Mike Taylor Email & Phone Number

Topsham, Exeter

At D2 Creative, I am responsible for:• Coordinating and managing a group of internal and external stakeholders: creative team, technical team (front-end and back-end developers), junior resources, planning and client services • Coordinating websites build, mobile apps / website production• Creating detailed production timelines and managing the delivery of digital projects from conception to completion• Scheduling resources: identifying resources, booking traffic, briefing designers/UX and offering creative input throughout concept and design phases• Full lifecycle project management; creating and maintaining schedules for multiple phases and disciplines, across a variety of multiple projects running concurrently.

Exeter

• Director role managing digital development team.Working with clients at a strategic level to help map out and define the end-to-end user journey across multiple digital channels. Liaising externally with clients, third party suppliers, SEO consultants and internally with the design and development teams to ensure a client’s expectations were met on time, and on budget. Managing digital team of 10 and wider agency.

Exeter

• Website designer and developer. Now working as part of a small team to design and build medium and large websites covering a range of sectors including e-commerce. Working alongside other designers to plan and map larger projects; sourcing and managing external suppliers on complex coding and database integration requirements; reported to partners and senior designers on digital trends; working with clients on planning and directing their digital requirements. Responsible for recruiting and building the digital department.

Exeter

• Traditional print design and website designer for the regional tourist board for the South West of England. Designed and built a numerous websites for SWT and various other partner and member tourism organisations; partnered with a third party development company to design and build larger, database driven websites as requirements grew and technology improved. Traditional print covered all promotional material: pull-ups; display stands; posters, membership documentation, leaflets and brochures in multiple languages; ordering scans and film; speccing and buying print; checking and signing-off print runs.

Crediton, Devon

• A typical jobbing designer and artworker for a small print works.Designing and artworking everything from business cards to flyers, leaflets and brochures. An excellent ‘apprenticeship’ in traditional artwork and printing methods: creating camera ready artwork; film and plate processing; liaising with reprographics suppliers for Matchprints, film and scans; writing print specs and liaising with external printers.