Gavin Powers Email & Phone Number

Thorne

Completely new chapter in my career, helping to assist people with learning disabilities in enjoying the fulfilled and varied life they deserve in a safe environment. Currently training at Hesley Hall, Tickhill and thoroughly enjoying it.

Sheffield

Mac operator at Sheffield-based business supplies company EVO Group.This side of the print industry is one in which I believe I can apply many of the skills I developed whilst working in newspaper layout.Using the Step Java client in the Stibo content management system, my role is to design and populate layouts for company marketing literature, using Adobe InDesign, while regularly consulting both publication and editorial content teams.A slight dimension jump for me (I moved from newspaper page layout and design, to brochure, flyer and catalogue layout and design).Not a move I regret. It's fulfilling to realise that the skills and aptitude I applied to one area of publishing are as fruitful and welcome in another.My role, at the HQ of EVO Group, the UK's largest office supplies group, is as action packed as any newsroom I've worked in, but allows me to focus my attention on more of the intricacies of page layout and detail. On a daily basis, demands can flit from a basic request for a regular repro cover overprint, to a complete rethink of a catalogue or brochure cover design. With much more in between.Using Stibo Step content management database software, the crux of my job is populating pages with fresh sales content, assisted and overseen by the firm's merchandising department, which, along with marketing, sets the expectations and briefs to which my studio works.My daily tools are Adobe Indesign and Photoshop, with a stiff measure of Adobe Illustrator and a generous dash of Adobe Acrobat Professional. A mix which seems to work well and doesn't leave me too hung over professionally when deadlines and workload get pacy.

Sub editor for the Scunthorpe Telegraph. Responsible for designing newspaper pages. Checking for mistakes and altering copy accordingly. Writing headlines, standfirsts, sub-heads, photo-caps, re-writing copy, and selecting suitable pictures for stories. Monitoring newswires for suitable content and pertinent stories.During my time at the Scunthorpe Telegraph I became accustomed to using the Tera Good News III system. As well as the use of Adobe Photoshop, Tera's Fred, Ted and Shell packages were my daily tools.

Doncaster Free Press. Doncaster Advertiser. Goole Courier. South Yorkshire Times. Thorne and District Gazette. Epworth Bells.Responsible for newspaper page design, choosing pictures for publications, writing captions, writing headlines, writing reviews and reports. Subbing motoring and property copy. Creating and manipulating images for publication using DTP packages including Adobe Photoshop.At South Yorkshire Newspapers (Johnston Press Division at the time I was employed by the company) I initially produced newspaper pages using the package 3B2 News. This system was later replaced with a Quark-based editorial package called Miles33. I had no problem migrating from package to package.

Early starts here. Re-writing daily, national and local news stories for a 7am deadline. Press monitoring agencies scour the press and the net for key words and stories relating to their clients. During this time, I wrote and edited copy (often re-hashed from other publications) for clients such as West Midlands Police, ASDA, British Telecom, Littlewoods, West Mercia Police, British Gas and the Bass Brewing group of companies.I also wrote and directly uploaded copy to the internet for several clients, using Macromedia Dreamweaver.

Hnd, Media Production

Activities and Societies: Rounded studies of both print and broadcast media. Second year specialism in journalism. I undertook this course.

A Levels English General Studies And Sociology, English Language And Literature, General