About me
I'm a designer with over 8 years experience both in-house and with Agencies. Current and past work responsibilities have given me experience predominately as a digital designer, but also with web and project management duties. I'm very willing to learn new skills.
My ideal job would be in digital design and or as a creative web editor.
Skills
Graphic design and front end web design. Art-working & retouching. Project management, dealing with customer relations, marketing and sales. Strong experience in e-commerce and retail. Also website management, web-site search engine optimisation and copyrighting., Software skills;, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, DreamWeaver, Flash, InDesign, Quark Express, Microsoft Word, Excel, Powerpoint and Web Content Management Systems (Actinic, Joomla, J-Shop, WordPress, Expression Engine, Umbraco, Venda and Drupal). Also custom CMS and email marketing software such as Emarsys. XHTML and CSS. Social media platforms for business; Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Hootsuite (social media dashboard) and finally Google Analytics.
Sector Experience
FREELANCE DIGITAL DESIGNER | December 2012 to present, Working with a great London agency on some exciting projects, PAPERCHASE PRODUCTS LTD | DIGITAL DESIGNER July 2011 to November 2012, Worked closely with the Senior Designer and e-commerce team. My key responsibilities were ensuring the website reflected all current trading activity. Designing all digital branding & marketing material. Producing weekly emails in line with marketing and trading calendars, creating new templates where necessary. Liaising closely with colleagues from different departments (merchandising, visual merchandising, buyers, design) to ensure consistency and the best, response from briefs. Providing specialist digital design for all new projects such as homepage, basket and checkout page redesigns and personalised cards. Monitoring competitors to ensure that Paperchase remained innovative, aspirational and the market leader., Planning and implementing marketing strategies for Pinterest, Facebook, Twitter & the Paperchase blog. Organising any large photo shoots (e.g. Christmas 2012) which included sourcing locations and photographers, planning each shot and selecting products. Art directing and photography on small shoots for the website. Affiliate banners and selected press advertising., FABRIC INTERFACE | HEAD OF DESIGN & ONLINE PROMOTION. Part of Fabric Technologies, London. October 2007 to July 2011, Fabric Interface provides web design, development and graphic design. Part of Fabric Technologies, a business technology consultancy. My role as Head of Design for Fabric Interface included front end web design, basic programming, e-shots, print and logo design. Also involved in project management; overseeing new projects from start to launch, integration of content management systems, redesigns and more. Supervision of online marketing and promotional graphics on twitter, blogs and Facebook. Managing a small team supervising and briefing them in design, marketing and online promotions. Worked with the developers and programmers in the Interface team as well as Freelancers to ensure projects were successfully completed. Clients included; Nexus PR, Timebased Events, Helen Bamber Foundation, Dairy Farming and Zolfo Cooper.
Awards
Advanced Photoshop CS6 October 2012. Transmedia.co.uk, DreamWeaver CS2 Advanced. July 2008. QA-IQ Training Course, Birmingham Institute of Art and Design. September 2001 - June 2004, Bachelor of Arts with Honours, 2:1 in Visual Communications (Graphic Design), Norwich University College of the Arts (formally known as Norwich School of Art and Design). September 2000 - June 2001, National BTEC Diploma in Art and Design Foundation Studies, Notre Dame Roman Catholic High School, Norwich. September 1992 - June 2000, 4 A’ Levels; Including Graphic Design and Communications, Art and Design; Historical and Critical and English Literature. 10 GCSE’s (grades A to B)