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• Lead designer responsible for creating a new visual identity for the brand across all digital platforms, including website and social media.• Campaign creative from concept to content creation, including video production, motion graphics and digital assets.• Managing freelance designers and videographers to deliver assets within the brand guidelines and visual identity to publication deadlines.• Developing a social media strategy across multiple platforms, successfully increasing followers and engagement over 12 months.• Copywriting for social media according to the brand tone of voice and adapting copy for different audiences.

Manchester, England, United Kingdom

• Creative on an installation for Notting Hill Carnival at the flagship Adidas store, including bespoke typography, set design and overseeing the installation. Winner of 'Best Use of Instore Graphic/Signage' at the VM & Display Awards 2023.• Creative on a four day shoot for the Saucony Fall product line involving the creation of multiple sets and art direction on product shots.• Designed for a pitch deck, props deck and backdrops for a photo shoot for Saucony.• Developing creative concepts for an Adidas x Gucci collaboration, including creating the deck and presenting the pitch to the client.• Edited and developed a consistent motion language across multiple videos for Cordura.• Designed and oversaw the installation of an Adidas store takeover, including window display and dressing to entrance space.• Developed graphics and image grading for an Adidas campaign on the Sports Direct.• Designed the assets for the Sports Direct website takeover with Adidas, creating the image treatments with graphics on web banners and emailers.

• Developing the motion language for MIF21 and creating After Effects template animations for videographers.• Designing for large scale venue dressing and adverts, both print and digital with motion on outdoor LED screens.• Designing motion assets for shows, including editing trailers, kinetic typography, banners, digital 6 sheets and original motion graphics.• Creating identities with lead visuals for each commission for roll out across posters, print programmes and social assets.• Developing the branding for the Factory with the agency North, including an ident and components/ animated interactions for the new website.• Pitching a concept for the MIF21 brand campaign, including mock-ups across print, digital and motion assets.• Briefing and overseeing freelancer designers and motion designers for the Head of Design.• Creating templates for the Factory, including web banners, social media assets, letterheads, business cards, PowerPoint presentations, and print publications in Word.

Greater Manchester, England, United Kingdom

• Working in an internal design team across print, digital and motion for a bi-annual arts festival and The Factory, a new multi-million pound arts venue.• Developed a design system for social media assets, including an Instagram aesthetic to showcase the MIF19 programme and grew followers by 93%.• Created a sub-identity for MIF Live, a 7-week online festival during lockdown, covering three strands of live broadcasts and producing lead images for shows.• Created an identity for Virtual Factory, a series of digital commissions, to drive audiences to a new online platform and broadcasts.• Designing motion assets for shows to drive ticket sales and audience engagement. This includes video editing trailers for online broadcasts of performances.• Developing and creating identities for individual shows to express meaning to audiences.• Creating a design for an Augmented Reality poster for Skepta’s DYSTOPIA987 in collaboration with a creative technician and Skepta’s team.• Designing for print according to the Festival identity created by North and developing show identities in programmes, posters and flyers.• Designing pocket guides for artists, guests and volunteers that presented a large amount of information and directory services in an accessible and engaging way.• Creating templates for post-Festival reports to key stakeholders and sponsors with bespoke editorial spreads.

Manchester, United Kingdom

• Designing e-commerce and marketing assets across three brands targeted at different audiences.• Creating a distinctive visual language for product control panels; an expressive graphic style to demonstrate functionality.• Designing a B2B print brochure on giftware products targeted at Amazon; expanding on the established style for gift packaging to promote items over 43 pages.• Designing for social media, including graphics for feature posts and creating motion graphics for themed Instagram stories.• Leading on the launch of a cookware range, including concept creation, pitching options to internal clients, and rolling out the design across annotations, e-commerce assets, and emailers.• Designed original wall art for retail, and typography for a decorative photo frame. • Developing original iconography and illustrations for product annotations to explain functionality clearly.• Image retouching on products and post production on in-situ photography, including colour correction, editing backgrounds, and adding shadows.

Manchester, United Kingdom

Graphic design• Branding for Shortflix - a programme run by Creative England, National Youth Theatre and SkyArts to develop aspiring filmmakers.• Branding for Pioneers, a career development programme run by Creative England.• Responsive website design for an independent retailer, using Wordpress and CSS.Illustration• Illustrator of a children's book in close collaboration with the writer, with whom I've illustrated several poems.• Commissioned to illustrate a watercolour portrait for a wedding anniversary.• Commissioned to illustrate wedding stationery from the save the date card to invitation.

