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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.

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