About me

I am a multi-skilled Creative Designer and Project Coordinator with over 17 years of professional experience with a wide variety of clients, from large multinationals to smaller unique enterprises, and a dedicated Project Manager. professional experience. In addition to graduating from a Masters in Professional Design Practice in DIT, also completed an honours QQI Level 5 Diploma in Digital & Social Media Marketing course in the Irish Computer Society.

Working as a Creative Designer and Project Coordinator represented a great professional challenge and developed exponentially my leadership and management skills, with great focus on communication, planning, resources, and management. These skills were further developed successfully in Masters Professional Design Practice.

Complementing the creative aspect of my career I developed resourceful management skills with the addition of administrative and financial management. This included tracking all projects from initial development to implementation along with being responsible for marketing, branding and graphic communication.

I am guided by my values of self-motivation, initiative, continuous-learning, respect, honesty, integrity, empathy, leadership, commitment, cooperation, innovation and creativity. I offer a combination of these skills along with a multi-disciplinary knowledge, design and marketing experience, strategic planning, awareness and business development skills which can help exceed your expectations. I am at present taking an opportunity to manage my own business using my transferable skills and experience. I believe experience is one of the most valuable assets we can gather.

"Ashling helped us create two very successful recipe e-books to promote a new cooking demonstration kitchen for our nutrition college. We were delighted with the quality of Ashling's creative ideas and graphic skills, and we enjoyed our easy collaboration."

Richard Burton, The Irish Institute of Nutrition and Health