2006

Exhibition Designer/3d Graphic Artist

Harrisons Signs, Link House, Green Lane Industrial Estate

Clifton , York YO30 5PY

I returned to Harrisons as a designer in June of 2006. I was employed to support the Sales team with speculative bids for PoS and Exhibition work. Drawing on my previous work as an Exhibition artist with experience of design and construction I produced designs for client approval.

2002-2006

IT/CAD Technician

York St John College , Lord Mayors Walk, York YO31 7EX

Provide technical support and some teaching assistance to the Design Technology and Fine Art departments of the School of Arts .

I have complemented and enhanced the departments work, in particular in the production of a digital archive of students work and writing interactive tutorials to support the first year CAD Textiles students. I also was responsible for building and administering the department LAN, first-line troubleshooting, operating the Stork Amber wide format textile printer, purchase of materials and assisting the students in technical matters.

I have received training in Archicad, U4ia Textile design suite and Stork Amber System Textile Printer

1994-2002 Exhibition artist / Prop maker

Harrisons Signs,Link House, Green Lane , Clifton ,

York Y030 5PY

Duties included: Designing and manufacturing exhibition stands, displays and signage for companies that include Nestle UK , Yorkshire Water and Jarvis. I was regularly involved with all aspects of production and often took projects from an initial consultation with the client to completion. As a result I have gained a wide knowledge of digital imaging and manufacturing techniques as well as extensive workshop skills in wood, laminates and plastics.

An important part of my of my post was to mentor apprentices and in preparation for this I attended a course in "Training effectively" run by NYTEC.

I designed and implemented a course to train staff in the use of CAD/CAM machinery and produced reference materials to support their development. As part of this project I also integrated the use of CAM techniques into the workflow of the joiners' shop and investigated new approaches to manufacture.

The main software packages I used were:

Photoshop, Illustrator, Coreldraw, Blender3d, Gerber Omega Composer and Rhino 3d. I have plenty of experience of MS Windows products and administering a small network. I can build, troubleshoot, repair and maintain PCs as required.

While at Harrisons I also introduced 3d visualisations of projects; still, animated and interactive walk-rounds using Blender (a freeware 3d suite).

I am aware of current health and safety issues at work, and have undertaken health and safety training in the past year.

1992-1994

Gallery Technician

Spacex Gallery, Exe Street , Exeter EX1 1DF

Duties included: Providing full technical support for a busy public art gallery, building displays, hanging paintings, lighting, AV support and giving technical support to visiting artists on installing site-specific works.

I worked on a range of art education projects involving introducing young people to the Arts, liasing with schools prior to school visits, providing supporting material for schools and helping run a Saturday morning art club.

I was also responsible for preparing mailouts, transcribing audio tapes of seminars and sales of catalogues and postcards relating to the exhibits.

1987 -1992

Sign Draughtsman/Prototype maker

Rydon Signs, Pinhoe Industrial Estate, Exeter EX4 8JR

Duties included: Producing working drawings for manufacture, CAM programming and digitizing artwork. Producing prototype signage and samples.

I had sole responsibility for the day to day operation of the vinyl sign shop with two staff.

1985-1987

Freelance Graphic Designer

Working for a variety of local companies designing promotional materials of all kinds including point of sale displays, catalogues, posters, cartoons and display advertisements. I also assisted with the publication of the local “What's on?" magazine Event south west.

1984-1985

Graphic Design Assistant Krikor Baytarian Associates,6 Lower Regents St. London W1 Temporary contract assisting in the production of a 6 volume prospectus by the architects of the University of Saudi Arabia .

EDUCATION

1981-1984 Goldsmiths College London

(BA Fine Art specialising in Multimedia installations, Video and Photographic works)

1980-1981 London College of Printing

(Foundation Course Graphic Design)

1979-1980 City and East London College

A level Art (Graphic Design) (B) A level History of Art (B) 0 level Photography (C)