An outgoing and creative multimedia designer, I have been working across a wide variety of media for almost 10 years both as a freelancer and also with a number of high profile companies. I have recently finished touring with my former band and am looking to drum up some new business through PeoplePerHour.

Please feel free to get in contact regarding any job posted. I'm always happy and willing to give my thoughts on any project and I can guarantee any jobs undertaken will be completed with professionalism and thoroughness, with that little extra spark to make them stand out.

Area Covered: Graphic Design, Website Design/Coding, Music Composition/Production, Video Editing


Work Experience
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Summary: I have almost 10 years experience across a wide variety of creative design, mostly in print and website design/coding, but also in video production, animation and music production and composition.

As well as the positions listed below I have been consistently working as a freelance designer with companies here in Ireland, mostly in the theatre and entertainment industries.

As I have recently finished touring with my former band, Dead Cat Bounce, I am looking forward to picking up freelance work through the peopleperhour.com site. Although I am starting from scratch on the site I can promise all clients will receive a professional and creative service and I'm very excited to work with new people and to solve any problems thrown my way.
Job Title: Musician/Designer
Company: Dead Cat Bounce
Description: For the past number of years I have been touring and playing keyboards with the band Dead Cat Bounce, performing at festivals all over the world as well as designing all publicity material for the group. As of October 2011 I am no longer performing with the group.
From:01/Aug/2008 To:07/Oct/2011

Job Title: Webmaster
Company: MCD Productions
Description: MCD Productions are the largest music and event promoters in Ireland, and one of the largest in Europe producing and promoting concerts for acts such as The Kings Of Leon, Take That, Snow Patrol and many others. They also promote the largest music festival in Ireland, Oxegen.

While at MCD I was solely responsible for all company websites, including www.mcd.ie and www.oxegen.ie, working both on front end design and back end coding and creation, as well as maintaining the company's social media presence.
From:01/Jun/2007 To:31/Aug/2008

Job Title: Creative Director
Company: Rock The Vote Ireland
Description: Rock The Vote Ireland was the first licenced partner of the US Rock the Vote movement. Centered around the 2007 Irish Election, the campaign increased voter awareness among young people in the country.

As we were a small team, my role as Creative Director covered all areas of design, including the campaign website, branding material (including branded promotional items) and all print material across a wide variety of media and publications.
From:01/Feb/2007 To:31/May/2007

Job Title: Technical Director
Company: miCandidate
Description: For a short time in 2009 I was involved with the start-up website miCandidate. The site was a political platform that aggregated political content and syndicated it to media organisations. It also gave grass root politicians a useful set of tools to organise, fund and reach a wide audience of voters.

My role as Technical Director was to create all front end layouts/design for the site, all publicity material (including logos etc) for the company and to liaise with the company developing the backend of the site to ensure all ran smoothly. I also liaised with our content partners (inc The Daily Telegraph and The Independent in the UK and TV5 Monde in France), providing them with the tools needed to syndicate our content into their own websites.

The company was acquired in a MBO in late 2009. See http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/article/14049/business/mbo-nets-political-media-start-up
From:01/Jan/2009 To:01/Jun/2009



Education
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Degree: M.Sc.
Field of Study: Interactive Digital Media
University / College: Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
From:01/Sep/2005 To:01/Sep/2006

Degree: B.A.
Field of Study: Drama and Theatre Studies (Major in Lighting and Set Design)
University / College: Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
From:01/Sep/2001 To:01/Sep/2005