Recent Position(s)

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Freelancing

July 2008 – Present

I have worked for a number of companies on a freelance basis, some of these roles involved working on award winning projects.

This includes work for : Sony BMG, Virgin, Universal, Jaguar, Next, Sky, St Modwen, Betfair, Severn Trent Water, Lewis’s and HESimm.

I am currently freelancing for a range of companies including STAN Communications in Manchester UK. We offer online recruitment marketing solutions for large companies such as Adobe, Hoover and The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust. I am also working on projects that include user experience solutions and information architecture for a number of up and coming businesses.

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Bit10

Production Designer
June 2006 – July 2008

At bit10 I worked as one of only two designers. My main job was the full design of customer websites and any in-house graphic design projects.

Customers have ranged from Severn Trent Water, The Derbyshire Building Society, Next, Virgin and Sony BMG ( now known as Universal. )

Each site design consists of Information Architecture, Wireframing, Usability and Accessibility.

Although design was my main role within the company, I devoted alot of my time to the markup of non-database driven websites with CSS and templated others. I am fully trained to build websites for use with Contribute and have trained each client how to use Adobe Contribute as part of a small workshop.

I often work overtime to complete projects for deadline. In addition I recently started an after hours basic flash workshop for the children at local school: Small Heath.

Details : www.bit10.net

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Trader Media Group

Dealer Website Designer
March 2005- July 2005

This Job involved the making of new standard/premium package websites and also the administration of all dealer websites.

Most Packages are websites of up to 6 pages made from a combination of Flash, HTML and database driven CSS. These packages were given to premium customers and many websites were simply duplicates of the last.

I quickly left Trader Media group due to the restrictions and frustration building these simple duplicated template sites posed.

Hardly any design knowledge was needed for this role and the already marked up css templates produced errors, So where not to a w3 standard yet were still sold.
I haven’t presented any of these sites in my portfolio but can produce examples within interview if desired.

Details : www.autotrader.co.uk

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ViaNetworks / Clara.net

Domains Technical Advisor
Nov 2003 – March 2005

The domains team consisted of myself and one other person. My main day to day activities included : Helping customers with their domain queries, domain registration and transferring and general website help and administration of over 8000 customer accounts.

I also provided technical support if the support team was short on staff. I was also free to take on any overtime or on-call duties that would involve logging calls via the on-call laptop 24 hours that given day.

Clara.net bought out Vianetworks at the start of 2005. Clara.net also offered a level of service which allowed me to help the customers update and maintain their websites and web pages.

Within this role I interacted with companies such as Nominet and Melbourne IT who are major domain hosts in the web related world and take on board on call duties ( 24/7 service ).

Details : www.clara.net

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Polar Ford

Website Administrator
May 2003 – Nov 2003

During my time at college where I was training to become a car designer I was lucky enough to land a part time job with Ford Cars as a website administrator and general content maintainer.

As my time at Ford progressed I began to work closely with the design team and helped to come up with the 2004 Ford site design. This role fuelled the passion I have today for website design.

Details : www.ford.co.uk