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  Name: Michael Randerson
  Date of birth: 14th May 1976
  Nationality: English (I hold an Australian residency visa with full work permissions)
  Address: Australia
  Tel no: +61 (0) 431 045 864
  Email: michael@designerdiary.com
  Website: www.purpleolive.com
     
  Employment History
     
  Currently: Freelancing for box (uk) and various Australian clients
     
  Date: November 2002 - December 2003
  Employer: Box www.boxnewmedia.co.uk
  Address: 6 Hoxton Square, London, N1 6NU
     
  Employed as an Art Director. Working below the Creative Director I managed a team of 4 creative members as well as overseeing 5 technical staff. I handled projects from pitch to completion, which included conceptual design, design development, flash design and programming, usability and accessability studies, HTML site building and art direction (including photography shoots). I was also responsible for sourcing, commissioning and managing freelancers and illustrators. I also undertook account management, liaising with clients on a day-to-day basis. I would also regularly present pitches to clients. As well as interactive work, I regularly produced print material (ready for press) and worked on a series of re-brandings (Box, Select Model Management and Joy Goodman).
     
  Box Accounts: Select Model Management, Joy Goodman, Youth Music, Eurosport, Ellison Lee, First Leisure, Cable & Wireless, The Prince’s Trust, Copthorn Homes, Miller Insurance, Wind Pro, Willis Insurance, Rough Trade, Leukaemia Research Foundation
     
  Date: March 2002 - November 2002
  Employer: Impact www.impact-im.co.uk
  Address: The Works, Farleigh Bridge, Maidstone, Kent
     
  Employed as a Senior Designer. My role incorporated all stages of the creative process from initial ideas and concepts to project delivery, including flash programming and html page building. The position was also client facing and I managed a small team of designers making sure each project was delivered on time and on budget.
     
  Accounts: Kookaburra, Honda, Dixons, Colon Cancer Concern, Michael Elliott, Jones Lang La Salle, Marley, Equator, Hitec, e-drive, Outback.
     
  Date: April 2001 - March 2002
  Employer: MTV www.mtv.co.uk
  Address: United Kingdom House, 180 Oxford Street, London W1D 1DS
     
  Employed initially as a web designer for the redesign of www.mtv.co.uk, my role then diversified, incorporating Flash design and programming, HTML page building, consultation and project management.
     
  Accounts: MTV, Nike, Impulse, Vodafone, Mastercard.
     
  Date: March 2000 - April 2001
  Employer: Wheel: (formerly pres.co) www.wheel.co.uk
  Address: 85 Clerkenwell Road, London EC1R 5AR
     
  Employed as a Web Designer, to work alongside a creative director, art director and copywriter. The role included all aspects of web design, from initial idea-led brainstorms to site completion, userbility studies, client liason, flash programming and consultation.
     
  Accounts: Abbey National, Clifford Chance, Dr. Martens, Guardian Edinburgh International Television Festival, Marconi, Argos, The Shoe Studio, PTV, My Nutrtion, National Savings, Henderson Global Investors, ipc media.
     
  Date: February 1999 - March 2000
  Employer: Raven www.raven.eu.com
  Address: 11/15 The Turnmill, 63 Clerkenwell Road, London EC1M 5NP
     
  Employed as a Designer for print, multimedia, and the web. As well as client liaison, my roles included design and artworking for print (corporate identity and literature), design and authoring for screen (interactive multimedia, digital presentations, websites and Flash movies) and routine Macintosh maintenance. I was also responsible for 35mm slide production through POM and Dicenet systems and occasionally undertook DTP assistance at WestMerchant Bank in Gracechurch Street, London
     
  Accounts: Fitzpatrick, FortŽ, KPMG, Media Vest, Trinity Mirror Group, PowderJect, Pretty Polly, PPS, Sarasin, Seagrams, Hello Magazine, Gruner and Jahr, Trillium.
     
  Freelance work
     
  I also undertake freelance projects when there is no conflict of interest. Recent projects include work for:
     
  Client: Hurricane Restaurants
Signature Marketing
The Holiday Inn
The Lawyer (Centaur Communications)
Sowerby Advertising & Communications
ker-pow.com
     
  Additional work experience
     
  Date: August 1997
  Agency: One O'Clock Gun Design Consultants
  Address: Edinburgh, Scotland
     
  Date: Summer 1995
  Agency: Allied Dunbar Design Department
  Address: Swindon, Wiltshire
     
  URL's Please refer to www.purpleolive.com
     
  Educational qualifications
     
  Date: 1994 to July 1998
  Institution: Falmouth College of Arts
  Address: Woodlane, Falmouth, Cornwall
  Qualification: BA(Hons) Degree: "Graphic Information Design"
  Grade: 2nd Class, 2nd division
     
  Date: September 1986 to July 1994
  Institution: Dauntsey's School
  Address: West Lavington, devizes, Wiltshire
     
  Qualification: A-Level / AS-Level (Summer 1994)
     
  Grade/Subject: A Maths   C Chemistry   D Art & Design   D Physics (AS)
     
  Qualification: GCSE (Summer 1992)
     
  Grade/Subject: A Art & Design, Maths, Additional Maths Chemistry, French, Physics   C Geography   B Economics, English Literature and Language
     
  Skills  
     
  Considerable experience with the following computer systems and applications:
     
  Apple Macintosh (Mac OS 7.1 to X)    PC (Windows 3.11, '95, '98, NT, xp)
     
  Flash, Photoshop, Imageready, FreeHand, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, QuarkXPress, Fireworks, Director, Fetch, Powerpoint, Word
     
  Knowlege of in Flash 5 Actionscripting, and can understand and write basic HTML and Javascript (Popup windows, detecting screen size, etc.).
     
  Broad knowledge of Macintosh system software, and ability to troubleshoot and resolve technical errors.
     
  Hold a clean full UK driving License
     
  Qualified Cocktail Bartender (3rd in National Bartender of the year 1997)
     
  Hobbies and interests
     
 

I have a keen interest in the art, design, typography and architecture from the modernist period, with a specific interest in the Pop Art movement (Warhol and Litchenstien). Other interests include, reading, travelling, TV and film, and learning the guitar.

     
  References On request.
     
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