracting, or a varied and tantalising permanent role.

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Specialties:

-Versatile: will rise to any challenge from finding a new angle for a campaign to learning new skills quickly to make the project a success

-Enthusiastic team player & positive team leader

-Improves working practices and increases income generation

-Personable: proven success in taming even the most awkward clients

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Skills

-Current experience:

Acrobat, Axure, Balsamiq, Adobe CC, Excel, InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, PowerPoint, typing 70 WPM, repositories, version control, Word.

-Past experience:

After Effects, Agile process, Audition, Blend, CMS, CSS, Dreamweaver, Encore, Fireworks, Flash, French, HTML, Premiere, QuarkXPress, SoundForge, Visio, Visual Studio, XAML, XML.

-Exposure to:

C#, Figma, InVision, JavaScript, Joomla, Marvel, Mockplus, Pencil, Sitecore, Sketch, Wireframe, XD.

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TOP CLIENTS & EMPLOYERS (direct & indirect):

Barclays, PwC

Alamy, Birdseye, Waitrose

GSK, Janssen-Cilag, NHS, Pfizer, Philips

Mitie

Man-Utd, RFU

Fujitsu, IBM, Motorola, O2, Virgin, Vodafone, Vertu

GAME, Microsoft

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RECOMMENDATIONS

See below for a few recommendations, or view my linkedin profile for 40 recommendations! linkedin (dot) com/in/clairedenning

"Leading the design process, Claire was instrumental in the success of some major projects involving complicated UX challenges. With very detailed design documentation she supported the development team through the implementation process ensuring the output met stakeholder/customer requirements. A genuinely nice person with vast experience in many design principles."

- Kaldip Chohan, Development Manager, Alamy

"Claire worked closely with Alamy India UI Development in an offshore set-up, and she expertly filled her role in several projects. Particularly impressed about her attention to detail, web and UI knowledge and the team work. Claire would be an asset to any team, she earns my highest recommendation."

- Srinivas Paladugu, Delivery Head & CTO, Alamy India

"I worked with Claire in Microsoft Services and was impressed with the great contribution she made in the engagement. She worked hard with the customer, very quickly understood requirements and delivered some impressively quick results that for the first time enabled the customer to visualise the vision we were creating. Really great impact."

- Tom Chapman, Principal Engagement Mgr, Microsoft Services

"Claire's input as the Senior eCommerce Designer definitely contributed to the success of Waitrose online business. She grasped the requirements of the role quickly, showing she could lead as well as listen. Faced with the fast paced environment of grocery retailing, she demonstrated a disciplined approach to delivering high quality work on time, and with passion."

- Alex Murray, Web/Multichannel Development Mgr, Waitrose

"I can honestly say she was hard working, innovative and committed to her role. Not only that, she contributed to the team and the business by developing process improvements to areas both inside and outside of her creative zone. These contributions, her ability to quote projects accurately, manage time and her role as mentor to junior staff leave me with no doubt she would be great in a Creative Director role or similar. As a person she is fun, generous and thoughtful and also full of ideas. I would recommend Claire to any business!"

- Mike Harrison, Head of Digital Marketing, Essential

"Aside from the obvious matter of being a very talented designer I found she had an astonishing aptitude towards the technical. Claire picked up XAML exceedingly quickly and was able to contribute designs that were not only attractive but actually technically feasible too. Claire is approachable, friendly, adaptable and pragmatic."

- Jamie Davis, Windows Phone 8 Consultant, Microsoft