About me

I am a multi-award winning, full life-cycle Digital Product Designer currently employed by the highly innovative national radio station, Absolute Radio. I've produced intuitive interfaces across a multitude of platforms and devices for fifteen years, taking projects from concept to information architecture and user experience and into visual design and front-end build.

In 2011 I won a Sony Radio Academy Award in the Best Use of Multiplatform category followed by a TechCon award for Digital Innovation at the Radio Festival. In 2012 I have been nominated as Best Multiplatform Creator at the Radio Production Awards and asked to judge the Best Technical Achievement category at the Student Radio Awards.

Skills

Interface design, user experience design, usability, visual design, art direction, digital brand development., HTML(5), CSS(3), jQuery, Adobe Creative Suite., Product development, project management, production management., Idea generation, conceptual thinking, innovation, answering briefs.

Sector Experience

Senior Interactive Producer, Absolute Radio, January 2011 - Present, In my current role I operate as Lead Designer and front-end developer, I am also manager of Absolute Radio’s in-house design and production team. I lead on visual brand development, user experience and interface design as well as the creation of new products across Absolute Radio’s digital portfolio. I work with members of the executive team and senior management to identify both revenue and marketing opportunites for the Absolute Radio brand and manage the production workload for my team, assigning and managing projects. My team is also responsible for the design of commercial microsites, email newsletters and ad creative for clients including Jack Daniel’s, Microsoft, Lloyds TSB and British Gas., Interactive Media Producer, Absolute Radio, October 2008 - December 2010, I was a Senior Designer and Project Manager on multiple large scale productions: I created a fully automated data driven football match day centre for the web. I created the hugely successful Live Football Scores app which featured in The Sun and worked with external agencies to build the Sony Award winning suite of mobile apps., Commercial Web Producer, Virgin Radio, April 2007 - September 2008 , In this client facing role I designed and built microsites, email newsletters, ad creative and branded content for high profile companies including Nike, Sky, Chanel, Sainsbury’s, Orange, Coca Cola, HSBC and Twentieth Century Fox. I was solely responsible for managing the production workload; delegating and managing short term projects., Marketing Assistant, Powakaddy International Ltd, October 2005 - March 2007 , I designed, built and maintained the consumer facing websites for both the Powakaddy and Hill Billy golf trolley brands, consulted on and proofed the annually produced product trade brochure for Powakaddy and designed promotional emails and posters. I also assisted with general marketing and customer service administrative duties., General Assistant, Regard Partnership, September 2003 - September 2005 , Most notably I kept the company website looking presentable and up to date with relevent content as instructed by management as well as providing printed material and technical support for various training courses. I also carried out a range of other general administrative duties as and when required.

Awards

- Nominated as Best Multiplatform Creator at 2012 Radio Production Awards., - Sony Radio Academy Award 2011 - Best Use of Multiplatform., - TechCon Technical Innovation Award at the Radio Festival 2011.

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Availability
Looking for work
Contract
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Location
Southfields, Greater London, United Kingdom
Skill Level
Senior, Director
Creativepool member since 11 August 2008