Office Lead / Lead Separation Artist / Tools Programmer
CurrentHaving a lot of experience at the company, I now take a leading and advisory role within the office. This includes navigating daily scenarios and helping to evolve the company.Responsible for developing tools to speed up or eliminate tasks within the pipeline. These have become integral to the workflow, and are constantly maintained. Customer requirements can be complex and have a lot of variables, therefore the tools have to be easy for co-workers to use and are GUI driven. The results and outputs also have to be easy to interpret for not only internal departments, but also clients. Additionally, I am responsible for the majority of the artwork separations. This involves reducing client artwork to a limited palette for screen printing, whilst simulating the original image quality. I also assist with mockups that are created for the client, to demonstrate how their product will look. These have to be signed off by the client, or otherwise be discussed and revised.By staying involved with these additional duties, I can ensure the tools I’ve created are working as intended and can be improved based on usage and feedback. Good communication and discussion with each department is essential to understand their needs and to make sure that everyone's requirements are fulfilled.Transferable skills of note:- Good leadership and interdepartmental communication skills- Artwork optimisation with consideration for practical limitations- Responsive to feedback from peer/client review- Programming scripts/tools to improve pipeline and offering technical supportLanguages Used: Javascript (7 years), PHP (11 years), HTML/CSS (17 years)
