Experience

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  Rapaydo Services

  • Designer (UI & UX)

    • Nov 2023 - Present

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  Truevo Payments

  • Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

  • Designer (Marketing, UI)

    • Nov 2020 - Oct 2023
    • Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

    - Design all marketing and communication materials, including for Social Media, marketing website and anywhere else they are needed- Work with sales team to design pitches and client presentations- Design small graphics, symbols and UI components for our design systems- Collaborate with our Tech team in shaping the visual language of our product- Create data visualisations for products and presentations- Gatekeeper for all visual content that gets released from the company, ensuring it is consistent, on brand- Help shape and refine the company brand internally and externally

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  Yoco

  • Cape Town Area, South Africa

  • Graphic Designer

    • Oct 2017 - May 2020
    • Cape Town Area, South Africa

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  Old Mutual South Africa

  • Cape Town Area, South Africa

  • Consultant UI/UX Designer

    • May 2017 - Sep 2017
    • Cape Town Area, South Africa

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  22seven Digital

  • South Africa
  • Financial Services
  • 1 - 100 Employee

  • Consultant UX Designer

    • May 2017 - Sep 2017

  • Graphic and UI Designer

    • Feb 2015 - Apr 2017

    OFFICIALLY“You will work directly with our chief creative officer, as well as the product design teams. You will be responsible for creating beautiful interfaces, designed assets and animation that demonstrate our design values.”IN PRACTICE - Collaborate with marketing and product teams and support their needs.- Create and maintain marketing and brand assets.- Ensure consistency of brand and brand guidelines across all design elements.- Develop creative solutions across the full spectrum of marketing and media channels, incl. print, digital, social media, press packs and internal communications.- Good knowledge of paid digital and social media specs. - Create animations for product app, website and demo video.- Create templates for content team to use on social channels, blog, MailChimp emails, and other channels.- Facilitate other design needs, such as promotional collateral, branded swag, document templates, and presentations.- Design and update 22seven branded investment fund fact sheets.- Excellent knowledge of the Adobe suite, e.g. Photoshop, Illustrator, Animate. And UI apps Sketch plus inVision.- Exposure or experience of how design relate to HTML, CSS, JavaScript.- Invest time in regular design forums and research sessions to continuously improve and develop all marketing material in line with current trends.

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  Memetic Films

  • Cape Town Area, South Africa

  • Creative whip

    • Jan 2015 - Jul 2015
    • Cape Town Area, South Africa

    Source visual references for films (documentary and fiction).Graphic design needed in films.Manage and assist in creative direction of 3D animators team.Storyboards.Character visual development.Office interior design concepts.

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  Moi

  • Cape Town Area, South Africa

  • Freelance Designer

    • Jun 2011 - Jul 2015
    • Cape Town Area, South Africa

    Freelance Graphic Designer.Websites Presentations (Prezi)Illustration (Shutterstock assisted)Corporate IDEvents graphics (eg Wedding, Barmitzvah)

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  Blapit

  • Cape Town Area, South Africa

  • UI, UX and Graphic Designer

    • Feb 2012 - Dec 2014
    • Cape Town Area, South Africa

    For this start-up company, I was constantly challenged in:Web interface.Gamification of user profile (see link to How It Works video). Social media channel art.Promotional titbits for TechCrunch.Visual concept development of responsive web and mobile app.I worked from home this whole period. Flexible hours and many late nights. A short Skype catch-up and collaborative ideation everyday with the product owners was extremely effective.

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  Redshift Digital

  • Cape Town Area, South Africa

  • Senior Designer

    • Jul 2000 - Jun 2011
    • Cape Town Area, South Africa

    Web, New Media, Online Gaming and Print design.Websites, emailers, screensavers, presentations, banner ads, teaser campaign, online bingo game.

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  HAL Interactive

  • User Interface and Graphic Designer

    • Nov 1998 - May 2000

    Update HAL Interactive website and corporate image

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  Benson Cairns

  • Interactive Designer

    • May 1998 - Sep 1998

    Interactive media. MWeb Big Black Box touch screen kiosk. Owners decided to emigrate.

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  Smith Group

  • Graphic Designer

    • Nov 1997 - Apr 1998

    Design agency. Print design, e.g. corporate ID, brochures, booklets, promotional items.