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Experienced Head Of Design / Creative Director with a demonstrated history of working in the graphic design and training & sales enablement industries. Strong communication, leadership and creative problem solving skills.18 years of experience with a background in design and illustration, corporate identity, web / digital design, aswell as a deep knowledge of print media. Leading teams consisting of graphic designers, illustrators, UX designers, localisers and artworkers. Built and expanded large pools of talented freelancers.Proven experience in growing and nurturing an in-house global design team, from 2 designers to 20 designers in 3 years, across 3 timezones (UK, US and Singapore). At every step retaining high standards and culture, servicing multi million dollars of client work, namely and recently in the retail sales enablement and onboarding training sector for the world’s biggest tech companies such as Google and Amazon, plus all company internal and marketing material. Contributing to the landing of large accounts such as Google L&D, Nokia / HMD US, Waymo, Wejo, Uniphore and AvePoint.Grown and developed team offerings from purely graphic design to illustration, UX, UI design and interactive learning design. Collateral includes branding, digital campaign assets (web stories, web banners, infosheets), video and animation storyboards, gamified platform design, UX and UI design, e-modules, e-newsletters, packaging, SWAG and merchandise, and illustrative character creation.Big on accessibility, diversity & inclusion, working with clients such as Google ensuring all design collateral meets digital requirements and output. With a team spanning multiple timezones, people management, motivation and development are high priority, on top of the standard and essential quality control and conceptual development. Project highlights include rebranding Google’s global retail ambassador training programme, a brand identity for Android Mobile's global features and products, creative directed two internal company rebrands, championed Google's DE&I and accessibility across their global training assets.Clients and brands worked with: Google (which includes Made By Google, Android, Chromebook, Google Fi, Google I/O, Google People Ops, Google Assistant, Hey Google, Waymo, Stadia), Amazon, Openreach, Hewlett Packard (HP), HMD (Nokia), Deliveroo, ReMarkable, Tepeo, Wejo, Britvic, PepsiCo UK, Campbell’s, Bel UK, Wagamama, The Royal Warrant Holder’s Association, Mercedes, Audi, The All England Lawn Tennis Club, The Jockey Club, among others.

Listed skills include Illustration, Graphic Design, Typography, Logo Design, and 18 others.