About me

A Designer boasting five years professional experience. Passionate about the digital medium, having worked on a broad range of digital projects including website design & build, graphic design, branding. Motivated, quick-to-adapt and capable of shifting between UX and design.

Skills

- Excellent design and typographic skills, - Manage complete projects from brief to delivery, - Strong team player, - Excellent time management skills and working under pressure, - Strong creative vision and concept development., - Proficiency in Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign, - Knowledge of, CSS & HTML, Flash, - Experience in leading creative teams

Sector Experience

LEAD DESIGNER 2009 - PRESENT, In-house Lead Designer, working across different brands, including The Independent, Delia Smith’s online presence, iVillage, Best for Film and Metro. My work spanned a wide range of channels, including web page design and build, email marketing design, banners and site design enhancements, mainly focusing on ecommerce design for optimisation of performance. I design for the full spectrum of devices from mobile phone to tablets to laptops and TVs., ZABIDOO - PART OF INSTANT ACCESS TECHNOLOGIES - READING, GRAPHIC DESIGNER 2007 - 2009, My responsibilities were to design a user interface for 2 products, Zabidoo & The Web Navigator. I contributed to the creative design of company collateral for both traditional and digital mediums for general branding and client pitch materials.

Awards

LONDON COLLEGE OF FASHION, SHORT COURSE IN MILLINERY, LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY - LIVERPOOL, BA (HONS) GRAPHIC DESIGN 2003-2006, OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY - OXFORD, BTEC ART FOUNDATION 2002-2003