CREATIVE DESIGNER

Resume

Employment History:

R G Carter Ltd – March 2014 – Sept 2019 – Bury St Edmunds, UK

Senior Graphic Designer

The R G Carter Group, founded in 1921, is a family owned business with a proud ninety year history, achieving growth and success by combining strong traditional values with an innovative and forward thinking approach.

My role as Senior designer is servicing R G Carters national and regional clients from a network of offices based throughout the Central and Eastern regions of the United Kingdom, providing design, sustainable, partnered construction and project management services for private and public sector clients on projects ranging from £50 to over £50 million. These client include Waitrose, Tesco, Harrods, The Co-Operative Group and Asda to name a few. I also cover all Carter Group's vast array of associate building companies.

I'm responsible for covering all design aspects all of R G Carters business sectors spanning commercial, energy, health, industrial, leisure, retail, infrastructure, housing and more.

Banbury Howard – Feb 2014 – 2016 Ipswich, UK

Senior Graphic Designer/Freelance

Integrated Digital marketing & PR Agency in Ipswich,Suffolk.

Banbury Howard is a full-service agency strongly focused onresults; offering internal, external and digital marketing communications. Ourparticular specialism is working with organisations who wish to transform,whether it be their workforce, their company culture, their external image orthe number of customers they attract.

CML Marketing Ltd – October 2006 – Jan 2014 – Ipswich, UK

Senior Creative UX/UI Designer

Lead creative familiar with taking projects from concept to competition with a collaborative and multidisciplinary team. Working within a successful marketing & design agency gaining 7 years extensive design experience in an array of B2B and corporate design areas, encompassing brand development, advertising, HTML5 animation, corporate literature, direct mail, exhibition graphics, social content, sales literature, web design, UI design, analytics, SEO, multimedia & audio production and of course marketing.

From developing marketing strategies & websites for the world's foremost IT recycling business with a net £50 million turnover, producing literature for the NHS, re-branding leading ISP providers, to designing cutting edge graphics & exhibition stands at London Excel for Global insurance company Catlin. I’m proud to say I have done it.

Prettyugly – January 2008 – Present – Ipswich, UK

Freelance Creative Designer

An exceptional, creative, digital-savvy pixel perfect freelance designer with a growing creative ambition. Passionate about innovative modern graphic & web design strongly focused on clean cutting edge elegant design communications that resinate with clients, and also carry the creativity & flair to stand the test of time. I have a fresh, contemporary visual approach to design with strong conceptual thinking personified across multiple platforms and devices. Literally bursting with millions of pixels packed full of exciting ideas, freelance has given me the opportunity to push the envelope of the normal corporate guidelines.

Suffolk County Council – January 2006 – October 2006 – Ipswich, UK

Mid-Weight Graphic Designer

Playing a key role in every aspect & stage of the design process from initial conceptualisation, through to the delivery of the final design. From each idea conceived to rough sketches, image sourcing, design process, to print management, client liaising whilst adhering to strict corporate guidelines has furnished me a wealth of skills and knowledge at my disposal. It was whilst in this position I learnt a huge amount about typography, how it can form designs it's self to how simple fonts can change a design in a instant. These are skills that is still with me today that I feel set the best designers apart from designers.

UKISC – International Soccer Camps – January 2004 – August 2004 – Los Angeles, USA

Soccer Coach/Camp Director

Soccer coach in the west coast of sunny California, responsible for over 60 children between the ages of 4 - 16 years. Quite possibly one of the most rewarding jobs of my life, providing me with life skills & leadership qualities that will benefit me throughout my entire life. It was character building in every aspect of work, culture & life. As camp director I was also resonsible for liaising with the area/state director to instruct coaches under my supervision of company policies & ensure these were adhered too at all times. Ensuring coaches were punctual & providing the best soccer experience for the kids at all times was paromount for me. Travelling across the entire state of the beautiful CA from week to week to visiting states such as Nevada, Arizona and Portland to was a breathtaking experince I shall never forget, but no more so than making one week of every child I coached life an unforgettable experience.

Flyer Revolution – December 2003 – August 2004 – Leeds, UK

Junior Graphic Designer

Exciting role as a designer amoungst a team of 6 in an extreemly fast paced busy environment. Flyer Revolution was a trendy young design agency focused on print, posters, flyers, literature & PR across Leeds, & throughout the UK. Due to their popularity & reputation I was very proud to be a part of the team. Enabled me to gain invaluable design experience, bouncing ideas off fellow designers whilst learning current design trends & new software.

One to one client facing, & directly liaising with customers was a frequent yet essential part of building client relationships & harnessing the design ethos at Revolution. Taking brief from concept to completion was paramount in such a busy environment, regularly turning out multiple artwork on a daily basis.