About me
Profile
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Education
- 1991-1994, Central Saint Martins, College of Art and Design
Degree, BA (Hons) Graphic Design
- 1990-1991, Hounslow Borough College
Foundation, Art and Design
- 1998-1990, Cranford Community School
A Levels - Art and Design, Graphics, Maths Statistics
- 1983-1988, Cranford Community School
O level - Art and Design
GCSE - English (Language & Literature), History, Science (Core & Further), Physics, Graphics
Practical skills:
- Solid information, interaction, conceptual and visual design skills.
- Extensive experience on design principles, attention to detail, proportion and composition.
- Extensive experiences in commercial graphic and web authoring applications and tools.
- Distil knowledge, generate ideas, solve problems and arrive at re/solution(s) effectively.
- Experience with B2B and B2C user centred research and design, information architecture, SEO, wireframes, state transition diagrams, site maps, and flow diagrams.
- Hand code complex designs into validating, cross-browser and cross-platform standard compliant documents using (x)HTML and CSS.
- Comprehensive knowledge of best web practices and standards (W3C/WCAG/RNIB).
- Understanding of CMS, XML, XSLT, JS Libraries (JQuery, MooTools, etc.), and server-side platforms.
- Practical experience with working in agile or waterfall methodologies and their development life-cycles.
- Multi-disciplinary experience across environments, from e-commerce and intranet platforms to digital production for conventional print.
Soft skills:
- Excellent leadership, project and time management, interpersonal and communication skills.
- Experience with managing small scale teams (5-10 person) within large scale environments (5-20 teams).
- Confident in leading development teams including designers, developers, project managers, architects involving internal staff, contractors and consultants.
- Strong multi-tasking skills across projects and products.
- Capable of working creatively and strategically in a fast paced environment under tight deadlines.
- Budget and resource management.
- Proactive, structured and organised.
- Innovative - advocate in digital trends and contemporary culture.
Software and Programming Knowledge
Web Publishing and
Authoring
- CSS
- HTML, XHTML
- Dreamweaver
- Homesite
- Adobe ImageReady
- Fireworks
- Flash
- Visio / Omnigraffle
Graphics, DTP and
Reprographics
- Adobe Photoshop
- Adobe Illustrator
- Adobe InDesign
- Quark Xpress
- Corel Draw
- ArtPro
Office Management
- Outlook
- Word
- Excel
- Power Point
- Adobe Acrobat