Experience

East Sussex College Group

• United Kingdom
• Education Administration Programs
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Mid-weight Graphic Designer

  • Feb 2023 - Present

  Coordinating and designing a range of promotional printed materials including the administration, scheduling and publishing plans. Organising meetings with curriculum staff to co-ordinate the production of all marketing materials. Preparing concepts from an initial brief. Enforcing production quality control schedule and ensuring official procedures are adhered to. Monitoring, scheduling and producing art-work for all pre-booked advertising and advertorial dates that will require art-working in… Show more Coordinating and designing a range of promotional printed materials including the administration, scheduling and publishing plans. Organising meetings with curriculum staff to co-ordinate the production of all marketing materials. Preparing concepts from an initial brief. Enforcing production quality control schedule and ensuring official procedures are adhered to. Monitoring, scheduling and producing art-work for all pre-booked advertising and advertorial dates that will require art-working in time for external print and production deadlines. Ensuring branding guidelines documents are updated and maintained, ensuring that they are also adhered to by the wider college. Show less



Brunel University London

• United Kingdom
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Creative Designer

  • Oct 2022 - Jan 2023

  London Area, United Kingdom Supporting a busy in-house design and print team at a leading multidisciplinary research-intensive technology university. Producing a range of core publications and print. Marketing the university and enhancing its image and reputation to a wide range of customers and stakeholders. Working directly with internal clients, advising on best practice and creative development of concepts and ideas. Maintaining the Brunel University brand and house style. Tracking executions of marketing and… Show more Supporting a busy in-house design and print team at a leading multidisciplinary research-intensive technology university. Producing a range of core publications and print. Marketing the university and enhancing its image and reputation to a wide range of customers and stakeholders. Working directly with internal clients, advising on best practice and creative development of concepts and ideas. Maintaining the Brunel University brand and house style. Tracking executions of marketing and communication activity and ensure that they are carried out as per brand expectation. Show less



Sage Homes

• United Kingdom
• Real Estate
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Lead Graphic Designer

  • May 2022 - Sep 2022

  London, England, United Kingdom Sage Homes is an innovative Blackstone and Regis business addressing the housing crisis in England by making good homes affordable for people across the country who need them. My role was supporting a busy in-house Marketing & Communications team within England’s largest provider of newly built affordable housing. Maintaining the Brand Toolbox & hub and training colleagues. Promoting and developing brand templates. Tracking all executions of marketing and communication activity and ensure that… Show more Sage Homes is an innovative Blackstone and Regis business addressing the housing crisis in England by making good homes affordable for people across the country who need them. My role was supporting a busy in-house Marketing & Communications team within England’s largest provider of newly built affordable housing. Maintaining the Brand Toolbox & hub and training colleagues. Promoting and developing brand templates. Tracking all executions of marketing and communication activity and ensure that they are carried out as per brand expectation. Working directly with internal clients, advising on best practice and creative development of concepts and ideas. - Instrumental in the creative design of all assets and collateral to launch new housing developments, leading to some of the most successful launches to date. - Part of a project to bring all marketing activity within the new branding and helped towards the creation of toolkits for brochures, email and digital assets ensuring the marketing team could become more efficient and effective. - Toolkits savings to the business estimated at £100k. Show less



Optivo

• United Kingdom
• Non-profit Organizations
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Senior Graphic Designer

  • Jun 2015 - May 2022

  Croydon, England, United Kingdom I was accountable for actively performing as a member of an award winning in-house communications team in the housing sector. I efficiently lead overall project planning, execution, and delivery while staying on schedule and under budget. I determine and fulfill client design needs in accordance with company brand guidelines to achieve and maintain optimum customer satisfaction. I also create and maintain conceptual designs for a wide range of communication platforms. - Secured £653 million… Show more I was accountable for actively performing as a member of an award winning in-house communications team in the housing sector. I efficiently lead overall project planning, execution, and delivery while staying on schedule and under budget. I determine and fulfill client design needs in accordance with company brand guidelines to achieve and maintain optimum customer satisfaction. I also create and maintain conceptual designs for a wide range of communication platforms. - Secured £653 million in grant funds by enabling Optivo to be chosen as one of nine housing associations to be awarded preferred Strategic Partner status by Homes England via design and coordination of winning bid document. - Earned TPAS 2016 Award (Regional and National) for best Annual Report. Show less



Self-employed

• Real Estate
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Freelance Graphic Designer

  • Mar 2012 - Jun 2015

  Brighton, United Kingdom In my former role, I was performing numerous design activities for a variety of companies, including PayPal, Virgin Atlantic, Close Brothers Asset Management, All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Global Health and APPG on Mental Health, The Salvation Army, National Multiple Sclerosis Society, Southern Housing Group, the Medical Defence Union (MDU) and Department for Transport. - Conceived and devised school's magazine and conference material for STEMtech - the UK's largest conference for… Show more In my former role, I was performing numerous design activities for a variety of companies, including PayPal, Virgin Atlantic, Close Brothers Asset Management, All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Global Health and APPG on Mental Health, The Salvation Army, National Multiple Sclerosis Society, Southern Housing Group, the Medical Defence Union (MDU) and Department for Transport. - Conceived and devised school's magazine and conference material for STEMtech - the UK's largest conference for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Maths education supported by LEGO Education. - Created fundraising material for "The Khaled Hosseini Foundation" a nonprofit that provides humanitarian relief and shelter to families, economic opportunity for women, and healthcare and education for children in Afghanistan, founded by the best-selling author of "The Kite Runner". Supported by UNICEF and UNHCR. Show less



Fonda

• United States
• Restaurants
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Graphic Designer

  • Jan 2003 - Feb 2012

  During this experience, design briefs were formulated and developed, as well as design briefs were interpreted by me. I also designed, conceptualised, interpreted, and provided clients requirements in accordance with brand specifications. Met or exceeded all time and budgetary deadlines on multiple projects. - Created branding for James Whale Fund for Kidney Cancer (now Kidney Cancer UK), the UK's leading specialist kidney cancer charity. - Designed 60th-anniversary logo for TetraPak;… Show more During this experience, design briefs were formulated and developed, as well as design briefs were interpreted by me. I also designed, conceptualised, interpreted, and provided clients requirements in accordance with brand specifications. Met or exceeded all time and budgetary deadlines on multiple projects. - Created branding for James Whale Fund for Kidney Cancer (now Kidney Cancer UK), the UK's leading specialist kidney cancer charity. - Designed 60th-anniversary logo for TetraPak; promoted to over 60 national websites and widely distributed across marketing publicity. Show less

• Freelance Graphic Designer

  • Oct 1999 - Nov 2002

  London and Sussex Worked for a number of design agencies in London and the South East. They included: Design Research Unit - Design Bridge - Smith & Milton - Red Design - Pentland Brands Key achievements include: British Rail - Created urban wayfinding maps for Edinburgh Waverley, King’s Cross, London Victoria and Manchester Piccadilly whilst at Design Research Unit United Biscuits - Created concepts for KP Nuts.