I have over ten years professional experience with online, interactive media and broadcasting in the UK and New Zealand.
I have recently returned to New Zealand after 8 years working in London. Im currently working at Shift in Wellington.
Over the last few years I’ve been freelance in the London creative scene, prior to that a senior creative on large accounts with Agency.com London. I have had plenty of experience being; client facing, leading and developing creative projects, managing creatives, overseeing and developing creative output with production teams and third parties.
I gained my Bachelor of Design degree in 1995. Since then I have gathered expertise working in various creative capacities for both new media agencies and broadcasting companies. In this time I developed a keen insight and practical experience of a wide variety of creative methods and delivery processes.
Several projects have recieved much praise in the industry - most notably; I was the creative lead for dulux.co.uk 2004-5, Senior Art director for sainsburysbank.co.uk in 2003-4 and produced the html version of the award winning tedbaker.co.uk in the year 2000.
Personality; self-starter, pro-active, friendly, focused, organised, driven, fun & social. I'm a fab creative to work with able to communicate with great passion and technical simplicity.
Professional strengths; Creative leadership, thought leadership, concept development, pitching, presentations, competitor research, art direction, online branding, guidelines, templating, process development, liasing and templating for third party development, liasing with branding and advertising agencies, mentoring and skills development for creative staff, brainstorming, storyboarding, graphic design, photo direction, illustration, 2D animation and a great team player.
Experience in a wide variety of projects; online branding, unique online offering development, site design and development, online applications and sales processes, Intranets, extranets, microsites and online marketing, CD-Roms, broadcast graphics. |
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Previous clients
Telcos: British Telecom, T-Mobile, T-Motion, One 2 One, Telecom New Zealand
Style: Yoo, Elliot Rhodes UK, Dulux UK, Ted Baker UK, Hughes Development, Samsonite
Entertainment: ITV, Five, Sony Playstation Europe, NZ Lotteries Commission Game Shows, CNN Media Europe, Television New Zealand, Nine Network Australia, Classical.com
Children: Klutz Books, Hallmark, Helios & the parent company, What Now childrens television NZ, LEA learning NZ, Watership Down.net, Electricity Corporation of New Zealand
Banking: Sainsbury's Bank, Deutche Bank, American Express, GE Money UK, Royal & SunAlliance NZ
Goverment: Frank, Radio New Zealand, Electricity Corporation of New Zealand
Sports: ALAC Sports Awards NZ, WNC'99 World Netball Championships
Agencies: Agency.com, Planet Go New Media, Tempz.com (UK)
Application knowledge
Photoshop, Illustrator, Freehand, Streamline, InDesign, Quark, Acrobat, Fireworks, ImageReady, Flash, Dreamweaver, Director, After Effects, Premier, SoundEdit, Office.
Miscellaneous information
Member of the Association of Illustrators
Registered sole trader
British & New Zealand citizenship
D.O.B 30 June 1972 |
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Experience
Senior Creative, Shift
2006, Wellington, New Zealand
Freelance Creative, Bindybonnette.com
2005-6, London, UK
Senior Art Director, AGENCY.COM
2000 - 2005, London, UK
Middle Weight Designer, Blueberry.net
1999 -2000, London, UK
Freelance Designer, Aquent Partners
1999, London, UK
Freelance Web Designer, TVNZ New Media
1999, Wellington & Auckland, NZ
Interactive Designer, Planet Go
1995-1999, Wellington, NZ
Part time lecturer, Wellington School of Design
1996 & 1998, 2D Animation - Computer Graphics Department, NZ
Relevant education
Bachelor of Design
1990 -1995, Wellington School of Design, NZ
Double major in Illustration and Computer graphics
Advanced flash short course
2001, Transmedia training London, UK
Creative typography short course
1999, Martin Solomon course for professionals, Wellington, NZ
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