About me

A highly competent, enthusiastic & ambitious designer with 5 years of fast-paced, studio experience. Has an extensive background in many areas of design, such as advertising, animation, illustration, video editing, 3-D modelling, web design & post production effects.

Now looking to build on existing experience by moving into a challenging, diverse & exciting creative design role.

Skills

Adobe Creative Suite, PhotoShop | Illustrator | InDesign | Fireworks | Flash | Dreamweaver | Premiere | Acrobat | Bridge, Microsoft Office / Open Office, PowerPoint | Excel | Word | Access | Outlook, 3D Studio Max - Virtools - Actinic Version 7 & 8, Code Knowledge HTML - CSS - Java Script

Sector Experience

Graphic Designer Johnston Press Publishing Group, Leeds, Designing print & digital advertising visuals for a vast selection of diverse clients;in-house promotional material such as email campaigns, posters, leaflets ; logos & branding, supplement & full feature designs., Artworker PMF Products Ltd, Doncaster, Catalogue design & production - from concept to print; maintenence of company websites- designing banners, flash adverts & updating the online product catalogue; stationary & business cards; promotional print material, logos & branding, retouching & editing of products images, product photography.

Awards

Leeds Metropolitan University (2004 - 2007), BSc Computer Entertainment & Technology Graduate (First Class Honours), Notre Dame Sixth Form Catholic College, Leeds (2002 - 2004), A Levels; Design & Technology-Product Design (A), Art and Design (C), Computing (C), AS level: Mathematics-Pure & Applied (C), Corpus Christi Catholic College, Leeds (1997 - 2002), 10 GCSES’s: A* to C grades (English, Mathematics, IT, Graphic Design, RE, Spanish - all A or higher)