Paul Kirk

Norwich, United Kingdom

Work Experience

Paul Kirk Design

Freelance designer, web designer & owner of Paul Kirk Design

August 2013 - Present Norwich, United Kingdom

The Line Agency Ltd

Digital Project Manager

My current position of digital project manager encompasses a wide range of responsibilities from project initiation, wireframing, design and budgets through to delivery.

Generally I am responsible for scoping the technical requirements of any digital project, whether it’s a website, email marketing campaign or other such digital based projects with the selected client and server side programmers and designers. I plan the IA of a site, including the wire framing process before managing the design and build phases of projects with our team ensuring that all is completed within budget and to agreed timescales.
September 2011 - August 2013 Norwich, United Kingdom

Turton Middleton Ltd

Digital Project Manager

Responsibilities include taking the brief and developing the design of the site using psd’s. This also encompasses producing sitemaps and wireframes, exploring useability, information architecture and researching emerging technology or apps. that we can utilise. I’m also adept at quoting and liaising with the programmers including creating a ‘build document’ that is then given to the programming team which lays out all functionality and actions required on the site build.
July 2011 - September 2011 Norwich, United Kingdom

Turton Middleton Ltd

Senior Web Creative

Responsibilities include taking the brief and developing the design of the site using psd’s. This also encompasses producing sitemaps and wireframes, exploring useability, information architecture and researching emerging technology or apps. that we can utilise. I’m also adept at quoting and liaising with the programmers including creating a ‘build document’ that is then given to the programming team which lays out all functionality and actions required on the site build.
January 2006 - July 2011 Norwich, United Kingdom

Turton Middleton Ltd

Designer/Senior Creative

Responsibilities include conceptualisating designs over a wide range of media, including advertising, corporate identity, food packaging and the web. Supervising the production of the artwork by our in-house artworking team. Keeping track of project budgets, resolving any issues with artworkers and liaising with clients and suppliers. Commissioning photographers and illustrators and recommending new software/hardware for the
studio.
August 1995 - January 2006 Norwich, United Kingdom

Education

Norwich School Of Art & Design

BTEC Higher National Diploma in Graphic Design

1993 - 1995 Norwich, United Kingdom

Norwich School Of Art & Design

BTEC National Diploma in Graphic Design

1991 - 1993 Norwich, United Kingdom

Paston Sixth Form College

A Levels

3 A-Levels including: Art & Design (B), Media Studies (B)
1989 - 1991 United Kingdom

Languages

English (Native),

Skills

Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Indesign, Adobe Photoshop, Campaign Monitor, Character Design, Email Marketing, Google Adwords, Google Analytics, Graphic Design, HTML, Illustration, Logo Development, Mailchimp, PHP, PPC, SEO, UX/UI, Web Design, Web Development, Wordpress Management,