Content and marketing manager

• Oct 2022 - Present

Content and marketing coordinator

• Jun 2021 - Sep 2022

Administrator

• Apr 2021 - Jun 2021

Events – room manager, presenter runner, marketing 2D design

• Oct 2012 - May 2022

Marketing design: I have worked on a range of collateral from posters, banners, flyers, postcards, leaflets and yearbooks to brand extension work, including brochures, signage, certificates, and menus. As well as 2D print design for events. I have worked on the following events: BBC – RHS Chelsea Flower Show, presenter runner, 2013-18, & 2022 ROYAL ASCOT – Royal Enclosure badges (build-up only, as the racing was behind closed doors), 2020 ROYAL ASCOT – Presenter runner, 2019 HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISES – Discover, Madrid Room manager, 2018 HPE Discover showcased the latest technology developments in digital transformation from Hewlett Packard Enterprise and partners and brought together thousands of industry-leading minds for three days of learning, growth, and networking. ECONSULTANCY – Festival of Marketing, Tobacco Dock, London Signage design and room manager, 2013-14 The Festival of Marketing was a new series of events celebrating marketing, by Marketing Week and sister brands Econsultancy, Design Week, Creative Review and Data Strategy. It covered balancing data insights with creativity, B2B marketing and sales, and how to make experiences seamless across channels. ECONSULTANCY – Jump, Old Billingsgate, London Room manager, 2012 Jump – a conference and networking event for senior marketers and UK’s leading associations to discuss, debate and promote joined-up marketing with 100 speakers.

Art & picture editor, and marketing designer

• Jul 2009 - Mar 2021

I'm an Art editor with over 25 years' experience of B2B magazine publishing. My creativity skills range from designing covers, laying out pages, drawing graphs and making templates, to sourcing, commissioning, editing and manipulating photographs. Taking in corrections, as well as marketing and event design. Art editor: laying out a variety of weekly and monthly B2B magazine pages, ranging from: breaking news articles, complex feature spreads and front covers. Drawing graphs & logos, typography, image manipulation and taking in sub-editors' corrections were all a significant part of my editorial work. As well as pre-press production, transmitting pages to printers and signing-off returned PDF proofs. Post production XML tagging and making a large-print edition. Picture editor: searching for pictures from libraries, tracking down photographs from other sources, commissioning photographers to take images on location for news and features stories, liaising with contacts in industry to gain access and permissions, and negotiating fees. Editing photo shoots in Adobe Bridge, manipulating images in Photoshop, caption writing and picture archiving.Clients:PROSPECT UNION – Profile, Education Eye, Report and industry magazines; BRANDS AT WORK – Novartis; MARK ALLEN MAGAZINES – British Journal of Healthcare Assistants; BRIGHTON FRINGE – Julie Jepson; WILL TODD – Reverb, and CJ MEDIA – NHS.

Picture and production editor (maternity cover)

• Jan 2008 - Jun 2009

Researching photographic content for Prospect's members' magazine 'Profile' with a circulation of over 100,000, I sourced material from picture libraries, secured content from other publishers and free industry sources like The Forestry Commission. I also briefed photographers to take news and feature photographss to cover strikes, marches and other news, interviews and trade union-related activities. The union is broad and the industries covered were as diverse as the MoD, government agencies, BT, Nuclear and energy to teaching and engineering. I was able to build on my contacts from Emap and grow an extensive book of, both regional, and London-based photographers. On receipt of the commissioned pictures, I created selections of photographs in Bridge for the art editor, as well as airbrushing and editing photographs in Photoshop, then finally burning CDS, writing captions and keywords to archive the pictures in Portfolio. I was also responsibly for the production tasks of liaising with Pack Post and Royal Mail about inserts, wrapping and postage.

Assistant picture editor – part-time

• Sep 2017 - Jan 2018

Working remotely for Red Bull Media House in Austria, I edited and reviewed the commissioned content that came into the picture desk, in Adobe Bridge. Uploading Red Bull extreme sport photographs and video content to Reuters and Associated Press agency websites, ranging from cliff diving to F1. In addition, proofreading stories and researching material for writing captions and short pieces where there was no accompanying text. Some pieces I uploaded were picked up by the mainstream media and went 'viral' like the BASE jump by Red Bull Wingsuit flyers, who jumped back into a flying aircraft and the starling murmurations in Scandinavia.

Art editor & picture researcher,

• Apr 2005 - Apr 2006

Clients: EMAP HEALTHCARE – Health Service Journal, Nursing Times; REED BUSINESS INFORMATION – Optician;IPC – Caravan (three month's cover for the art editor)Art editor: laying out weekly and monthly magazines listed below, designing supplements and commissioning illustrators and photographers.Picture editor: Researching pictures on the weekly title Health Service Journal. I researched pictures and commissioned photographers to cover the vast array of news and public health topics affecting healthcare professionals.

Art editor of Emap Healthcare monthly journals

• Mar 1997 - May 2005

Art editor of all the Emap monthly health titles: Professional Nurse, Community Nurse and Journal of Wound Care. Responsible for all page layouts and covers, sourcing all visual content for the magazines by commissioning of photographers, using picture libraries or enhancing author contributions. Viewing portfolios and working with illustrators, while sticking to a very tight budget. Redrawing a lot of material myself. Production tasks: passing pages for press then checking cromalins and film back from printers. Organising my time well to meet different press deadlines.

Designer, Nursing Times

• Apr 1995 - Feb 1997

Designer on the art desk of this busy weekly magazine with a circulation of over 80,000. Laying out pages, contributing ideas, booking models and directing cover shoots in studios and on location like a portrait of the Ray Rowden, director for high secure services at Broadmoor high-security psychiatric hospital. I helped with the transition from 'lick and stick' to laying out pages on a computer using QuarkXpress. I successfully pitched to redesign the magazine with the senior designer.

Freelance designer and pictures, Women's Journal

• Jan 1995 - Apr 1995

Laying out pages on this monthly consumer title. Organising photo shoots. Laying out pages on this monthly consumer title. Organising photo shoots.

Freelance designer, Optician

• Apr 1994 - Dec 1994