Work Experience
Cromwell Tools
Web / Graphic Designer and Marketing Assistant
South Wigston, Leicester
(July 2013 – December 2013)
Designed Employment & Experience
• graphic design Images and banners for the main Website
• Edited, added and maintained content of the Website in HTML / CSS
• Created and designed promotional materials for the Website.
• Enhanced the design of the website to improve the layout, typography and colour to enrich user experience and usability.
• Created and designed pages for international catalogues and magazines on Quark Xpress to display images, products, prices and product information.
• Translated pages from English to Czech, Polish, Romanian, Hungarian and Slovakian and other worldwide languages.
• Researched other products and design ideas for the 2014 catalogue / magazine.
• Created mock-ups / conception of each individual page before published and signed off.
• Offered advice on design and creative knowledge for the entire catalogue and magazine.
Unión Surfera
Web / Graphic Designer & Social Media Specialist
Seville, Spain
(January 2013 – May 2013)
• Built, maintained and updated the company’s website using Magento.
• Created and designed a brand new blog in HTML / CSS using my own creativity.
• Created, managed and designed over 40 (in Photoshop, Illustrator & Seashore) advertisement campaigns / graphic designs / promotional material (varied by brand) for the website under each specific category and for the main page of the website.
• Managed and composed a user-friendly layout of the Website for an easy user interface.
• Understood each Brand and dealt with the brand individually.
• Managed and organised the company’s popularity within the Spanish community by creating music videos, social media campaigns, Tweets, Pinterest, Instagram, Foursquare, YouTube and Facebook posts.
• Designed and produced sketches of Storyboards
• Prepared and created direct mail leaflets, hand-outs and publicity leaflets
• Designed and produced HTML Email templates.
• Produced Blog entries and analysed media coverage.
• Organised and added new products to the Lightspeed system.
• Stylised the entire shop with the new season of clothes that arrived within the store.
Ruskin Design
Web Designer
(May 2012 – September 2012)
• Created and designed Websites for clients using Word press with Adobe Creative Suite (for images, buttons and other website elements).
• Designed clear, user-friendly layouts for each Website.
• Designed, produced Promotional material / Graphic designs and Banners for each branded website for each client.
• Conducted regular meetings with the manager to grasp knowledge on how clients wanted their websites to look with conceptual ideas and strategic methods.
• Created and produced potential hand drawn mock-ups of the website.
Yakub Chemist
Web / Graphic Designer & Developer
(August 2009 – September 2011)
• Managed, design and developed the website in HTML, CSS and Dreamweaver and in Magento.
• Created eye catching graphic design / promotional material and display ads and images on Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and Fireworks for the website
• Designed the website to enhance usability and improve user experience
• Designed and composed a selection of Layout ideas for usability
• Organised work with the use of all Windows, Microsoft Office (including, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Publisher, Outlook, Project etc.) and MAC OS Applications.
• Solved difficult customer queries over the phone, face to face and by emails.
• Managed a log record of all calls made.
• Processed incoming orders and made sure that they were delivered in a respectable time scale
• Managed diary additions and general admission duties had also been encountered.
University of Wolverhampton
Senior Space Auditor
(September 2008 – June 2009)
• Calculated and accumulated data of the student occupancy of all lecture halls and prepared figures to input onto the computer ready to be accessed by other auditors for research and evaluation.
The Mirror, Trinity Mirror PLC.
London, Canary Wharf
Junior Design Editor / Research Journalist
(September 2003 – September 2004)
• Researched and wrote articles for the Newspaper,
• Managed and help developed the Website
• Produced and selected advertisements for the newspaper.
• Designed graphic design images using (Photoshop, Illustrator and Fireworks)
• Organised, created, edited and arranged images in the Newspaper.
• Negotiated graphic design ideas and assisted with suggestions.
• Planned page designs with the use of Quark Express and InDesign
• Mock Ups on the Book for the Newspaper
• Assisted the Editor with editorials
• Dealt customer and client queries by email and face-to-face
Educational Qualifications
University of Wolverhampton 2008 – 2012
(4 Year Course including a Sandwich placement Year)
BSc (Hons) Information Technology Management
Grade Classification: 2.1 (Upper Class Honours)
Leicester College 2005 – 2008
BTEC First Diploma In I.T / Computing and Graphic Design – Merit
BTEC National Diploma in I.T / Graphic Design – DDM – Distinction, Distinction, Merit (Triple Award (2 A’s & 1 B)
W.V. Community College 2000 – 2005
• GCSE’s – All Subjects, Grade’s A – C
Personal Skills
Highly creative & think out of the box • Iconic graphic & web design skills • Exceptional keen eye to detail • Innovative, artistic & imaginative • Strong problem solving skills • Work independently or with a team • Ability to work under pressure • Highly organized • Strong communication skills • Groundbreaking managing skills • Ability to take on any responsibility given • Understanding of Branding • Empathetic • Creative solutions
