• Contracted to handover & transition the new team to understanding Vodafone’s Brand Guidelines.
• Recruited on recommendation of Senior Management at Vodafone.
• Became the main design resource for the online shop; producing product and service promotions
• Working remotely, but still being a respected, active and social member of the team.

Duties as Design Team Manager (2008-2009)

• Managed the team of 5 designers and 2 developers to deliver graphical assets, microsite design and build and production of HTML pages that were of a high standard and on brand.
• Provided design guidance and feedback to all third party suppliers to ensure brand protection.
• Managed the team through risk of redundancy at the start of this role – 4 team members subsequently were made redundant – without any adverse effect on production
• Saved Vodafone £100K+ by instigating a project to identify imagery on the website that had expired its copyright and tracking the expiry dates and locations of the replacement - this extended to third party microsites.
• Played a key role in the upgrade of the CMS to incorporate digital rights management, the ability to edit CSS files and create reusable HTML snippets.

Duties as Senior Designer (2005-2008)

• Created the Vodafone Online Programme style guide microsite – acclaimed as “of excellent quality” by Global Head of project.
• Designed microsites to the new Vodafone Online Programme style, and communicated the principals of the new design to existing and new members of the design team.
• Took on the management, scheduling and reporting of on-demand design & development
• Responsible for the Quality Assurance of all graphical output from the design team.

Duties as Lead Designer (2003-2005)

• Branded and delivered, via third party suppliers, all outbound email communications.
• Produced graphical assets, create and maintain pages within the CMS.
• Lead the team to achieve the rapid re-brand of Project Telecom website and intranet to Vodafone brand over the Christmas holidays.
• Designed and developed the Disability Services Micro-site, built to certified WAI standards.

• Operated as part of a team that designed, developed and delivered company intranet.
• Key role in designing and developing East Midlands Electricity website.
• Worked on accessibility of EME website to WAI (AA) standards.

• E-commerce, database driven website design and build
• Multimedia design and development for touchscreen kiosks and CD-ROM direct mailing.
• Developed touchscreen kiosk for National Tramways Museum, National Railways Museum, and 3 other European National Rail Museums - Finland, Sweden and Hungary.

• Founded the Official Nottingham Forest website with Production Director and maintained and developed the site for 2 seasons
• Speaker support graphics for conferences and product launches; for brands such as Pfizer, Pedigree, Bass, Campbells and Mansfield Brewery.

• Supported multimedia developers with screen designs and graphical assets.
• Design and proof of concepts for interactive kiosks in Macromedia Director; for Pepsi, Royal Mail, Nissan.