About me

I am an artworker with over 20 years experience in a permanent and freelance capacity. I'm highly proficient in Adobe CS5 (Indesign, Illustrator, Photoshop and Acrobat), QuarkXpress plus working experience in Word and Powerpoint. I have limited web experience having created a few small basic websites for small businesses. I have worked in advertising, corporate, in-house, direct mail and retail.

Skills

I have worked in various sectors of the market, Advertising, Retail, DM, Corporate, In-house as an artworker and designer. My skills are artworking and designing Brochures, POS, Direct Mail literature, Newspaper ads and various adhoc material. I have had limited experience designing and implementing websites. Creating animated banners for sites as animated gifs and basic Flash.

Sector Experience

I have worked in various sectors of the market., Advertising - Young & Rubicam (Cape Town) for 7 years and in London in a freelance capacity., Corporate - Ernst & Young for 2 years, Barclays Global on a 3 month temp basis and in a freelance capacity., Direct Mail - DST Output for 7 years, Planet direct in Cape Town for a year and in a freelance capacity., Inhouse - Various companies in a freelance capacity., Retail - Lewis Stores furniture, Cape Town for 7 years, and in a freelance capacity.

Awards

National Printers Certificate 3 (NPC3), Design & layout, Print theory, English, Typography at Cape Town Technicon, 1-year part time course in graphic design/commercial art at Ruth Prowse Art School, Cape Town, 3 months intensive training in Freehand, QuarkXPress & PhotoShop at DTP Technologies, Cape Town, 2 weeks training in Flash 4 & Director 7 at Concept Interactive Training College, Cape Town, 2 months part-time course in HTML & JavaScript at CSI (Computer Science Inst.), Cape Town, 2 full day course in Indesign CS2 at Aquent , London , 2 full day course in advanced Indesign CS4 at Media Training, London

Clients

Barclays Global Investors, Base1, Bell Design, CarnegieOrr, Carphone Warehouse, CCHM, Chubb, Code London, Comminque, Crazy Shark, DST Output, Emperor Design, Ernst & Young, George P Johnson, Grey?s Healthcare, Gyro, H&H Associates, Hotcake Marketing, KLP Euro, Lewis Stores, Marks & Spencer, Merrill Corporation, Ogilvy Contact, PCI-Live, Rodgers & Rodgers, Salter Baxter, SITA/Equant, Sun Alliance insurance, Thomson Breakaways, Thomson Travel, TMP, UK Department of Health, Venture3, Watson Wyatt, Wickes, Wordlink