It's not your blue blood or your college degree,
it's what you do with your life that counts.
EXPERIENCE
Freelance Designer/Mac Op/Tutor
Involved with many projects, for both established and
start-up clients. Designing, building and managing websites.
Design and print production including company identities,
promotional material, flyers, labels, brochures, business cards,
and stationery.
Senior Tutor – Digital Creativity Department [Full-Time]
Planning and Delivery of lessons, developing and carrying out assessments, reporting and recording student progress and achievement, liasing with staff and students.
• Design and Creativity (Colour theory, Composition, typography)
• Graphic Design (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign CS4)
• 3D Design (Blender, Character design)
• Web Design & Motion Graphics (Dreamweaver, Flash,
HTML, CSS, ActionScript)
• Digital Video (Premiere Pro, pre-production, production,
post-production)
Graphic Design Tutor [Full-time]
Planning and Delivery of lessons, developing and
carrying out assessments, reporting and recording
student progress and achievement, liasing with
staff and students.
• Photoshop CS3
• Illustrator CS3
• InDesign CS3
• Acrobat Professional 8.0
• Adobe Bridge CS3
• Design and Creativity
• Pre-press
Graphic designer/Mac Op [Temp]
Advertisements, retail, catalogues, packaging, photo retouching, brochures, annual reports, preflighting jobs.
Senior Mac Operator
Creation of advertisements, catalogues, packaging, brochures photo retouching and preflighting jobs.
Graphic designer/Mac Op [Temp]
Advertisements, retail, catalogues, packaging, photo retouching, brochures, annual reports, preflighting jobs.
Graphic designer/Mac Op (Temp)
Advertisements, catalogues, packaging, photo retouching,
brochures, annual reports, preflighting jobs, icon and
logo design.
Graphic Designer Tutor, School of Art & Design
• Certificate in Computer Graphic Design
• Diploma in Graphic Communication
Planning and Delivery of lessons, developing and
carrying out assessments, reporting and recording
student progress and achievement, liasing with
staff and students.
• Photoshop CS2
• Illustrator CS2
• QuarkXPress 6
• InDesign CS2
• Acrobat 7.0
• Pre-press
Computer Graphics Tutor
Planning and Delivery of lessons, developing and
carrying out assessments, reporting and recording
student progress and achievement, liasing with
staff and students.
• Photoshop 7
• Illustrator 10
• QuarkXPress 4
• InDesign 2
• Streamline 4
• Acrobat 5
• Pre-press
Graphic Designer (Art Department)
Designed client ads and company print promotional materials,
Interacted with clients and management throughout the design
process to ensure that project goals and objectives were achieved.
EDUCATION
AUT University, Auckland, New Zealand
• Research and Context (2009)
* This is still ongoing (part-time) and should be completed by 2013
New Media Design School, Auckland, New Zealand
• Maya 4
• AfterEffects 5
• Photoshop 6
Media Design School, Auckland, New Zealand
• Photoshop 5.5
• Freehand 8
• Director 7
• Premiere 5.1
• HTML, DHTML, CSS
• Dreamweaver 4
• Fireworks 4
• Flash 5
* Certificate for Excellence in Design 2000 Industry Panel Award for my New Media Design Portfolio
New Media Design School, Auckland, New Zealand
• Photoshop 5.0
• Illustrator 8.0
• QuarkXPress 4.2
• Pre-press
• Italian Language (written & spoken)
• Organisation & Management
• Computer Concepts (Microsoft Works)
• Accounting Practices
• Accounting Principles (External Financial Reports)
• WordPerfect 5.1
• Microsoft Excel
• Spreadsheet (Lotus 1-2-3)
• Database (First Choice)
• Desktop Publishing (Pagemaker)
• Political Studies: New Zealand & United States of America
• Philosophy: Ethics, Metaphysics & the Theory of Knowledge
• Psychology: General Introduction
• Biology
• Chemistry
• Physics
• Classical Studies
• Mathematics with Statistics

• Creative thinker
• Good presentation skills [written, verbal, and visual]
• Over 9 years of print production
• Over 7 years freelance designer
• Over 6years of web design
• Over 5 years of production,
planning & delivering lessons
• Welcome new challenges, knowledge & techniques
• Efficient time management skills and problem solving
• Mac OSX
• Windows 2000 & Vista
• Photoshop CS4
• Illustrator CS4
• InDesign CS4
• Acrobat Professional 8.0
• Acrobat Distiller 8.0
• Quark Express 4.2 & 6
• Dreamweaver CS4
• Premiere Pro CS4
• Adobe Bridge CS3
• Microsoft Excel
• Microsoft Word
• Flash CS4
(ActionScript)
• HTML, DHTML, CSS
• Blender
• lushdesigns.co.nz
• amberhaldane.com
• themakeupschool.co.nz
• viviennehaldane.com
• hastingshall.co.nz
• waihekevilla.co.nz
• taupolakeedgeestate.co.nz
• Digital Photography 2008
[camera and composition]
• Multicultural Classroom
Issues 2004
• Classroom Management 2004
• Team Building and
Communication Skills 2004
• Learning & Teaching 2003
• Mentor’s Toolbox 2003
• Peer Mentoring 2004
• Semi-Permanent 2009
• Semi-Permanent 2008
• InDesign Conference 2008
• Semi-Permanent 2004
Will be supplied upon request.