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Nicolas Fitzgerald

Nicolas Fitzgerald

Senior Digital Designer

453 Caledoanian Road, London, England, UK, N7 9BA
+44 7889 268 234
English, Serbo-Coat

Background


About

About

I love working with great clients and agencies of all sizes. If you need an enthusiastic, senior digital designer who can tackle any task from from hand-coding HTML5 and Javascript animation, timeline based HTML5 banner animation tools (Adobe Animate 2018 & GWD), motion design (AfterEffects) and 3D + vector asset creation, do get in touch.I have 15+ years of Digital and creative agency experience, working on all stages of design, development and delivery of brand-driven marketing campaigns, as well as all kinds of OOH delivery. I design, animate and code HTML5 banner campaigns, for clients such as Artemis, Eon, Nestle, EA, FitBit, McDonald's, eBay, RAF.. I work with most banner platforms - Doubleclick Studio, Sizmek, AdForm including recent RM and mobile platforms like Celtra.

Work Experience

Work Experience

  • Digital Designer and Developer

    Aug, 2018 - Sep, 201822 days

    Animating H5 banners using the Greensock library and creating the HTML5 codebase for running banners on eBay's FFM platform.

    • Created codebase for FFM platform which a first for the agency

  • Senior Digital Designer/Developer

    Jun, 2018 - Aug, 20182 months

    At Leo Burnett's I was responsible for the design, animation, coding and management of all the banners for McDonald's account, as well as doing their portal skins and various other web assets.

    • Automation of coding workflow using the Bannertime generator

    • Animated with the Greensock TweenMax javascript engine

  • Senior Digital Designer/Developer

    May, 2018 - Jun, 20181 month

    Createdm, animated and managed all the HTML5 banner production fpr Doubleclick and adForm platforms

    • Worked on and built Google dynamic banners

  • Senior Hybrid Designer/Developer

    Jul, 2017 - Jan, 20186 months

    WCRS brought me in to lead the HTML5 rich-media banner campaigns design, development and publishing. I've created campaigns for Artemis, HMRC, RAF, CapitalONE and EON. Aside from banners, I was involved with motion graphic design and aimation for D6 units, SixSheets and various other OOH formats for Sky Broadband

    • Reintroduced Flash (currently named Adobe Animate 2018) for complex HTML5 banner creatives.

    • Contributed to winning several pitches.

    • Had the opportunity to personally illustrate for high profile website sites such as E.ON

  • 2D Vector Illustrator

    May, 2017 - Jun, 20181 year 2 months

    I was hired at Partners to create vector based illustrations, and a series of infographics for a mobile first global marketing campaign for EON. The main subject of the illustrations was electonic cars and various electonic vehicle scenarios

    • created some very complex vector illsutration infographics for eON's campaign to promote electonic cars

  • Senior Digital Designer + Developer

    Sep, 2016 - May, 20178 months

    Senior Digital Designer and front end Dev. Responsible for design + hand coding of integrated campaigns for Electronic Arts' HTML5/CSS/js rich media banners delivered through Google DCS/DCM, AdForm etc. Design work incuding UI and Sketch layouts for FitBit iPhone apps, as well as design/motion graphics work on numerous EA DOOH placements.

    • Created optimized workflows for HTML5 banner production.

    • Created automatization tools and apps, enabling QC's and PM's to publish to FTP and navigate LAN structure quicker.

  • Digital Designer and Developer

    Apr, 2011 - Sep, 20165 years 5 months

    This was the wild and woolly times during the transition period from Actionscript to HTML5, I freelanced for Wundermans, Crayon, Proximity, Razorfish, Meme, Dare and Hogarth.

  • Head of Interactive and Principal Actionscript Developer

    Aug, 2010 - Feb, 20116 months

    My role at RMG Connect was as Head of Interactive and Principal AS dev, leading a team of 6 Flash developers/designers creating interacive content and campaigns, mostly for the HSBC account. I was responsible for creative and technical aspect of coding, animation, graphic asset design+delivery on interactive HSBC online campaigns, as well as mentoring Flash/AS/HTML team.

    • The highlights of my time at RMG Connect was being able to create highly engaging and programatically complex Flash based campaigns

  • Senior Actionscript Developer

    Apr, 2009 - Jun, 20101 year 2 months

    Actionscript 2 OOP development. Built Flash frameworks, components and apps for large sites for clients such as nakheel.com and Shell.

    • We have produced some very tight OOP code during my time at Digitas

  • Creative Interactive Developer

    Apr, 2008 - Sep, 20091 year 5 months

    At Imagination, I worked on AirPoint Gestural Interaction and Motion Tracking hardware (nowadays we call that simply Augmented Reality) app development for the Shell Group. I also developed apps and visual assets for the Shell interactive video wall hardware (AR again). On the visual/graphic design side, I created 3D and animated assets used by the GestureTek hardware (Modo, Flash and AfterEffects).

