Adie Flute Email & Phone Number

Leicester, Gb

United Kingdom

Producing work directly for clients (including Alcon in Switzerland) but in the main providing creative and strategic services for other agencies around the UK.When working with 3rd party agencies, my role varied and crossed over a wide array of core skills (listed below), and encompassed day-to-day working scenarios where I was managing teams, working as part of a broader marketing team, and as a single design/marketing entity. Alongside producing work for each agency’s roster of clients, I have also undertaken numerous projects surrounding promotional materials and pitch work for the agencies themselves.Core skills:• Brand, marketing and digital strategy writing• Brand creation, development and compliance• Creative and team leadership• Client communication and coordination• Project management• External team/supplier management• Campaign development• UI/UX planning and design• Traditional design• Event and exhibition design• Base-level competency in copywritingThe wide geographical spread and number of agencies I work with has been achieved almost entirely through recommendation, combined with retention, therefore building up the active list of agency clients over time. This then lays testament to my ability to work with others (both remotely and in person), to excel in carrying out a wide variety of brand, marketing and design tasks, and above all, to achieve results for their clients that are of the highest standard.

Yorkshire

A boutique marketing agency, producing high-calibre work for international, national and SME clients (including white-label work for other UK creative agencies). Projects undertaken spanned a wide gamut of traditional and digital requirements, encompassing a broad spectrum of personal skills. The high standard of end results was achieved through a combination of my own personal skills, alongside managing and maintaining a first-class network of freelance professionals to deliver high-quality work within established timelines and budgets.Alliance’s underlying ethos was to combine big agency thinking and professionalism with the kind of attentive client servicing and value often associated with smaller agencies. Skills employed directly included:• Brand, marketing and digital strategy writing• Brand creation, development and compliance• Creative and team leadership• Client communication and coordination• External team/supplier management• UI/UX planning and design• Traditional design work (annual reports, press advertising etc)• Event and exhibition designAs well as the UK, Adie has also worked with overseas clients and contacts, from the US and continental Europe to the Middle East.

Yorkshire

Deviate quickly established itself as one of the fastest-growing design agencies in the Yorkshire region. Founded in 2003 by myself, with a handful of small local clients, I initially grew the business through my own brand, design and marketing skills, before expanding into a team of designers, developers, copywriters and client support staff. Moving into a managerial role, with creative hands-on applied as and when required, the business undertook work for an enviable roster of national and international brands, which in turn led to both turnover and net profit rising at an impressive rate.Overall business growth was achieved solely by ensuring that produced work was of the very highest standard and was on budget and on time. The combination of attention to detail, rigorously high standards, and strict project time management control led towards numerous recommendations and unprompted letters of thanks from clients. Alongside this, the agency successfully won a number of key industry awards and received recognition from industry magazine The Drum, who listed Deviate as a challenger of note to other older agencies within the region.A notable client achievement during my time with Deviate, occurred within the eRetail sector where my work helped to take the relatively new sports nutrition brand MyProtein (solely selling directly to the public online) to a position where the owner was able to sell the company to The Hut Group in 2011 for £60m - just after the company’s sixth birthday.

Working not only as part of the studio team but also established as the main client contact. Studio work covered all media disciplines including Director, Photoshop, Freehand and a number of audio applications.Responsibilities included programming, design, production, soundtrack composition, communication with clients and suppliers, project management, marketing strategies, business planning and general day-to-day management.

Working as part of the studio team to design, produce, programme and create a cross range of media for a great number of multimedia applications, including websites, CD-ROMs, installations and presentations.Responsibilities included designing, programming, video production and editing, design, soundtrack composition, communication with clients and suppliers, hiring creatives and project management.

Lecturing to Degree, HND, ND and business personnel in web, multimedia (authoring and design) digital audio and music technology.Responsibilities included continued support to both staff and students on a design and technical level. The assessing of students’ work, both within the department and externally, produced a need for regular liaisons with final-year tutors and Sheffield University moderators.To the end of my employment I was actively involved in European Social Fund GB projects as part of Barnsley’s regeneration programme. The project required teaching local business personnel, including British Steel (now known as Corus) and Lavender International NDT employees, the uses of, and how businesses can improve from, ICT (specifically multimedia).