Working for various clients in Leeds, Manchester and working remotely for clients in London. Including: • GOOD, London. An integrated design and marketing agency. Working on: British Heart Foundation (remote working) • Vista, Leeds. Working on: Lloyds bank DM, Primark event material • Northstar, Manchester. Working on: Dorbcrest Homes Brochures • WDC, Formerly West’s, Manchester. Working on: Willis manuals for OEE • Morrisons. Working on: Point of Sale, Merchandising.… Show more Working for various clients in Leeds, Manchester and working remotely for clients in London. Including: • GOOD, London. An integrated design and marketing agency. Working on: British Heart Foundation (remote working) • Vista, Leeds. Working on: Lloyds bank DM, Primark event material • Northstar, Manchester. Working on: Dorbcrest Homes Brochures • WDC, Formerly West’s, Manchester. Working on: Willis manuals for OEE • Morrisons. Working on: Point of Sale, Merchandising. Available for freelance and permanent contracts across Leeds and the surrounding regions. Show less

Managing the creative floor scheduling work for two full time creative teams and various freelance teams as required. Working closely with the creative director to ensure skills match brief. Coordinating creative services requests with the creative teams, coordinating planning requests for the planning team and working with the studio manager to make sure all artwork production is properly resourced and correctly signed off internally. Personally signing off work from a production and quality… Show more Managing the creative floor scheduling work for two full time creative teams and various freelance teams as required. Working closely with the creative director to ensure skills match brief. Coordinating creative services requests with the creative teams, coordinating planning requests for the planning team and working with the studio manager to make sure all artwork production is properly resourced and correctly signed off internally. Personally signing off work from a production and quality control focus. Continue to be a hands on member of the creative floor, using the full creative suite from Adobe. Particularly InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator along with some Flash and Premier. Plus the usual Microsoft Office tools, mainly Word, Excel and some PowerPoint. Monthly reporting to the board on the creative floors general well being and specific problems along with up coming issues and resourcing bottle necks. Show less

Managing the merger of two companies cultures and systems in the creative department and managing the integration of new teams and new client work into the existing workflows. Running the production of six different monthly editions of a property magazine, managing everything from flat plan to sign off with occasional digital photography for covers and editorial articles. Hands on in the layout and production of editorial pages and assisting when needed on the property pages… Show more Managing the merger of two companies cultures and systems in the creative department and managing the integration of new teams and new client work into the existing workflows. Running the production of six different monthly editions of a property magazine, managing everything from flat plan to sign off with occasional digital photography for covers and editorial articles. Hands on in the layout and production of editorial pages and assisting when needed on the property pages when nearing deadlines. Show less

Ideas Unlimited became Ideas as the agency moved to bigger premises. After managing the relocation of the creative studio and all of the IT systems to this new location I went on to develop, with outside contractors and IT support, the networking and servers to support this rapidly growing agency. With clients ranging from SONY to Macmillan Cancer relief the work was varied and interesting and always busy. I was also managing the day to day running of the artwork team. At this time the company… Show more Ideas Unlimited became Ideas as the agency moved to bigger premises. After managing the relocation of the creative studio and all of the IT systems to this new location I went on to develop, with outside contractors and IT support, the networking and servers to support this rapidly growing agency. With clients ranging from SONY to Macmillan Cancer relief the work was varied and interesting and always busy. I was also managing the day to day running of the artwork team. At this time the company was still mainly using freelancers but eventually we were able to hire two full time art workers who I was managing and supporting. I was also helping the creative director with the day to day running of the studio and hiring freelance creatives and creative teams to cope with the growing work coming into the agency. Through this time I remained hands on in the artwork team. Show less

Managing artwork studio entirely staffed with freelancers for this busy Advertising agency. Also responsible for improving the Mac set up to include a real server instead of a shared hard disk and improving the network to Ethernet. Was responsible for managing outsourced IT support and troubleshooting Mac problems in house and managing email server. Also introduced sign off and approval systems. Was also hands on as an art worker. Developing skills in Quark, Illustrator and Indesign… Show more Managing artwork studio entirely staffed with freelancers for this busy Advertising agency. Also responsible for improving the Mac set up to include a real server instead of a shared hard disk and improving the network to Ethernet. Was responsible for managing outsourced IT support and troubleshooting Mac problems in house and managing email server. Also introduced sign off and approval systems. Was also hands on as an art worker. Developing skills in Quark, Illustrator and Indesign. Responsible for packaging dummies including a 4ft high pack of Wrigleys Gum and Whiskey barrel amongst others. Show less

Managing work flow through busy co edition publishers studio. Starting out worked with line art, mark up and paste up. Also airbrush and illustration work across a vast range of illustrated books. Oversaw the development of the company's first Mac based studio and the change over to digital and desktop publishing using QuarkXpress, Freehand, Illustrator and Photoshop. Ran and monitored back-up and archiving and oversaw production of artwork for repro in Hong Kong and China. Also managed… Show more Managing work flow through busy co edition publishers studio. Starting out worked with line art, mark up and paste up. Also airbrush and illustration work across a vast range of illustrated books. Oversaw the development of the company's first Mac based studio and the change over to digital and desktop publishing using QuarkXpress, Freehand, Illustrator and Photoshop. Ran and monitored back-up and archiving and oversaw production of artwork for repro in Hong Kong and China. Also managed and maintained archive of illustrations used in titles to enable reuse in later editions or different titles. Show less