    • This was my first contact and opportunity to work on AR software and hardware before the term was even coined

  • Interactive TV Designer

    May, 2007 - Nov, 20081 year 6 months

    At Y&R apart from branding design related work, I was tasked with creating graphic layouts, type-setting+typography, as well as asset creation for interactive TV adverts running on Sky TV. I also created assets for various interactive (flash) banners. The client was the Sky interactive TV platform.

  • Flash Animator and Coder (Senior)

    Aug, 2008 - Dec, 20091 year 4 months

    Designed, animated and coded highly interactive Flash banner campaigns for Barclays, at Dare

  • Principal Flash Developer

    Jan, 2008 - Aug, 20086 months

    Flash AS3/AS2, Lingo Adobe Air, Shockwave specalist. Worked on Links of London, Uniqlo, CWharton, Reiss, Kurt Geiger accounts

  • Freelance Graphic Designer - Interactive TV

    Jun, 2006 - Feb, 20078 months

    Freelance developer/ digital designer at Wundermans, designing graphic layouts and typography for interactive TV ads. Design and execution of creatives for interactive online banners. Clients: Land Rover, Microsoft.

  • Interactive Designer (Senior)

    May, 2003 - May, 20063 years

    As an interaction designer my role at RedBee included designing/creating and managing brand driven marketing campaigns across online, interactive TV, and print media. I worked on BBC internal work such as promotional Flash games and banners, as well as external clients such as Lexus, BT, NHS (Five-A-Day campaigns + sites).

  • Promo Director

    Jun, 2001 - May, 20031 year 10 months

    Online Promo Director - BBC Creative Services. Responsible for the entire BBC promotional banner service for the bbc.co.uk site, as well as all of the BBC promotional Flash content made at the time. Content creation such as online apps, games, as well as authoring bespoke 2D and 3D graphic assets for promoting individual BBC TV programmes - Blue Planet, Walking With Beasts, and larger scale events - BBC Three and BBC Four channel launches.

  • Freelance Flash and Lingo Developer and Designer

    Dec, 2000 - Apr, 20014 months

    Created entire Flash and Shockwave (Director/Lingo) based sites for viviennewestwood.co.uk, Tracey Emin, Brian Harvey, Bridget Jones Diary Film site. Designed and coded numerous Flash games, desktop apps such as screen-mates, screen-savers, cd roms. Created vertice-based 3D model assets for online use.

  • 3D Artist / Level Editor / Quake server admin

    Jan, 1998 - Jun, 20002 years 4 months

    BT Wireplay ISDN and DialUp Online Gaming networks. Specialising in QuakeIII client and Q3A server software (Quakeworld) as well as 3D maps creation and implementation. At Wireplay I also took on to admin and grow the already sizeable UK online gamer community on Wireplay.com and Gameplay.com servers - which at the time were one of the largest online PC gamer environments.

Skills

Skills

  • Coding

    HTML

    CSS

    Javascript

    DubleClick

    Actionsript 1-3

    Lingo

  • Publishing

    DoubleClick Studio

    DoubleClick Manager

    Celtra

    Sizmek

  • 3D Modelling + Animation

    3D Studio Max

    After Effects

    Premiere

  • Illustration

    Sketch

  • Typography + Design

    Photoshop

    Illustrator

    Sketch

Education

Education

  • Critical Fine Art Practice (CFAP), Bachelor, Central St Martins College of Art And Design, University of the Arts London

    Oct, 1991 - Jun, 1994

    CFAP

    Fine Art Painting

  • Fine Art Painting, M.A. Course, Fine Art Academy, Belgrade Faculty of Fine Arts

    Sep, 1994 - Aug, 1997

Awards

Awards

  • Best Online Promotion - 2nd Place , Promax

    Awarded on: Sep 01, 2003

    BBC Walking With Beasts

  • Best Online Promotion - Gold (1st) , Promax

    Awarded on: Sep 01, 2002

    Radio ONE - Fatboy Slim Mixing Game

Interests

Interests

  • Blockchain Technologies

    BitCoinSteemit
References

References

  • Joe Goldstein (https://www.linkedin.com/in/joe-goldstein)

    Nicolas is a highly skilled and experienced freelance senior level developer. His industry knowledge and ability to work with current trends as well as existing techniques makes him an asset and powerful resource. Devoted and passionate about what he does, I would strongly recommend his involvement for a wide range of digital development and design projects. He is also a very talented illustrator and proven "out of the box thinker". I look forward to working with him again.