My CV
Achievements and Experience
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I am a passionate and loyal employee who thoroughly enjoys every aspect of design. I have way too many years of experience in both large and boutique agencies, working in a wide range of sectors, including automobile, FMCG, ecommerse, film, housing and sports, over a range of projects spanning campaign, big brand brochure sites and ecommerce platforms.
I am at my happiest working in a mixed discipline team, solving problems using the latest technology and design thinking. I stay abreast of latest award winning work, and strive to create it where projects allow. I’m comfortable working in both agile and waterfall.
So far in my career I have been fortunate enough to work with some big brands including Yeo Valley, Whole Earth, Pizza Hut, Hyundai, Unite Group, Europcar, ebay, Dorset Cereals, Wagamama, Tenpin and many others. And also some e-commerce brands like Prestige, Circulon and the Nottingham Forest FC shop.
Working with likeminded creative people, learning and sharing new ideas or just videos of baby monkeys riding on pigs, creates the perfect environment for me to thrive.
Jan 2024 - Aug 2024
UI & UX Designer - Positive
Responsible for UX and UI. Recieving client briefs and translating them into useful, easy to navigate, beautiful websites. Building and using design systems to ensure consistancy across outputs, helping clients have final products that are easy build and manage.
Brands: Care UK, Heritage Portfolio, Raymarine and Withers World Wide.
Feb 2007 - present
Digital/Graphic Designer - Freelance
Worked for a few clients including:
Michael Rothstein Recruitment: Designed two websites, new logo, stationary, mouse mats, Christmas cards and other little bits.
Subversive T-shirts: Created the branding, logo, stationary, postcards, T-shirts and the website.
Imagine Dragons (Band): Flash and static banners for new album.
Plus lots of smaller none paying jobs.
July 2023 - Oct 2023
UI & UX Designer - Nalla Design
Responsible for the digital design and taking clients through personas, task mapping, user journeys, wire-framing and final UI Designs.
Brands: Koko fuel, Veri and Nalla website.
Oct 2016 - Sept 2022
UI & UX Designer - Big Fish
Responsible for all digital design. Everything from redesigning existing websites or starting from scratch with startups.
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Responsibilities included: Conducting workshops with clients, creating personas, site maps, user journeys, wireframes, prototypes, user testing and final high fidelity designs. Working with developers through the build and QA process. Testing with crazy egg and tracking success in google analytics to improve designs moving forward.
Brands: Yeo Valley, LEAP wild salmon, Bannisters Potatoes, Dorset Cereals and Whole Earth.
Jun 2014 - Jun 2016
Digital Designer - PushON
Solely responsible for creative output, working mostly on eCommerce sites with a sprinkling of brochure websites.
Looking to expand my skill-set I took on the extra role of being the UX designer as it was something that has always interested me.
Some of the sites I worked on were Prestige cookware, Nottingham Forest FC shop site and children's swimwear brand Splash About.
Work undertaken included concepting, uxing, designing, liaising with account teams and some client meetings.
May 2011 - Feb 2013
Digital Designer - Draftfcb
Working with the Creative director or senior designer, I worked on website, email and banner designs for some of the agencies biggest clients including Hyundai, Pizza Hut (Lead designer), Post Office, agency charity Sported and tenpin.
Work undertaken included concepting, designing, liaising with account teams and managing freelancers.
Jun 2010 - May 2011
Junior Designer - Blue Barracuda
Working with the Creative Director and Art Directors on multiple projects at the agency, including website, email and banner designs, for various clients including Pizza Hut, BAA, ebay Europcar, Find Any Film, Wagamama, TGI Fridays and Unite group.
Skills
UX/UI Design
Low to high fidelity design and prototyping
Wireframing
Design systems
Personas
User Flows
Research
Guerilla testing
Testing
Graphic Design
PC and Mac capable.
Awards
Student D&AD Award
Won a D&AD Student Yellow Pencil in 2005.
UK Digital Entrepreneur Awards
Helped PushON win Stand-out Agency Award at the UK Digital Entrepreneur Awards 2015.
EDUCATION
HND Graphic Design
University of Lincoln
2002 - 2004
BA Interactive Screen Based Graphics
University of Lincoln
2004 - 2005