Employment
March 14 – Present Project Manager, Blue Kangaroo Design
• Leadership and project management – able to keep projects on track, deliver exceptional results and build confidence with clients.
• Strategy and awareness – capable of fulfilling multiple roles on a small team and able to interact productively with all members of staff on all departments, clients and suppliers alike.
• Experience – knowledge of a range of design channels, such as graphic design, print, web, digital, event management and logistical planning.
• Manage multiple projects in parallel, keeping all project activities moving throughout the week by managing the project teams.
• Single point of contact for clients day to day during the project life cycle.
• Responsible for ensuring client PO numbers received for invoicing.
• Raising project invoices within agreed project milestones
• Leadership of the creative team, holding project team meetings.
• Confidently able to foresee risks or issue and able to effective control for a successful delivery.
Jan ’10 – Mar ‘14 Junior Project Manager, Sheridan Design
• Role required attention to detail and great communicative, interpretive and interpersonal skills.
• Experience gained working within a brand strategy and communications agency, delivering new and innovative design creating engaging and results.
• Experience gained in coordinating design presentations, brochures, catalogues, leaflets, direct marketing, including POS and HTML campaigns, including design, print and web.
• Facilitated meetings with clients, and external partners, and confident in articulating opinions or suggestions of alternative methods.
• Management of the company forecasting sales tool and project management tool, generation of reports and handling of debtor and creditor payments to the business.
Apr 09 – Dec 09 Telemarketer, Due North
• Business to Business telemarketer provided e-sourcing and contract management solution software.
• Successfully hitting targets/ KPI’s as a part of the marketing team.
Sep 08 – Apr 09 Customer Options Advisor, British Telecom
• Responsible for the retention of dissatisfied customers.
• Trained in a range of sales techniques, including identifying key targets, customer aims and effective company promotion
Jun 02 – Sep 08 Various: Sales Assistant, Public Relations Officer
and Cashier Roles
• Working for many reputable clothing and leisure companies whilst attending Northumbria University gaining a BA Hons Fine Art degree.
Achievements
• BA (Hons) Fine Art Degree
• BTEC Diploma Foundation Art & Design
• Gained extensive knowledge within the Graphic Design Industry
• Execution, Management and Training of Sage Line 50 Account software
• Charitable – The British Heart Foundation – ‘Newcastle Stampede’ and various other events
Qualifications
2005 – 2008 BA (Hons) Fine Art Northumbria University
2004 – 2005 BTEC Diploma Foundation Art & Design Newcastle College
2000 – 2004 1 ‘A’ Level, 6 ‘O’ Levels St Thomas More School
