Creative Design Lead (Product UX, Brand, Web)
Gladstone MRM Ltd
Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry
March 2010 – Present (1 year 8 months)
Managing the User Experience design of the Gladstone product suite and leading the design of all marketing collateral of Gladstone MRM's current and new product portfolio. Visit www.gladstonemrm.com to learn more about the leisure product suite that William manages. Or visit http://www.gladstone-education.com/ to learn more about the education product suite that William manages the design for.
Senior Software User Interface Designer and Brand Manager
Ceridian
Privately Held; 5001-10,000 employees; Human Resources industry
April 2007 – February 2010 (2 years 11 months)
In charge of software user interface design, usability, information architecture and brand development within the senior software development group. Member of the new steering group within Ceridian developing next generation technologies for their HR and related market software offerings. To learn more about this product suite visit http://www.ceridian.co.uk/ and learn about HRevolution.
Lead UI/UX & Graphic Designer
FujiFilm Electronic Imaging Ltd (UK)
July 2005 – January 2007 (1 year 7 months)
Lead UI & Help Designer within the Research and Development department in the development of their new cross media workflow RIP software.
William led on the interactive design, GUI, help system design and branding within a 30 man development team of their ground breaking software XMF Workflow that is based around the JDF workflow process. The project had a budget of around 1 million and has been very well received within the print industry at IPEX wining best software award in 2009. This product forms the base of their product offering to the print industry. William also led the design of the integrated help system for XML Workflow using Madcap Flare and Flash creating tutorials and resources that were translated into 7 languages and distributed to web and print formats.
Learn more about the FFEI product suite at: http://www.ffei.co.uk/
Learn more about XMF Workflow
Owner
WR Software & Design Ltd
October 2003 – July 2005 (1 year 10 months)
Clients/Projects examples:
Dome Systems - Branding & materials for smart technology co.
BP - Corporate comms for Retail & DCT involving performance measurement & data collation. Design of Focus Group support materials and MORI (design of electronic & paper based ) surveys.
Industrial Lubricants & Services - Corporate comms work designing branded processes and materials to facilitate communication & engagement in new business.
Begbroke Science Park - A CMS website.
Building Doctors - A sales and marketing website selling preconfigured architectural service packages.
Connect Sheffield - Signage for Sheffield
SPU Lubricants - Corporate comms work for Castrol, internal measurement surveys, working with their Director of Comm's at SPU Lubricants (partnership with MORI) & 3 other business areas.
Miles Macadam - Corporate website for Miles Macadam
Makower - Website (www.makower.co.uk)
Wemyss Beverage and Properties - Website (www.wemyss.biz)
Senior Designer/Illustrator
Royal Military College Shrivenham (Cranfield University)
December 2002 – September 2003 (10 months)
The Royal Military College based at Shrivenham is the site of the Defence Academy. William worked in the design centre there developing educational materials for the British Army. I worked on a ground breaking project called Military Knowledge 1.
This is a (1600 pages, in 8 modules) distance learning course in printed and interactive electronic format for the Ministry of Defence. The first of seven courses at degree and masters level to be used at UK Military Academies. The course and its design collateral were designed so it could be used later in electronic format delivered online through a content management system.
Activities:
- Style development (guidelines, illustration in conjunction with layout)
- Illustration design project management and client liaison
- Image processing to support multimedia development
- Illustration (300+ technical and conceptual images)
Art Director
Research Machines PLC
September 1999 – July 2002 (2 years 11 months)
RMLearning Division - Service Design & Development (www.rm.com)
Designed interactive learning material and online services:
- RM Maths
- Learning Alive (portal)
- Easiteach (wholeclass teaching software)
- MathsALive Framework edition (cms teaching service)
- ICT Alive interactive content development introducing kids how ICT works in areas of learning or research and its many applications.
- Living library content for clip art library, people and quotes, revision guides(created 2d and multimedia) and designed the user interface and navigation structures.
- US Living Library content and service design (UI and look & feel)
Other activities:
- Formed and managed a design team to focus & support product brand design & content development within the RM Learning division of RM.
- Managed the brand & structural design needs of over 20 products and services in electronic and printed formats.
New Media Designer
Harmonics
January 1999 – September 1999 (9 months)
New media & exhibition design company.
Senior Designer/ Account Director
- Project managed and executed design on a range of new media projects for clients such as Equant, The Wetland & Wildfowl Trust, Plantronics, The Room, The Wedding Shop.
- Introduced business leads & developed creative pitches for new business which brought in an estimated 150k in to the business.
- Operated in a project management client facing capacity on accounts and interfaced with the in house design team and external freelancers.
- Mentored graduates & integrated them in to project teams while completing periods of work experience.
Graphic Designer
SSVC - Visua Communications
March 1997 – June 1998 (1 year 4 months)
Multimedia company supporting other companies on the SSVC site. I worked on projects for:
MOD - Designed the interfaces for this training CD for the Ministry of Defence. The subject was tactical manoeuvre training for mechanised battle group personnel. The client wanted to express humour during the training so I also designed interactive cartoons that reacted to student decisions.
Hyatt Regency Birmingham - Designed a sales program using Macromedia Authorware with Surround Video that utilised 360-degree photographic views of the entire hotel. Worked with the client & the photographer when on the shoot then processed all the imagery & designed the program interface & interactive design.
NATO - Designed this information web site that was aimed at service personnel’s families. They could get latest news on their family member’s location and wellbeing.
Anglia - Corporate presentation
Cellnet - Training program
Rover - Training program
Multimedia Designer
Communique Group
Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry
August 1996 – March 1997 (8 months)
William worked on a (£100,000 budget) multimedia project for Manpower Recruitment developing one of the first interactive training programs using Macromedia Director. He worked on the design of all slides and the interactive workflow. He also worked on a range of other marketing projects across the Communique client list.
Illustrator/Visualiser
The Artery
August 1993 – August 1996 (3 years 1 month)
A design house supplying creative services to a broad range of clients within advertising, publishing, design agencies etc. I was one of a team of artists supplying artwork and visualisation services in a range of styles to the large design companies within London. William also at this time was illustrating childrens books for clients such as Oxford University Press through his London agent. He also was completing a postgraduate design course at St Martins School of Art in multimedia studies.
Freelance Illustrator
Freelance Illustrator and Multimedia Designer (Sole Proprietorship)
Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Graphic Design industry
1980 – 1990 (10 years)
William worked for a huge range of design clients up and down the UK supplying illustration services for marketing collateral, packaging, publishing etc.
The University of Manchester
Student: Communication Design Degree (2:1)
1985 – 1988
Other Activities and Societies: Photography, Illustration, graphic Design, Real Tennis