​Harland & Wolff, founded in 1861, is renowned for its shipbuilding expertise. Famously, it built the RMS Titanic. The company also specialises in offshore and renewable energy projects. Harland & Wolff continues to uphold engineering excellence and innovation while maintaining its historic reputation in shipbuilding.• Developing and implementing an in-house design capability for Harland & Wolff including management of any contracted services required• Ensuring brand guidlines are met and all material is produced to a high standard• Collaborating with senior leadership to oversee the planning and execution of all design materials.• Working across multiple channels to deliver social media campaigns and marketing materials including event graphics• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to create design collateral required to support campaigns that effectively target key customer segments and partner organisations• Building and maintaining relationships with key stakeholders including clients, industry partners, media and marketing suppliers• Support Harland & Wolff Group to plan, develop and execute our global exhibition, events and conference strategy to support the commercial team and strategic goals• Developing and expanding in-house branded merchandise, signage and assetsKey achievements• Creative direction and design of campaigns, exhibition stands and publicity material leading to the successful bid of a £120million international shipbuilding contract• Design and production of the company Annual Report• Design and branding of exhibition stands for global company networking events• Project lead on the development of a new company website with e-commerce functionality

Southbank Investment Research is an independent financial research publishing company, delivering regular incisive research on disruptive technologies, value investing, cryptocurrencies, and global economics.• Key member of the Senior Leadership team, collaborating with the Publisher, CMO and Head of Compliance on business strategy, idea generation, innovation and business operations• Managing and mentoring a team of designers and developers to establish a strong collaborative team culture in a global organisation with affiliates in The United States, France, Ireland, Australia, Japan and Brazil.• Facilitating workshops to creatively direct marketing campaigns, content and monthly titles to ensure strong design and consistent brand guidelines are at the forefront of all published material• Leveraging data-driven analysis to identify areas of improvement, leading to informed, evidence based decision making• Managing the Operations Team to produce strong digital design and online content to the companies database of subscribers• AI and automation champion to aid advanced working practices and minimise company overheads with a relentless pursuit of new areas of innovation• Leading daily scrum meetings to ensure deadlines are adhered to• Implementing and managing workflow streams including Monday.com to fuel team collaboration and productivity at scale• Designing and building websites in a variety of applications including Shopify, Wix, Wordpress and Contentful• Designing promotional material for online and print platforms• Optimising the UX, UI and CX of subscriber-based websitesKey achievements• Re-branding the Southbank company identity to attract new customers to the business. Strengthen brand awareness, whilst enhancing the core values of the company• Implementing new design practices within the team to deliver clear, strong design solutions and successful promotions• Generating revenue by increasing sales and growth of the online subscriber base.

Agora Financial has been a leading innovator in the financial advice industry for over 25 years. Their honest, unconventional, unbiased and independent financial forecasts have been recognised by numerous media sources including Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Reuters, the Financial Times and many more.• Leading and coaching a matrix team of Junior Designers, Freelance Designers, Copywriters and Proof-readers • Collaborating with the Managing Director and Associate Publisher to deliver successful campaigns• Allocating work, facilitating meetings, setting deadlines and coordinating the entire department workflow• Liaising with marketing teams and senior executives to ensure design projects were completed on time and to budget• Designing promotional material for both online and print platforms• Optimising the user experience, user interface and customer experience of subscriber-based websitesKey achievements• Increased sales and growth of the online subscriber base by delivering clear, strong design solutions and successful promotions• Increased readership of the flagship newsletter to 84,000 and the paid subscriber base to 31,000 increasing company revenue

• Leading an internal design team plus third-party suppliers including freelancers and print houses• Delivering pre-sales designs for online promotions and web advertising • Completing post-sales designs for HTML emails, reports, books, newsletters and magazines • Designing graphics and advertisements for the website • Liaising with the web development team to ensure strong and consistent UX, UI and CXKey achievements• Delivering financial titles, subscriber-based websites and newsletters to a high quality and within strict deadlines• Successfully turning around a failing title by building the subscriber base from 8,000 to 50,000 through the effective design of multiple online promotions

Clients included: The Fostering Network, The Core Consultancy, GPH Datacoms and Child Concern.

Duties: Design, Page Layout, Image Manipulation, Scanning, Illustration, Typesetting. Liaising with clients, printers, out-put bureaus, courier companies. Office Manager in the absence of employer, quoting, invoicing.Design for Flyers, Brochures, Leaflets, CD’s, CD covers, Posters, Exhibitions, Artworking.Software: QuarkXPress, Abode Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop. Web Design Using Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash.