Mitchell Bryson Personal Information Date of Birth 09 / 06 / 1986 Address 8 Rutland House, Adelaide Lane, Sheffield S3 8BJ Telephone +44 (0) 7812 594 090 Email work@mitchbryson.com Portfolio www.mitchbryson.com Profile I am a punctual and polite person, passionate about my work, and keen to progress my knowledge of the ever changing industry I work in. I pay particular attention to detail in my work and take pride in creating the best solutions for the project I am involved in. Education The Dronfield School 1997 – 2002 GCSE’s; one B, eight C’s. one D. I didn't go onto A level or any further education because I felt I'd have a much more fulfilling education by gaining experience whilst working at a job I already had ambitions for. Work Experience PlusNet – Plus.net February 2007 – Present At PlusNet as was able to work on varied projects from redesigning and implementing new web pages to building marketing emails and creating SEO strategies. I also worked on a lot of internal interfaces, redesigning certain aspects to improve usability. Here I learnt a lot about being in an agile development environment, where problems are raised and fixed within hours. I also worked on multiple brands website's. Ebuyer (UK) Ltd – Ebuyer.com June 2005 – February 2007 I left Rethink Creative to try working in a larger team of designers at Ebuyer. I was responsible for the design of the advertising on and off the site, receiving briefs from the marketing managers for promotions being held. I also stretched my print portfolio further with advertisements in magazines such as T3, Stuff, Computer Active and PC Pro. I also worked on a sideline project for trade customers, designing the fronted of a new on-line store. Rethink Creative Ltd – rethinkcreative.com December 2004 – June 2005 I joined Rethink as their only web designer/developer. As a small company it gave me more freedom in the projects I worked on and helped me work much more efficiently as I was able to control and organise everything. I designed and developed 17 websites in 5 months, as well as four identities and 1 printed brochure. I was also able to increase my working knowledge of Object Orientated programming and print design. I left rethink because of their relocation to Spain. Virgin Cars Ltd – virgincars.com (no longer available) March 2004 – December 2004 I was contacted by a recruiter to join Virgin Cars, as their sole web designer. I maintained their own site as well as DC Cook Direct and developed identities and sites for other Motoring solutions they offered such as Northern Vehicle Rental. This was also my first major experience with on-line marketing, which I started my own project on and increased traffic through to virgincars.com by 125%. I left virgin cars for a better opportunity at a smaller company. Freelance - mitchbryson.com October 2003 – March 2004 I left Technophobia with a strong portfolio and some knowledge of basic PHP and MySQL development. I went on to design, develop and project manage 6 websites for 4 local and International clients. This time gave me a huge amount of experience with working with clients face to face, and developing entire projects on my own - from design to production, to marketing and maintenance. Technophobia Ltd – Technophobia.co.uk January 2003 – October 2003 I started with Technophobia 3 months after finishing school. The 3 months prior to this gave me a chance to build up a small portfolio of client work, freelancing. The entire design department at the time were Fine Arts graduates, therefore I was only offered a junior placement. At Technophobia I was able to develop my technical HTML and CSS skills, As well as working on time sensitive projects and becoming familiar with browser and platform compatibility. I helped with sites such as The Co-Operative Bank, Greenflag and designed two templates for their e-commerce system which are still being used today. Objectives My objective is to continue a career in new media, becoming a Senior Designer, responsible for projects being finished on time and in budget, as well as managing people to get the work done. I would also like to be involved with on-line marketing of the websites I make, as I enjoy seeing the results after a project is completed. Skill set I do most things relating to on-line design, development and marketing. I've branded websites and companies, designed sites from brochure size to massive e-commerce stores. I've managed clients on a freelance level, including projects and meeting deadlines. I've worked in design teams of one to eight, as well as working with numerous marketing and development departments. And despite my age (21 if you didn't know), I have 6 years of solid web design experience. More specifically, I hand code X/HTML and CSS daily, I'm an intermediate with Javascript and I use jQuery occasionally because I find it's the most documented and easiest to use of the Javascript libraries. I've developed PHP applications such as property management and CMS. I've used flash, but dislike it - probably because I'm not good enough to do things like games in it. I'm very proficient with Photoshop and Illustrator and I've got a couple of years of SEO, such as, whilst working for virgin I solely increased traffic by 125% using organic white hat SEO. I like to be as creative with SEO as I am with my design, and it usually gets results. My main passion is website design and front-end development.