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Experience

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September 2023 – November 2023

I was employed on a freelance basis for Terry White Chemmart primarily to assist with the deadlines for the Christmas catalogues where deep-etching/cutouts were required for the majority of images. Other tasks were creating posters and flyers for display in various stores and some of these were converted to interactive pdfs where they could be updated by the store themselves.

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February 2023 – June 2023

While working for the Supercheap Auto Support Office, I assisted with setting up the regular retail catalogues for Australia and New Zealand along with EDMs, socials, data-merge, POS, cutouts along with many other tasks, all using a PC and the usual Adobe creative programmes. Work was assigned to the team via Asana and communication between team members or internal clients was via Asana or Microsoft Teams.

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February 2022 – May 2022

While temporarily in the UK, the Production Director of Brunswick Group (previously MerchantCantos) contacted me to work on several annual reports, many with tight deadlines and occasionally working into the early hours of the morning. I thoroughly enjoyed working with my ex-colleagues once again albeit remotely rather than in the office.

 

May 2021 – November 2021

Whilst with the Queensland Curriculum and Assessment Authority (QCAA) in the Publishing Unit I worked on assessment material following brand guidelines to ensure quality and consistency and all of a time-sensitive nature. Duties included updating Adobe Indesign templates, ensuring style sheets were transferrable across multi-sized documents; creating files using the templates mentioned and converting these into digital pdfs with active form-fields and adding the read-aloud function with adaptations made for pronunciation anomalies along with retouching/editing images and diagrams in Adobe Photoshop or Adobe Illustrator. Other skills involved redacting elements of pdfs to ensure sensitive information was hidden from view and keeping Microsoft Word templates up-to-date for stakeholders’ use.

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October 2020 – January 2021

Employed as a ‘Christmas Casual’ van driver with Australia Post, I used a hand-held scanner where all parcels had to be scanned, optimised for delivery order and used to photograph parcels to assist with any missing packages disputes.

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June 2006 – present

I have worked for many companies on a freelance basis, mostly in the production of annual financial reports where I have had repeat bookings over several years. Once the reporting season ended, I worked for a variety of organisations on projects ranging from high-spec property brochures, fact sheets, pop-up banners, sales aids, pitch documents and Powerpoint presentations.

 

Freelance bookings in Australia have been:

  • Terry White Chemmart

  • Supercheap Auto Support Office

  • Queensland Curriculum and Assessment Authority (QCAA)

  • Australia Post

  • ProdigyPlus

  • 630 Agency

  • Dais

  • Redfern Brand Consultants

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Other freelance bookings while in the UK are listed below:

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Corporate Communication Agencies

  • Addison Corporate Marketing Ltd

  • ​Best and Company Ltd

  • Black Sun

  • Brunswick Group

  • Carnegie Orr Ltd

  • Conran Design Group

  • Emperor Design Ltd

  • 85-FOUR

  • Instinctif

  • ​MerchantCantos

  • Orb Solutions

  • Pauffley Ltd

  • Salter Baxter (part of Publicis Group)

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Branding Agencies

  • Brand Communications

  • ​Conran (within Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer)

  • ​RR Donnelly

  • DesignWerk

  • Dusted

  • ​Living Group

  • ​Redfern Brand Consultants

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Education

  • National Union of Students

  • Universities UK

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Investment Banks

  • BlackRock Investment Management (UK) Ltd

  • Gartmore Investment Bank Plc

  • Henderson Global Investors Ltd

  • Loveurope (within J P Morgan)

  • Octopus Investments

  • ​Schroders Asset Management

  • Threadneedle Investment Services Ltd

  • Willis Group

 

Legal Agencies

  • Bircham Dyson Bell LLP

 

Recruitment Advertising Agencies

  • Barkers Recruitment Advertising​​

 

Other

  • AML

  • Brake Brothers Ltd

  • Sectorlight

  • Serac Communications Ltd

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Prior to June 2006

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During this earlier part of my career, I worked as a permanent employee for various companies – my job title varied between organisations, however, there were always challenges to overcome which increased my knowledge base:

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  • Capita Design & Print (Senior Artworker)

  • Euro RSCG Riley (Artworker)

  • ARL Communications Ltd (Artworker)

  • Bibliotech (Repro Bureau Manager)

  • Indart Ltd (Artworker)

  • The Partnership (Artworker)

  • Bourne Press Ltd (Artworker)

  • Lyndhurst Printing Company Ltd (Artworker)

  • Indart Ltd (Typesetter)

  • Barclays Bank PLC (Typesetter)

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