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Name: Tom Gregory
Address: 8 Acreman Street, Cerne Abbas, Dorchester, Dorset. DT2 7JX
Date of Birth: 17th October 1975
Nationality: British
Marital Status: Single
Telephone: 01300 341 081
Mobile: 07852 179 888
E-mail: tom@ovo.co.uk
1989 – 1992 Thomas Hardy’s
School, Dorchester, Dorset. GCSE’s: Maths,
English, Art, Business Studies, Science, Technology and
Humanities.
1992 – 1993 Weymouth College, Weymouth,
Dorset. BTEC 1st Diploma in Graphic Design, A Level Art, AS Level Photography.
1993 – 1994 Salisbury College, Salisbury,
Wiltshire. Art and Design Foundation.
1994 – 1997 London
College of Printing, Elephant & Castle, London. BA (HONS) Graphic and Media Design.
Saunders-Milner Ltd, Hertford - Junior Graphic Designer
After completing my degree, I started working for Saunders-Milner,
a design company set up by one of the former directors of
Ping Communications in Piccadilly, London whom I had 4 months
work experience with while at college. Initially, I worked
as a print designer creating brochures, adverts and corporate
ids. With the companies encouragement I started to teach
myself how to use Director, Flash and HTML. I was therefore
responsible for enabling the company to enter the interactive
market. Clients: Electronic Arts, Jungle.com, The Marketing
Store Worldwide, Lynton Cooper, Drury Shipping, Monkey Tennis
(Early version of the band Gurillas), Innovation-TK, Telesoft-Design,
Creative Action Design, MK-Design.
Freelance Interactive designer.
Bark Design, Mount Pleasant, London: Designed
and constructed a CD-ROM for CMAT, a customer relations
Tim Harrison - Former Creative Director
at Oven Digital, USA: Working with Tim I created a website
for the newly formed OxbridgeLife.com. I also worked on
the visual and navigation design of Ford Cars’ new
website. Developed ideas for Australian Thunk Recording’s
website and other related promotions and contributed to
various pitches.
WCRS,
Golden Square, London - Interactive Designer
Working in the Interactive Department creating online adverts.
Involved with work for pitches and photo-shoots. Working
closely with creatives to obtain a high quality of work.
Clients: BMW, MINI, Vodafone, LunnPoly, Prudential and Camelot.
itraffic, Tequilla House, Cambridge Circus, London - Senior
Designer.
Managing a team of 4 designers creating online
adverts including, Banners, Pop-ups, Superstitials, Rich
Media, HTML emails, web pages, animations and games. Clients:
British Airways, NSPCC, Freeserve/Wannado, Hilton Hotels
Agency.com,
85 The Strand, London - Senior Designer
In October Agency.com merged with its sister company itaffic.
I was then in charge of supervising a team of 8 designers,
art directing, proofing work and checking for continuity
before it was sent to clients. Handling all Rich Media production.
Working closely with the Production Manager to organise
time schedules and the smooth running of projects between
the media team, creatives and the design team. Overseeing
the work produced by freelancers, handling photography and
image re-touching. Working with creatives at a concept level
to ensure the work presented to clients was feasible. Aditional
clients: British Telecom, Dulux, T-Mobile, COI.
I took a year off work to travel through China, South East Asia and South America.
Working as a senior creative at Play, M&C Saatchi’s Interactive department. I was responsible for managing a team of 4 designers and various freelancers designing and producing online adverts for clients such as ITV, Thames Water, Ribena and Quantas Airlines. Working also for Iris, Base One and Grand Union (Clients included Abbey, Npower, John Frieda, British Gas, Sony, Hugo, Toyota and National Express) along with personal clients producing online adverts, websites and print based work.
I set up ovo Limited and continued doing freelance work (online adverts, web design and print design) for design agencies and local businesses from my home office. Working mainly for Soup Digital (Norwich), as part of their team creating online adverts for SkyTV, Kingsmill and Aviva. Other clients include: FiveByFive a design agency in Southampton, Wan Ling Tea House, Angel Cake Company, Spin8, Festival of Bryan, The Dorset Charcoal Company and Mind Orchard.
• Senior Web Creative with an advertising
agency background gained at some of Londons best agencies.
Enthusiastic self-starter highly motivated with the desire
to push the boundaries of advertising and web design.
• Creative team player with a passion for learning,
resilient and flexible.
• Good understanding of business issues, effective
decision maker with good communication & presentation
skills, task and time management, influential interpersonal
skills, operates with minimum supervision.
• Confident and able to encourage and motivate others.
Strong leadership skills. Fast learner with a keen interest
in new technology. Works extremely well under pressure.
• Extensive knowledge of digital artwork and interactive
media and the practicalities of navigation design and usage.
Able to produce creative design solutions for project briefs, colour visuals and interactive material to a highly
finished standard.
• Experienced creator of interactive projects including
HTML/CSS websites and emails, CD-Roms, online adverts in all
formats, including Rich Media.
• Abile to create, retouch and optimise digital images,
via photography and illustration.
• Experienced Mac user, with a full understanding
of Mac OSX, capable of installing software and hardware.
• Proficient in the following applications: Flash, Photoshop,
Fireworks, ImageReady, Freehand, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Indesign and more.
VJing (Live mixing of video to music). Fine art and crafts, especially ceramics, collecting and listening to music, photography and typography, travel, reading and gradening.
Available on request.