BORN: Nottingham, England.
 
EDUCATION:
'VCE' Victorian Certificate of Education.
'HSC' Higher School Certificate.
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology -
Department of Industrial Design.
Faculty of Design
Degree: Bachelor of Art and Design [BA&D]
 
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: 2005-Pres.
Sprocket Design, Melbourne, Australia.
Design Consultancy
Project Manager: Main projects undertaken::
Various multi-media & interactive touch screen
information systems.
  2004-2005
Contract Designer, Melbourne, Australia.
Designer / Project Manager: Companies and projects worked:
POSAM Ltd.:
Various Point of Sale and shop fit systems for
Bata Footwear, Brown Brothers, Elizabeth Arden,
L'Oreal, Maytag, MYOB, Playgro, Saeco and Telstra,.
Kinkora Gallery [Hawthorn]:
Interior, furniture and fixings design for Kinkora
Gallery. Bar and commercial kitchen design
for gallery
Blade Solutions:
Ongoing product design and development of motorcycle accessories product range.
Invetech Pty Ltd.:
Industrial design for various Reckitt Benckiser FMCG projects. Initial systems architecture for a medical diagnostic reagent cartridge and micro-pump.
 
2003-2004
Ingenious Design, Bucks, England.
Design consultancy
Designer: Main projects undertaken:
Interactive Information Kiosk design and development for Memorex.
Interior and furniture design for Insync Productions, BBA Aviation
Merchandising and POS for Gul, WoofWear and Versace
Exhibition and Event design for SAP, GlaxoSmithKline, Firestone, McConnel, Amex.
General Exhibition, Interior, POS and Furniture design.
 
  2003-2004
[Part time]
American Intercontinental University, London Campus, England.
Lecturer: Design Faculty
Part time and guest Lecturing.
Workshop and tutorial running.
 
  2001-2003.
Space Design, Marlow, England.
Design consultancy
Designer: Main projects undertaken:
Plasma Screen Design and development for Direct Digital Plasma [Delphi].
Vortex Demo Plasma Console range design and development.
Interior and furniture Design for ICL headquarters.
Exhibition and Event design for KPNQwest, Sanyo, GlaxoSmithKline and SAP.
General Exhibition, Interior, POS and Furniture design.
 
  1999-2001
Freelance Designer, London, England.
Designer: Companies and projects worked:
Fusione Design Development Ltd.:
Retail Design for Mango, Clicksoftware. Animated Multi-media console for BT.
Event Communications Ltd.:
Magna Steel and Elements Museum design and layout. [Winner of RIBA Award 2001]
Button Eventures Ltd.:
Medical trade show design and layout.
World Visual Ltd.:
Scheme and in-store POS for River Island.
On-Line 2Go and TotallyPortable.com:
Web-development and design, navigation and user interface design.
Design Continuum Italia SRL.:
Portable sound generator unit.
Presco Ltd.:
In-store interactive internet terminal for Marks and Spencers.
Nimrod Systems:
Virtual music studio software.
 
  1998-1999
Design Continuum Italia, Milan, Italy.
Design Consultancy.
Designer: Main projects undertaken:
Roche-Diagnostics Blood Glucose Meter,
Puma All-terrain Running Shoe and Fastening System

[featured in Luc Besson's 2001 feature film 'Yamakasi']
Motorola Telecommunications Base station.
 
  1997-1998
Visual Line, London, England.
Design Consultancy.
Designer: Main projects undertaken:
Umbro ISPO Exhbitions, Ocˇ Exhibition, R.C.Lens Football Retail Outlet
[Lens, North France -located a Le Stade Bollaert -1998 World Cup Venue].
Merchandising and POS for Bang and Olufsen, The Body Shop, Nike, Superdrug, Next, USC and Richards.
Signage for Ministry of Sound.
 
  1996-1997
[Part time]
Black on Black Film Group, Melbourne, Australia.
Designer: Prop design and build. Assistance on location while shooting.
 
  1995-1997
Form Australia, Melbourne, Australia.
Design Consultancy.
Designer: Main projects undertaken:
Dowell Security door furniture range, Viscount Nursery Pail, Country Road Luggage Range, Memorex Boarding Pass chute, Britax pram seat and in-car baby capsules and Caroma shower.
Multi-media Kiosks for NEC, Melbourne University, Crown Casino, Hewlett Packard and Imaging Technologies.
  

AWARDS /
CONTRIBUTIONS:
Guest Speaker at IDEAS Conference Melbourne, Australia 2005.

Contributed to the design of Magna Steel and Elements Museum. The Museum won the Royal Institute of British Architects Award [RIBA] 2001

Contributed to the design of KPNQwest 2001 Exhibition program. Throughout 2001, the exhibitions won a number of Event organised awards at Smau Italia, Paris Interop, London Internet World and CeBIT, Germany.

Winner of the Design Australia Institute of Australia,
Industrial Practitioners Student Award [1995][DIA Award]

  

COMPUTER SKILLS:
Fluent on Mac and PC operating systems.
Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, Abvent Zoom [3d modelling] and Atlantis [rendering and animation], Ashlar Vellum, Macro-media Freehand, Strata Studio-Pro, Emagic Logic and Microsoft Office.
Have used Autocad, Microstation, SolidWorks, Vectorworks,
Quark Express, Dreamweaver, Director and Soft Image.
  

OTHER INFORMATION:
Holder of dual UK/Australian citizenship.
Holder of current Australian, British and International driving licences for both carand motorcycle.
Raced and tested 600 SuperSports, 750 SuperBikes and
Super-Mono motorcylces.
Session musician work for various groups and ensembles, both 'live' and in-studio.
Composer, programmer and arranger of various compositions including soundtracks for several short films and a feature film utilising digital midi studio.
Former member of the Victorian College of the Arts.

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