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Trevor Paul Stephen May
www.trevormay.com


Introduction

Trevor is a highly motivated creative thinker who transforms good ideas into great solutions, with ten years experience working within the digital media and design industries in the UK and USA.

In his spare time Trevor designs, produces and edits the inspirational entertainment blog Antikewl Daily, and tries to draw with a pencil as often as time allows. He also enjoys collecting 1980s video games and consoles, has started to learn French, enjoys animation, film, writing, photography and has, just in his head for now, plans to make several more road trips across North America.


Employment

Freelance Designer
November 2006 - Present
Work has included the design and build, on a tight budget, of a new online shop for children’s clothing brand Toby Tiger, on-going design and front-end web development work for the NHS and More Than and the design and coding of HTML email newsletter templates.

Senior Designer // DOT
October 2005 - November 2006
Being part of a small studio means putting a hand to all areas of the business; including design, development and project management. Designed and developed standards-based accessible websites and banners for clients including Grant Thornton and East Sussex County Council, a Flash-based game for the Motorboat Museum as well as developing a bespoke CMS using PHP and mySQL.

Senior Designer // St Enodoc
March 2004 - September 2005
Creative lead at start-up online gaming company based on technologies acquired from Gala Interactive. Role included leading a small design team in London and liaising with the development team in India to produce bespoke online casinos, poker rooms and bingo games for established brands, as well as creating new brands for particular target markets. Role also included the design of online and offl ine advertisements and promotions.

Freelance Designer
November 2001 - Present
Work has included interface design for concept mobile phone interfaces for Orange, a prototype PDA-based game, as well as design for mobile, iDTV and the Web. Continuing design and production work on long-term personal project, SFZone, including integration of bespoke PHP and mySQL content management database with interface design.

Senior Designer // Darestep / Cap Gemini Ernst & Young
January 2001 - November 2001
Lead design and production on the extranet for ‘The Club’, a creative organisation run by The ICA (Institute of Contemporary Arts) in London, created to encourage sharing of ideas, projects and funding between members. Designed interfaces for a convergent media presentation using iDTV and PDAs at the IBC (International Broadcasting Convention), as well as leading other design projects.

Designer // IconMedialab (London & New York)
May 2000 - December 2000
Designed and produced layouts for MagicOnline, a large CMS-driven ‘vertical’ for the fashion industry commissioned by Advanstar, in their New York studio. Designed and produced website to take advantage of upcoming broadband technologies for Cisco Systems. Designed advertisements, and the visual interface for an interactive kiosk, for the in-house recruitment campaign.

New Media Designer // Reflex Design
February 1998 - May 2000
Designed and produced websites and promotional CD-ROMs for clients including Reuters, The Body Shop, The Despatch Association, John Laing, Johnson Matthey, and EPRA. Designed and maintained the company website as well as several client-winning pitches and presentations.

Web and Multimedia Designer // CST Group
November 1996 - February 1998
Designed and produced websites for clients and brands including Allied Domecq, Strongbow, Scrumpy Jack and Fabbri Publishing. Also maintained the local NT4 network and servers.

Technical Support Co-ordinator // The Disney Store
September 1995 - July 1996
Oversaw company-wide network standardisation and upgrade project, and supported the UK headquarters Novell network of around 200 users. Also assisted with design and production of the in-house magazine.


References available on request.


Education

BTEC ND: Computer Studies; A Level: Art.
(Orpington College, Kent)
GCSE: English Language, English Literature, French, Mathematics, Graphical Communication, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, CDT.
(Chislehurst and Sidcup Grammar School)


Skills

Trevor is at home using both Microsoft Windows and Apple Mac OS. He is skilled in numerous software packages and is quick to learn and develop his knowledge in more.

Adobe Photoshop
Adobe ImageReady
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe InDesign
Adobe After Effects
Macromedia Dreamweaver / Homesite
Macromedia Flash
Macromedia Director
Macromedia Fireworks
Macromedia Freehand
Microsoft Office Suite
Final Cut Pro
QuarkXPress
Firefox / Internet Explorer / Netscape

HTML, WML/WAP, SMIL/MMS
XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, ASP, PHP, MySQL
Additional experience designing for: Interactive digital TV: Sky Active, NTL/Liberate and mobile platforms.