Manchester, United Kingdom

Project and line management• Transformed investigation processes in response to operational need, policy, or legislative change, through effective line management over four people.• Realised ambitious continuous improvement projects, from proposal to designing agile processes in negotiation with other teams and stakeholders.• Trained over 200 people on difficult legal principles, contingent processes, and systems changes in a fun, engaging way.Digital development• Enabled more agile handling of legal processes and difficult calls, using user-centred design to develop interactive tools.• Refined my visual management system for workflow data into a more simplified format with complex SQL calculations to reduce the need for manual processing.Digital design• Removed barriers to finding resources identified in staff workshops, by reimagining the UX-design of the intranet library.• Raised morale with presentations, featuring infographics and animations, for senior management to deliver at all-staff events.Print design• Increased productivity with innovative templates for guidance, forms, and banks that are accessible to different audiences.• Improved the transparency of complex investigations to the public, by creating leaflets with patient and NHS groups.• Cleared large backlogs through productivity drives, with interactive materials that encouraged competition in a fun way.Event design• Improved customer service through the creative direction of an away day for over 180 people, leading a team of 6 to deliver the event to budget.• 90% positive feedback that agreed learning objectives were achieved through a series of original games, talks, and stalls.

Manchester, United Kingdom

Project and people management• Acted up as the interim team manager to oversee the work-streams held by three people and attend project board meetings.• Led on delivering several continuous improvement projects to remove waste from operational processes and standardise practices when work was transferred between teams.• Mentored staff on the creation of management information reports, by sharing technical skills on how to use the analytics software.Digital development• Introduced visual management dashboards for display and interaction, letting teams monitor workflow data at a glance.• Improved the quality of referrals for decision, by developing pdf forms that are adaptable to the circumstances of a case.• Ensured concerns are only referred when appropriate by developing an interactive form with embedded guidance notes and structured fields.Print design• Designed internal campaigns and wrote copy to launch changes for a large directorate, including managing a digital message board.• Reduced data breaches by 60% after planning and delivering a 5-week campaign with info cards, booklets, and direct mailers.• Improved the transparency restrictions that can be placed on a doctor’s practice, by designing internal and external versions of the banks.• Cleared a large backlog through a productivity drive, featuring interactive materials to encourage competition mixed with illustrations to motivate people.

Manchester

• Delivered training to a large directorate on major enhancements to the case management system, including designing communications to launch the changes.• Researching best practice in regulation on monitoring systems concerns and developing an options paper.• Designing infographics to support project documentation, including graphs of key data, critical path diagrams and organisational charts.• Successfully managed a project to overhaul an existing investigation process from initiation to evaluation. This involved:1) liaising with the communications team, patient groups, and NHS stakeholders.2) providing project support to the manager, in terms of data analysis, producing an equality impact assessment, and maintaining the risk log.3) copywriting four booklets to help patients in the different nations in collaboration with the communications team and devolved offices.4) managed the project individually in the final stages to cover absence, ensuring all milestones were met on time for the agreed deadline.

Manchester

Casework• Successfully managed a high level of complex casework across various stages to meet service targets and legal requirements.• Summarised complex cases accurately and analysed the evidence against the allegations to ensure decision-makers took prompt action.• Managing relationships with external parties to gather evidence and set expectations on the timeliness or outcome of the investigation.• Designed a case tracker on Excel to make the work in progress more visible, whilst minimising the administrative burden through advanced formulae and conditional formatting.Project management• Volunteered for a LEAN project, including process mapping to identify waste in investigations and define proposals for changes to make the directorate more efficient.• Presented two segments on the outcome of the visioning session to all directors, including the introduction that set that stage for the proposals.• Led the visual management workstream to design a new way of presenting workflow analytics within the organisation. I took the initiative to learn SQL to develop a prototype dashboard.• Produced a detailed report for senior management, presenting an evaluation of the quantitative and qualitative benefits of all workstreams in the LEAN project.

Manchester, United Kingdom

• Monitoring press cuttings, assessing whether concerns have been raised about a doctor, and escalating to a decision-maker.• Managing incoming correspondence and assigning complaints to work queues within service targets.• Monitoring and preparing periodic reports to the Head of Section about an on-going Inquiry and advising on potential investigations.• Auditing stationary orders to reduce spending, by producing a spreadsheet of preferred products that moved the office to recycled alternatives.• Participating in a review of the process for allocating decisions, explaining the process to internal and external managers whilst suggesting improvements.• Improving record management for the team; collating key information into a shared folder on LiveLink.

Certificate Iv In Design, Graphic Design

Training in the Adobe Creative Suite, graphic design principles, and industry techniques through a range of sample briefs, including.

Master Of Arts (Ma), Political Science: Governance And Public Policy, Merit

Bachelor Of Laws (Llb), Law With European Law, 2:1

Activities and Societies: Features writer for Impact, the student magazine. Advocate for the Pro Bono Society.