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London, United Kingdom

A multi-faceted role combining the highest standards of creative retouching with excellent organization to Produce and Manage projects for renowned photographers, A-list talent, global brand campaigns and international publications. Manage all elements of post production for the company's e-commerce division; Big Sky Agency.

Dubai

Defining image and post-production processes for the Middle-East’s largest and most ambitious e-commerce company. Coordinating retouching vendors across India and China whilst establishing visual style and protocol for the Dubai based studios. Managing a team publishing 5000+ products per week.

London, United Kingdom

Lead Retoucher for all campaign, marketing and e-commerce imagery. Role required excellent retouching technique with special focus on large scale CMYK print jobs.-Retouching Jack Wills’ trademark seasonal handbooks and marketing campaigns- CMYK print jobs in excess of 400 000 units.- Shoot and retouching style guides; defining the look of e-commerce images on Jackwills.com.-Management of freelance, agency and outsourcing.- Produced additional marketing and e-commerce imagery for the Middle-Eastern retailer Alshaya and managed the image sharing process with their teams.

London, United Kingdom

Creation of new post-production process increasing team output by 40%. A marriage of advanced image retouching, management & creative thinking.- Lead retoucher for homepages, online marketing campaigns and in-store POS imagery- Retouching team manager: creation of e-commerce systems geared towards efficiency, consistency and accountability; workload prioritisation, delegation, quality control and precision KPI trackers.- Designed Actions, templates and techniques enabling productive e-commerce retouching.-Implemented and managed studio collaboration with European e-comm retailer Zalando- Managed image asset sharing initiative between UO’s America and London based studios

London, United Kingdom

Managing a team of 20 Retouchers with a turn-over of 4000 products a week. A high pressure position requiring in depth retouching knowledge, excellent organisation and communication.- Production of editing guidelines/technique/templates/actions/training.- Oversee all image editing, quality control and consistency for ASOS.com product pages.- Prioritisation and delegation of workload, edit amendments and queries from entire business.- Retouching liaison; regular interdepartmental strategy meetings and presentations. Manage handover of work between Studio and Retouching departments

Top ranking e-commerce Retoucher in a team of 12, consistently delivering +25% on daily targets with an average error rate of 1-2%. Go-to Retoucher for new starter training, project work and team led initiatives.- Corrective e-commerce fashion, beauty and stills editing.- Lead Retoucher for Marios Schwab range.- Departmental representative and Studio Liaison

Master Of Arts (M.A.), Art And Media Practice, Merit

Bachelor'S Degree, Contemporary Media Practice, First Class (Hons)

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