Photography

(Morans Wood Components) 2015 to Present – At Moran’s I have numerous roles here but the primary is a product designer. Designing products from conception in rough sketches to scaled 3D visuals for sales and production use. I am tasked with making appealing CGI products which look as realistic as possible for use as sales aids. However I also create models with our construction methods in mind, as at the company I also use Coreldraw to produce scaled “Production Specification” sheets. These Production sheets are sent to the factory floor to progress all our orders to final finished products.

As a company constantly working on bespoke projects, I am also tasked with the companies product photography and implementation into our website and online promotions. I maintain and run the companies Google Adwords and Pinterest Campaigns also ensuring driven traffic. After initially designing and building the companies WordPress website in 2016, I maintain and update it in line with current SEO practices. I ensure that traffic is driven and converted through our online channels and increase organic search results for the company website. By keeping appraised of necessary standards in online content creation and creating engaging online content, I ensure that the numbers of enquiries in our primary sectors are constantly increasing and that business is forthcoming.

In early 2017 the company purchased a Yotta Large Format UV printer which has a print head that can be lifted up to 340mm above substrate (the first of its kind in the United Kingdom). I was given primary responsibility for the running and maintenance of this new printer which can print directly onto a multitude of substrates including various types of wood, glass, tile and material. I was tasked with expanding our various product sectors with new and imaginative product designs using this large format printer.

(Jones Window Systems) 2009 to 2015 – Working at Jones Window Systems I was tasked with website development and enquiry generation online. Using the WordPress CMS I created numerous websites all interlinked and SEO optimised. This included all photography visiting installations and creating informative and engaging Videos. I was tasked with all of the print generation for the company including leaflets and brochures including internal sales and order documents for production and processing and dealt with all aspects design and procurement. Within the subsidiary companies “Online Trade” supply website I also generated promotional imagery and dealt with telephone sales and order fulfilment.

(Netport Cafe & Blue Star Design) 2000 to 2004 – Having purchased and rented a commercial property in St Helen’s for a number of years I decided to use this commercial property to open an “Internet Cafe”. The cafe ran and held multiplayer PC and console gaming for children in the local area and with a large internet connection this allowed the cafe to join a circuit of 30 or so other gaming centres within the IGUK leagues. These UK based leagues were used to generate UK finalists for the International LAN gaming competitions and competitors were sent to international venues to compete.

The cafe also retailed computer games and gaming consoles and I employed my graphic design skills with the IGUK team for promotional work as they were becoming heavily sponsored by game producing software companies like Ubisoft and EA. These types of companies sent promotional materials and free software to the centres as well as allowing us a small budget to promote our centres within Games Magazines.

(St Helens Glass) 1990 to 1993 – I worked for my families “Home Improvement” company as a Sales Manager’s Assistant for the Merseyside Area. I was tasked with ensuring that employed sales staff were attending our promotional venues throughout the region and promoting the company as required. I was also given the role of overseeing the production of all our promotional material and sales equipment including Van Liveries, production of sales equipment, sales promotion stands and all print literature. Here I became interested in photography and dealt with numerous photographers who would generate our sales photography.

(Budget Mortgage Services) 1989 to 1990 – A subsidiary company within my families home improvement company this newly formed business was tasked within finding financing options for people with numerous loans and financial constraints by consolidating any short and long term loans in to long term loans at more competitive rates. I was tasked in overseeing credit checks and performing order processing for this company.

(St Helens Glass) 1987 to 1989 – After leaving High school I went to work for my families home improvement company. “St Helens Glass” employed over 350 people within the Northwest of England and had offices throughout the Northwest. I started work in the summer of 1986 and was given roles in lots of departments within the company to give me a broad an understanding of the family business . At this time I was tasked with a Computer Administration role within production order processing as an automated system had just recently been implemented.