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I'm Mark.

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I have been in the design industry for nearly 10 years, working primarily with companies in Northern Ireland. I graduated from the University of Ulster with a Bachelor's Degree in Design for Visual Communication. Since then I have held roles within design companies as a packaging designer, a graphic designer and as a digital designer.

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My roles in employment have allowed me to gain valuable experience and work with some amazing clients like Ferrari, Bentley, Lexus, Power NI, Stena line, Proctor & Gamble and countless others.

 

I now work primarily in the digital space designing and building websites and landing pages. My main passion is UI/UX design, creating websites and applications from the ground up.

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I began my freelance career in 2019 after leaving my job at BeingOnline in Belfast. I work within a freelance company called Putty Squared, helping several other freelancers with projects if and when needed ( Only 2 of us now)

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Over the last 3 years, I have worked on some fantastic projects with some great clients including Queens University, Ledcom Larne, Mid & East Antrim Council, Ballymena Business Centre, Errigal Contracts, Hamilton Architects and many more.

 

Alongside my digital work I have been mentoring other small businesses and freelancers like myself helping them get their business online. I have been employed on the Spark and Kickstart programs helping over 40 new business owners in the last 3 years. I have also delivered webinars on how to build websites yourself via the Mid and East Antrim Council as well as delivered webinars to the Ballymena Women in Business groups also.

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Outside of work, I am married with 2 young kids and if I have 10mins spare (which is rare) I'm either playing or watching sports, especially Football and Golf. I'm also big into all things Tech, Gaming, TV and film!

Experience
  • Chain Reaction Cycles - Placement Graphic Designer - 2011 - 2012

  • Priory Press Packaging - Packaging Designer - 2013 - 2016

  • Charles Hurst - Graphic Designer - 2016 - 2018

  • Being Online - Digital Designer - 2018 - 2019

  • Freelance - Graphic/Digital Designer - 2019 - Present

Skills
  • Highly Proficient in the Adobe Creative Suite - Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign & Adobe XD

  • Excellent typography and layout skills

  • Elementor Pro Expert - I have been using the Elementor page builder since launch

  • Comfortable in WordPress - I enjoy the challenge WordPress brings :)

  • A strong creative and technical mind

  • I love all things digital and have a keen interest in email marketing, SEO, paid ads etc

  • Positive, hard-working and enjoy working in a team 

  • Organised and meet deadlines appropriately

  • Ability to take on new ideas and direction

  • Im not afraid to work a project until completion when required - Deadlines etc!

Tools
  • Adobe Creative Suite

  • WordPress - Elementor page builder, Woo Commerce etc

  • Asana - Project management

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