Paul Cotton Email & Phone Number

Sydney, Nsw, Au

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

I lead creative, strategy and design across experiential, content and communications for Jack Morton, Vocal Content and Weber Shandwick Australia with 35+ award wins and a passion for pushing creative and tech boundaries. Sitting on the senior leadership team, I oversee a talented multidisciplinary team while staying hands-on to shape pitches and drive bold, impactful thinking.Operationally, I have championed and implemented AI into our creative workflows, while also designing a traffic management system to better manage resourcing across my full time team and a raft of freelance friends.Clients include: Canva, Google, Amazon, Koala, Microsoft, Bethesda, Ernst & Young and government.

Sydney, Australia

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Sydney, Australia

As the senior leader, I deliver solid design thinking values, inspiration and creative direction across all aspects of the company. Working side-by-side with the operations manager and reporting to the directors, the business looks to me for conceptual input, art direction and copywriting guidance for both our internal activities and many simultaneous client projects.

Sydney Area, Australia

Director of all things digital and creative, with a strong dash of marketing.I head up a talented team of software developers, while handling the majority of design and UX work myself - occasionally engaging external service providers. This includes overseeing and being part of every step of the product development process for all of our endeavours, from the idea all the way through to release.Reporting directly to the CEO, I ensure that expectations are realistic and that my team hits deadlines with quality work.

Sydney

Delivered insights, data and creative tactics as a freelance strategist for a brief period in 2013. Over this period I assisted the Australian Cancer Institute in bringing their offline strategy to online, and contracted for various Sydney local agencies like Folk.

Tightly integrated into the creative team as their resident strategist, it was my job to produce and present engaging creative ideas from the strategic level down to tactics - based on not just the client brief, but meaningful insights gleaned from multiple data sources. This involved a mix of research, investigation, idea generation and the ability to work with a team - synthesising into not just what a client wants, but what they need.

Whilst working in the advertising industry I held a regular writing gig with Mumbrella & their sister publication Encore on the topic of the digital landscape. I often took on more lighthearted work for Ninemsn, lending my humour and love of the absurd to their entertainment team - and raking in millions of pageviews per article.

Specialising in the social side of things, I worked with clients and internal stakeholders to amplify messaging. Ensuring that digital campaign efforts were not simply received, but transformed into viable social objects and repeated across blossoming social networks.

The role that started it all - this largely included the creation and editing of both written and visual content for distribution on ninemsn, as well as other owned properties. Whether writing a theatrical review, or the equivalent of a Buzzfeed article (before Buzzfeed!) my attention to detail and love of digital content was finally paying off. A portion of this role was performed remotely, whilst living abroad.

As an English Teacher in Prague, my duties included lesson preparation, teaching general English skills to students aged 11 through to 17, with a focus on correcting and fine-tuning the spoken and written grammar of advanced pupils.

Digital Media Cert Iv, Digital Arts And Multimedia Design

Tefl Certificate, English Grammar, Teaching English As A Foreign Language