Key creative lead in the B2C team with additional support for the B2C department and the wider creative team.

Tasks include:
Designing product for both core business range (licensed sector - posters, prints, drinkware, calendars and packaging) and student poster sales.
Reworking existing artwork for use on various printing substrates (resizing, ink limits etc) and advising others on best practice in printing.
Setting up systems and workflows for print on demand (POD) fulfilment.
Creating branding/signage for POD department.
Aiding student poster sales by selling on the road on occasion and delivering stock via van from warehouse to postal facility.
Aiding team members by introducing automated workflows to previously manual processes.

Initially working as part of the in-house creative team for Sekonda, the UK’s top selling watch brand, and latterly Accurist, Sekonda’s sister company. Starting as a junior, I have taken on increasing responsibilities and have been operating on a senior level since 2010. This has included staff training and mentoring, and project management (including responsibility for project finances).

I have experience and developed skills in:
Print design (from beginning to end);
Web design (with occasional coding);
Photography and retouching (the latter a speciality);
Brand policing;
Paper/card engineering for POS;
Animation/motion graphics/video;
Internal and external communication across all levels of seniority.

I’ve worked with many high profile brands and companies, from domestic brands such as John Lewis, Debenhams, and ASOS to airlines such as British Airways, Virgin Atlantic, and Qantas.

Passionate about the effective running of the business, I sit on the Health and Safety committee and am a fire warden.

Responsible for:
Intranet design, development and upkeep;
Development of internal web-based multimedia asset sharing system;
Development of Corporate Style Guide;
Web design, involving the creation of many small sites;
Flash animation design;
Photography;
Restoration of old photographic film archive (Digital transfer, image repair);
Producing and overseeing video projects – filming training sessions and lectures and webcasting them, and filming corporate safety videos and building them using an Avid suite.

Summer 2002; Summer 2003 (Seasonal voluntary work)

Leading and supervising various activities including Archery lessons, to youths of various backgrounds, including young offenders and the disabled.

A varied course, taking in programming (both front-end and back-end), sound design, visualisation (life drawing, etc), cultural theory, ethics and animation.

2:1 (plus Best Multimedia Computing Student Prize 2003/4)

3 A levels - English Literature, History and Computing

10 GCSEs - including Double Science, Maths, English, Art, Electronics, Welsh.