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April 08 – Present
Designer, Kall Kwik

  • Designing a range of material, including flyers, adverts, brochures, stationery suites and brand identities, for new and existing clients
  • Carrying out initial client brief meetings to establish design requirements
  • Producing concepts and proofs and progressing ideas to finished designs
  • Advising on stock and print options and cost implications
  • Amending existing artwork
  • Creating files for lithographic printing
  • Digital outputting of finished artwork, ensuring minimal paper wastage and optimising profit
  • Finishing

 

May 05 – March 08
Studio Co-ordinator, Marketing Communications, Skandia Life Assurance Limited

  • Prioritised and co-ordinated the workflow through both art workers and proof readers to ensure all deadlines were met
  • Maintained optimum use of resources and ensured enough staff cover during busy periods
  • Produced monthly cost information reports for management
  • Maintained the scheduling/planning database for all current and urgent work
  • Made amendments to existing artwork in both Quark, MS Word and PowerPoint
  • Produced PDF files for internet and print usage
  • Partial project management of various ad hoc projects


 

May 05 – May 07
Page Make-up artist, Trader Media Group (AdTrader)

  • Part time evenings
  • Planned and designed the layout of the paper twice a week ensuring correct position of paid advertisements
  • Ensured adverts were in the correct section and visually pleasing positions on the page
  • Checked pages for errors and organised files for print

 

 

Aug 02 – Apr 05 Studio Supervisor, Studio Department, Trader Media Group (AdTrader)

  • Produced visually pleasing adverts within set deadlines
  • Amended existing artwork as requested by the end client
  • Oversaw the training of new and existing members of staff
  • Liaised with the Production Supervisor to make sure any problems/errors with the paper were corrected as soon as possible, keeping refunds on advertisements to a minimum
  • Supervised the flow of work through the production department

 

 

Mar 02 – Aug 02 Studio Artist, Studio department, Trader Media Group (AdTrader)

  • Created and amended advertisements for new and existing customers
  • Improved working knowledge of industry standard software including Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and Quark Xpress
  • Single-handedly produced the Teledating and Equestrian features on a weekly basis
  • Made sure error levels were kept to an absolute minimum

 

 

May 01 – Mar 02 Production Assistant, Studio department, Trader Media Group (AdTrader)

  • Planned and designed the layout of the paper twice a week ensuring correct position of paid advertisements
  • Created and amended advertisements for new and existing customers
  • Single-handedly produced the Teledating and Equestrian features on a weekly basis
  • Made sure error levels were kept to an absolute minimum

 

 

Jan 01 – May 01 Home Loans Trainee, Global Home Loans

  • Data input of new applications for Woolwich mortgage products
  • Liaised with brokers to ensure swift completion of mortgage applications

 

 

Jan 98 – Aug 99 Customer Service Operator, Trader Media Group (AdTrader - then Diamond FreeAds)

  • Took incoming calls from customers placing private adverts
  • Entered information into the database to ensure the advert appeared in the correct paper under the right section header
  • Proof read adverts to ensure accuracy
  • Cleared back-log on voicemail system

 

 

 

 

 

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