Date of birth: 20/4/72 Single, with clean driving licence

Information architect with a broad background in leading team-based design and computer assisted design, with good project management skills

April 98 – date: Creative Director

June 97 – April 98: Design Manager

Joined prototyping team in June 1997. Worked through defining editorial requirements and data structures with both programming and editorial team leaders. Lead development of navigational structure and user interface.

Assumed role of "design manager", evolving both structural and visual design of site for launch in early November 97. Made Creative Director in April 1998, with responsibility of visual and user interface direction of all BBC News brand sites, including the BBC’s 1998 World Cup site (http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldcup)

Producer

Joined this innovative cross-media design consultancy to provide project management skills and experience of producing large-scale Internet based projects. As producer, created concepts in response to briefs, pitched these in presentations, and then followed through on wins, to project management and design direction on jobs for clients such as BT, HMV and the BBC.

Freelance design consultant

Redesign process consultancy, structural and visual design work

Springboard Internet Services,
on BT/Newscorp Joint Venture Project: LineOne

Design Lead and Production Manager

In July 1996, Delphi Creative was bought out by a joint venture company formed by News International and British Telecom, and reorganised to become the creative power behind the launch of a web based online service leveraging the provision of content from NI and communications/internet provision from BT.

Promoted to Production manager, co-ordinating the development of the project over four design teams and a programming team (a total of 25 people), reporting to management and presenting to the board members of the JV from both parent companies.

Maintained a hands-on role in the design and prototyping of the overall look and feel of the new service, working in conjunction with the internal teams and as chief liaison with external corporate identity/design agency.

Design team leader

Design and production management for commercial website development

Development and launch Designer

Joined original design and prototyping team for the creation of Internet Editions in July 1995.

Following two months of rapid prototyping for presentation to members of Times & Sunday Times editorial staff, moved to News International's Wapping HQ, for the design and implementation of the publishing system.

Duties included design and production of graphics, interface design, template design, liaison with programming staff over technical and code design, and presentation of prototypes to internal and third parties.

Web producer

Worked as designer specialising in website structure, navigation and graphical interface on major Internet based projects: Glenfiddich, news Multimedia, BskyB but the majority of my time on the Times and Sunday Times projects.

As a design team leader, my duties included client liaison, project management, team management and motivation. My background meant that within the organisation I was given special responsibilities in researching methods of project management and quality assurance.

Architectural assistant

B.Arch in Architecture, B.Sc. (Hons) 2.1 in Architectural Studies

Welsh School of Architecture

Porthcawl Comprehensive School

Computing A, Physics B and Art C Grade at A-Level

8 GCSEs (A Grade: Art, Computing, English Lit., English Lang., Design & Technology; B Grade: Geography, Physics, French)

‘O’ Level Mathematics: A Grade.

Highly skilled in PhotoShop, Illustrator, Freehand.

Skilled in Quark Xpress, AutoCAD, 3Dstudio, macromedia director, macromedia director, dreamweaver, flash, generator.

Music and Dj’ing. Travel. Architecture. Design and design theory. Physics.