career in brief

2010-present Graphic Designer - Sheer Design
Working on the bi-annual bridal magazine Your Hunter Valley Wedding Planner. Creating corporate ID, brochures, POS, email marketing campaigns and websites.

2007-2010 Graphic Designer - Educational Experience
Designed and developed catalogues, sales material and advertising material for Educational Experience and the Retail Shop.
Designed new products. Took photos of products and product demonstrations in a studio environment and outdoors.

2008-2010 Freelance Graphic Designer - After Hours
Worked with clients including the Australian Tai Chi Institute, Brighten Your Life Freelance Photography, Condiment Queens, Something Natural - Massage Therapy, Alesha Fairleigh-Crocker - Beauty Consultant and glEmma Hair.

2005-2007 Graphic Artist - NBN Television
Created the initial look for the NBN News Plus website. Created the graphics that site behind the 6pm bulletin news reader, created holiday themed NBN logos and animated text promotions.

academic achievements

2009-2010 Certificate IV Web Design (19007) - Hunter TAFE
Please view my TAFE work online at akaiko.cessnock-ict.net.

2003-2006 Bachelor of Design (Visual Communication) Degree

technical ability

Platform I am capable in the use of both mac and PC.
Coding HTML, XHTML, CSS, PHP and Javascript.
Applications Adobe CS4 Indesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Acrobat, Distiller, Fireworks, Flash and Dreamweaver.

awards

"Graduated from University with a distinction average and was placed on Faculty of Science and Information Technology Merit List and the Faculty Commendation List."