Curriculum Vitae of the Birks

This is the Curriculum Vitae of Graham J Birks. To contact Birks, click here.

Personal profile

An enthusiastic and imaginative graduate, who is hard working, reliable and adaptable to many situations. Friendly, considerate and approachable, works well either in a team or by himself.

Skills and abilities

Skilled with Adobe Photoshop, Corel Draw and more, and can adapt to new programs easily. Good design skills, with a simple and expressive illustration style. Experienced in Web Design, including HTML, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash, SSI and others.

Work experience

September 2002 - present | iDOiNK Technologies.

October 2001 - September 2002 | Pyramid New Media. Web site design and realisation.
Duties include meeting with clients to discuss requirements, producing samples and taking this process through to complete corporate identities and marketing and e-commerce web sites including facilitating web hosting and e-mail services. www.pyramidnewmedia.com

July 2000 - September 2001 | Spears Computer Services. Corporate Identity and Web site Designer. www.spearscomputers.co.uk

2000 | ISIS, Suffolk County Council, Ipswich. Trainee Internet Analyst. Web design, including HTML and JavaScript experience, introduction to Perl, and more.

1999 - 2000 | Freelance design work for several clients, including a corporate identity for a mortgage company, and poster and card design for health promotion campaign.

1998 - 1999 | Suffolk College Library, Ipswich. Shelf Tidier and Copyright Surveyor.

1998 | HMV Ltd., Ipswich. Sales Assistant.

1997 | Received an award for a corporate identity project by McNaughtons Paper Company, as part of their annual review of contemporary graphic design.

1997 | Designed a new corporate identity for Suffolk College Students' Union, as part of a competition.

1996 | Commissioned artwork for Stuart Taylor MSc for schools around East Anglia.

1996 | Kelly Services, Ipswich. Varied agency work in Ipswich, such as Customer Services at Sainsbury's, packaging at Cowells Ltd., and several jobs at Tooks Bakeries.

Qualifications

1999 - 2000 | CLAIT and IBT2, ITEC, Ipswich.

1997 - 1999 | BA Hons Design Studies, University College Suffolk, Ipswich.

1998 | The Cartoon Academy, Home study course

1995 - 1997 | BTEC HND in Design Communications, University College Suffolk, Ipswich.

1993 - 1995 | BTEC ND in General Art and Design, Chesterfield College, Chesterfield.

1988 - 1993 | Eight GCSEs including English and Mathematics, Deincourt School, North Wingfield, Chesterfield.

Hobbies and interests

Producing cartoons for various purposes, recently moved into animation.
Film, television and video.
Computing: PC's, Macs and others, retro gaming, internet.
Varied music interests.

References

Available on request.