Co-Founder and Creative Director for a full service, award-winning digital marketing and design agency, currently numbering 30+ full time employees across design, development, advertising, social media and project management.Building a cross-discipline team from scratch to create a full service digital agency capable of delivering first rate design projects across all media. Directly managing and mentoring a team of nine designers, working across brand, digital, UX/UI design, video production and events. Providing creative direction across all client work and managing brand identities for multiple companies, from small start-ups to global organisations. Overseeing successful client branding projects to raise client profiles, leading in increases in funding, joint ventures and acquisitions. User research and design for online products and applications. Managing relationships with clients, partner agencies and suppliers to ensure seamless on-boarding and delivery, on-time and on-budgetFor examples of clients and projects, please visit smallgiants.agency

MarkitManaging the brand identity for a global financial information services company, including design and production of branding, advertising, promotional, pitch and interactive materials across a range of mediums, from printed collateral through to digital platforms. Managing contractors and external agencies to deliver creative solutions across product and corporate marketing.Specific roles and responsibilities: - Design of responsive websites- Creative direction for product campaigns and marketing- Managing the design requirements for integrating and transitioning acquired organisations- Creation and ongoing development of the company branding guidelines- Design and creation of digital assets, including client portals, LinkedIn, Twitter and corporate websites such as Kyc.com and markit.com- Design and template creation for key printed assets such as brochures and adverts- Creation of animation files for product promotions and event showcasing- Design, development and maintenance of a central internal portal providing access to key sales materials

As a comparatively small and nimble organisation, McGregor-Boyall was an exciting and energising place to work. The entrepreneurial nature of the management team fed through to everything we did as a company and consequently required the ability to think and work fast against often-unexpected deadlines and requirements. The enthusiastic approach to marketing and promotion gave me the opportunity to work on a range of interesting and challenging projects, from interface design through to advertising across the London transport network.During my time at McGregor-Boyall I managed all print and digital design requirements for the parent company alongside other sub-brands and initiatives such as womenintechnology.com.- Design and formatting of all marketing materials across digital and print. Projects were wide-ranging and varied, including anything from printed materials such as adverts, brochures and event collateral through to digital content such as Flash banners / animations, HTML emails and websites- Managing all relationships with external marketing suppliers, from print procurement through to website development companies.- Invitations, newsletters, posters (tube, bus and taxi), promotional and give-away items, research documents, etc- Maintaining and updating three websites using the in-house CMS tool (Dot Vacancy), including working with internal stakeholders and external web developers to ensure that websites met requirements- Designing, maintaining and updating all aspects of the company intranet.- Purchasing / managing the use of marketing imagery and graphics and maintaining a comprehensive library of all available materials.- Producing ‘identities’ and all design related materials for conferences and events

Working as a DTP designer with the in-house design team. Producing marketing materials, from fact sheets and newsletters through to adverts and logos, in accordance with the company branding guidelines. Advising marketing colleagues on appropriate formats for marketing documents.

Working as a member of the design and production team. Producing print-ready materials for national and regional newspapers. Producing high quality layouts to very tight deadlines in a high pressure environment.