Award winning designer with over 15 years agency experience. An early background in publishing and print, branding and identity, creative strategy and campaign based marketing, with over a decade in user experience, digital media and web based content.
In-house experience as Creative Director for a multinational organisation specialising in brand creation, product development and marketing, with agency experience as Art Director, Creative Lead and Senior Designer across multiple industry sectors. HTML, PHP, JavaScript and CSS development skills.
Since January 2022 I've served as Senior Digital Designer for Paragon Banking Group PLC with my core responsibilities overlapping across brand and digital on a number of key projects for the business.
Before Paragon I spent a year as Senior Designer and Team Leader for Verse Group Ltd, working predominantly on UX/UI design for website and app development, branding and identity for a number of start-ups and well established businesses based both locally and globally.
From 2013 until May 2020 I served as Creative Director for ROK Stars PLC, a multinational organisation specialising in brand creation, product development and marketing. Prior to ROK Stars, roles of Art Director and Senior Designer for a number of agencies including Brandscape, Box Clever Marketing, McCann and Wyatt International.
Highly creative with outstanding idea generation, visualisation and inexhaustible creative flow. Award winning design for prominent brands. Experienced and insightful but always open-minded and striving to develop further, learn more, understand better. Highly driven, hard working, dedicated and resolute. Able to engage, confident to lead.
Always happy to contribute or collaborate and give an honest and considered opinion when required. Experience of staff and resource management, workflow and scheduling, project planning, production and procurement. A positive influence in terms of work ethic, enthusiasm and energy. Supportive and fair, leading by example.
UX DIPLOMA
UX Institute, Dublin
WORLD BEER CHAMPIONSHIPS 2018
Packaging Category Bronze Award
ABK Wooden Tap Handle
AMERICAN DISTILLING INSTITUTE 2017
Excellence in Packaging Silver Award
Bogart's Gin
COMMUNICATORS IN BUSINESS AWARDS
Best Newsletter Design
MINI Plant Oxford
I'm creative by default and have always enjoyed art, design, print and print-making, brands and advertising. As a child I was always creating things. I loved drawing cars, playing with Lego, unravelling loo rolls and emptying cereal boxes to make a multitude of things. I've been into hip-hop and graffiti culture for as long as I can remember. I gained a love for brands and branding from a young age through the early 80's explosion of sportswear. From then it was BMX and then skateboarding - bike and board brands, graphics, magazines, stickers and posters. R.A.D. Magazine, The Face. Spraycan Art by Henry Chalfant, more graffiti. The Beastie Boys, Public Enemy, Def Jam, Nike - Just do it, Neville Brody, DEF II, De La Soul, Dance Energy. Manchester, Peter Saville. More graffiti. London. Elk, Mode-2, Nema. The Rave Scene. Jungle. Biggie. Howard Hodgkin. Naples, Florence, Rome. Devon. Fine art, the Renaissance, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci. Greece. Capri. Rika Magazine. Instagram. Humphrey Ocean, Stu Perry, James Jean. Vashti.