Lastminute.com
(Aug 2011 – Jan 2012) ‘UI Visual Designer’
• Progressed career into leading online travel company
• UI Designer primarily for the shopping path of the live site
• Primary focus on hotels, flights & cross-sell categories
• Fast-paced agile environment working in 3-week iterations
• Continuous clean-up & improvement of UI backed by thorough testing
• Additional design resource for Travelocity UK, Travelocity India & ZUJI
• Opportunity to assist with new mobile design formats
• MVT (multi-variate testing) used for projects introducing more radical change. Closer partnership with I.A (information architect) in order to deliver effectively
• Team structure runs as an in-house agency, so gained valuable experience of time-management and running multiple projects.
www.lastminute.com
Tesco.com
(March 2010 – Aug 2011) 'Middleweight Designer'
• Progressed career into a successful Blue-chip Retail company
• Designer for the web-delivery & marketing team working predominantly on the new Direct/Non-food website
• Daily exposure working & maintaining Tesco brand guidelines
• Ownership of Iconography, setting new standard for Tesco
• Concepts & styling for enhancing all dept pages – including various trading banner spaces and bringing photographic consistency to Tesco online, through improved dialogue with the print/pos teams and best practice for image-sourcing
• Worked with ‘Flow’ user-experience agency on the checkout process to help improve the customer journey
• Spent a week helping at Mount Farm design agency, who create the Tesco Direct catalogue and art-direct photoshoots
• Responsible for writing the core guidelines for third-party sellers on the marketplace aspect of the new website
• Smart-phone dept icons & Tesco.com homepage re-design
www.tesco.com
Jack Wills
(2010) ‘Freelance Designer’
Temp work to help with preparations for the Spring season. This included research, concept artwork and flash animation
EMI Music
(2006 – 2009) ‘Graphic Designer’
• Progressed career into highly regarded major record company
• Created unique artwork assets, concepts & branding, all via artist/management briefs or sometimes open brief
• Improved typography and image layout, manipulating artwork across packaging, POS and delivery to print-ready status
• Adapting artwork assets for the web – including html newsletters, e-commerce web banners, youtube & myspace re-skin design & coding, and flash animation.
A selection of key projects I worked on included:
• Blur (2009) Midlife: A Beginner’s Guide
• EMI Consumer Segmentation Posters – Executive presentationstandard set of 14x A1 posters to visually represent UK music consumers
• Sigur Rós (2007-2009) – closely helped out with layout/design of the band’s artwork across several record releases including: CD singles, albums, DVDs, limited edition special packaging & POS
www.emi.com
The Sanctuary Music Group
(2005 – 2006) ‘Graphics Coordinator’
• Advanced career by moving to larger high profile company
• Designed CD & DVD artwork across different music genres
• Produced advertising and marketing materials for the relevant consumer markets
Alain Charles Publishing Ltd
(2005) ‘Assistant Production Editor’
• Began working career by moving into business publishing
• Created layout and advertising for 8 International business magazines with a wide range of subjects from Oil Industry to Business Communications, and Performing Arts
www.alaincharles.com