Name: Richard Holbrook                              D.O.B. 08/06/1987

Address: 24 Drummond Road,                                      Tel: 07590325093

Website: www.CS5design.com                                      Email: Richardholbrook@gmail.com

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A recent Digital Media Design graduate with a broad skill set, substantial work experience, looking to bring a range of skills and commercial knowledge, looking for it to be fully utilized in a new career which demonstrates Design, Marketing and Optimization, in a media related organisation in the private, public or voluntary sector.

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• Modules include: Design for the internet, Globalisation, Digital Video Production, Principles of game production, Brands and marketing, 3D Animation.

• Final Year project “Metropolis – A 3D film trailer for the classic title metropolis, using Autodesk Maya and Combustion”.

• English, ICT, Media A-levels
• 9 A-C grades including English, Maths and Science.

EMPLOYMENT

• Responsible for organising catering for the public
• Worked as part of a team and often had to delegate roles to insure that we worked as efficiently and safely as possible.
• Maintaining client relationship and meeting deadlines

• Worked as part of a team to create an Advertisement for Adidas to advertise a new line of football shirts.
• Co-ordination with the team members, as assigned, towards the successful accomplishment of the project

• All type of Graphic and Web Related Work as Graphic Creation of the proposals, Website Design and Maintenance, Logo, Brochure Creation, stationary items, Print Material & Flash Animation with Action scripting
• Data input, Creating invoices, Amending borrowing, checking payments, customer services, attending incoming calls and dealing with customers enquiries and bookings
• Dealing with customers in relation to project requirements
• Producing proposal, web development using web standards, flash animation, analysis website traffic, online marketing and search engine optimisation, mobile websites
• Installing software or scripts on client server using FTP

September 2009 – Present     Retail Assistant, off license

• Liaising with clients in all areas of sales – client interaction is vital and sales assistants working with higher priced goods will need to provide a highly personalised approach.
• Processing payments of various kinds
• Dealing with customer complaints
• Utilising specialist product knowledge
• Monitoring and updating sales display areas

January 2011 – Present    Irby Computers – Part time Supervisor

• Fixing virus’s, hardware issues, software issue
• Opening and closing of store
• Supervised members of staff, and given out instructions to carry out the day’s tasks
• Installation of software, setting up content management systems
• Training staff on how to use content management systems.
• Engaging with members of the public, liaising with clients, adhering to there every need, and demand, and making them feel like a valued customer, and talking to their level of computer experience
• Communicating with customer inquiries either via email or by telephone, to address computer issues
• I.T. technician support for local businesses
• Meeting deadlines

KEY PERSONAL SKILLS

About Me

I am an ambitious, creative, reliable and conceptual designer. Marketing & Design are my passions as well as a career choice. I have a keen eye for layout, colour, and typography and am extremely competent in Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premier, Adobe Flash, Adobe Flash Catalyst, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Autodesk Maya and Combustion. In addition to my abilities on these programs I am very keen to learn and develop my skills. I am a sociable, positive and confident person who works well with others and thrives on pressure and responsibility. I have experienced many aspects of design as well as producing personal creative work of my own.

Capabilities

• Adaptable to new technology and software changes
• Assembled storyboards, pitches and presentations to gain new cliental
• Contributed ideas and design artwork to the overall brief
• Assisted a marketing team with brainstorming, marketing and advertising strategies
• Presented finalized designs, ideas and concepts to clients
• Office skills – PowerPoint, Word, Excel
• SEO optimization
• WordPress Blog
• Facebook, Twitter, Flickr company groups/websites.

INTERESTS

• Keeping up to date on Software advances
• Running a blog
• Keeping up to date on technological advances
• I enjoy listening to music
• Enjoy healthy outdoor pursuits, including cycling and walking
• Reading

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References: Available upon Request

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