Employment milestones (2005 - 2013):
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Senior UX / UI / IA Designer @ Public Health England (contract, February - June 2014)
profile: a .gov domain; please see for yourself on their website;
role: 4+ month contract assignment, working with a team of Scientist and Developers on UX, UI, IA and general
presentation of the Surgical Site Infection Surveillance Service (SSISS) web application.
I proposed and created engaging and efficient user-interfaces, streamlined work flows and clean layouts, constantly collaborating with the project team on one side and hospital end-uses on the other, to ensure the new implementation is functional and joy to use, resulting in a complete re-imagining of the entire application; -
Senior Digital Designer @ David Lloyd Leisure Ltd. (contract, September 2013 - January 2014)
profile: Much more than a gym :) their website
role: 3 month contract assignment, working within their Creative and Marketing Team, resulted in 60+ emails designs
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Senior Digital Designer @ QS.com Quacquarelli Symonds Ltd. (contract, June - August 2013)
profile: the leading global provider of specialist higher education and careers solutions; their website
role: work on designs for QS web sites: TopMba, TopUni, MBAdirectory and other with special attention to Information
Architecture, Flow and User Experience; brand and style guidelines development; parallel adaptation of sites
and designs to responsive or handheld-friendly layout; -
Senior Web Designer / Art Director @ UK2 Group Ltd. (permanent full-time, May 2010 - February 2013)
profile: UK2 Group provides a variety of domain name and web hosting services to individuals and businesses alike
and to date they've sold over a million domain names, hosted thousands of websites and manage dedicated servers
for customers all over the world.role: again, a small team so very broad responsibility: work on (re)designs of UK2 Group.com and UK2.net multiple web
sites; also front-end development and coding; work on Company's satellite brands: Virtual Internet.com, 100TB.com, Midphase.com, VPNHQ.net and other support web sites;for Marketing and Sales: thinking-up strategies, designs and execution of offers to the public on the web sites, banners,
promos, updates; execution of designs, hand code, upload to servers; maintenance of the web sites:for Development team: most anything that was required, sets of finished sprites, icons, graphics and designs of interfaces
and pages for their back-end systems; wireframing and flows; -
Creative and Lead Designer @ StaffPlan Ltd. (2009 - 2010)
profile: "Inspired Solutions for Community Care" software development house; StaffPlan was a leading supplier of
innovative rostering, administration, monitoring and point of care systems to the home care industry.
The Company became a target of a hostile take-over and is no more. Regretfully.role: a very broad in-house role, and much closer to an Art or Creative Director, encompassing all aspects of corporate
design, UX, IA, corporate communications, branding and marketing – for both internal and external use, on- and offline;
I liaised with all departments within the Company to design and produce most anything that was required and oversee brand, consistency and quality:for Marketing and Sales: branding and guidelines, (re)design and maintain web sites, design and deliver e-mail
campaigns, press adverts, brochures, product sheets, PowerPoint™ presentations and offline Client newsletters; also support to other sister/satellite Companies within the ACS Group StaffPlan Enterprise.for Development: layouts and designs for web-based applications and services and produce required finished graphics
like icon sets, sprites, buttons and banners; provided support and advice on the design of applications and services in context of clarity of purpose, usability and accessibility;for Training and Support: product manuals, covers, guide leaflets, brochres; liaise and oversee print production;
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Freelance on a paternity leave (2007 - 2009)
role: primary carer of my then 2yo daughter, Joanna; background freelance design; part-time contracts, courtesy
of Xchange Team, Devonshire Appointments and 3G Recruitment; daily online training with Lynda.com;key clients: Halesway Ltd. - digital and web site design, Dennis Publishing Ltd. - magazine and print design;
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Senior Creative Manager @ SOLO Digital Ltd. (2005 - 2007)
profile: a TTL marketing, branding, design and publishing agency employing 16 perms + freelancers;
role: creation, direction, design, artwork and co-ordination of digital media and content including web design, development
and marketing campaigns; CI and branding; team management; client-facing, pitching and presentations;key Clients: The Spectator, Spectator.co.uk web site, Camelot (National Lottery) media web site, London Metropolitan
University, The Kennel Club, Newstraid.org.uk web site, Task Ltd. web site, Reid Ltd. (financial), CMP Ltd. (financial),
CJC Ltd. (stock market IT solutions B2B), Solo CI and self-promotion;
Employment milestones (1990 - 2005):
