Experience

Seeing as it has been some 20+ years since I last set foot within an educational establishment (other than for talks/presentations or for parent teacher evenings) I thought that apart from listing a few essential qualifications it would be more beneficial to document some of my previous work related experience on this page.

Educational Background

  • Media Studies, Chemistry and Physics to O level standard
  • Maths, English Language, Engineering Drawing A level
  • BTEC National Diploma in Computer Electronics
  • National Diploma in general Art and Design

Work Experience and Skills

  • Various roles within the graphic design industry starting with general pasteup, typesetting, repro camera work through to Mac & PC DTP and film / DTP / Digital output.
  • Darkroom experience including film processing and camera techniques.
  • Extensive experience of print and finishing equipment and practices within the printing industry.
  • Ability to work with CMYK, Hexachrome and Pantone spot colours including ability to work with duo/tritone spot colours
  • Font layout, typography and manipulation.
  • Studio manager of various design studios.
  • Head of Design within three print related studios.
  • Owner of Broadening Horizions since 2004
  • Ability to effectively transfer/convert work for various media, including litho print, digital print, fabric
  • Extensive experience working with vector images and converting low resolution raster images to scalable vector

Software Experience

  • Adobe Photoshop since V1.0
  • Adobe Illustrator since V88
  • Adobe InDesign since V1.0
  • Adobe Premiere since V1.0
  • Adobe After Effects since V5.0
  • Adobe Encore since V1.0
  • Adobe Pagamaker since V4.0
  • Adobe ImageReady
  • Adobe GoLive
  • Adobe Fireworks (since MacroMedia V1)
  • Adobe Flash (since MacroMedia V1)
  • Adobe Soundbooth
  • Adobe Acrobat Pro
  • Canopus ProCoder
  • Corel Draw
  • Microsoft Word
  • Microsoft Publisher
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Microsoft Access
  • Microsoft PowerPoint
  • MacroMedia Freehand
  • MacroMedia Director
  • MacroMedia Dreamweaver
  • Open Office Suite
  • Pinnacle Studio
  • Quark xPress
  • Toon Boom Studio
  • Cinema 4D
  • 3D Studio Max
  • Maya
  • Silo
  • Mudbox
  • Z-Brush
  • Infini-D
  • Vue
  • Bryce
  • Poser
  • Apple Final Cut Pro
  • Apple DVD Studio Pro
  • Apple iMovie
  • Apple iDVD
  • Apple Garageband
  • Yoyo GameMaker
  • Unity3D
  • ShiVa
  • Some C# / C++ Java coding knowledge
  • Web HTML/CSS/PHP/ASP coding in Notepad++