I am a professional designer and educator with a Master’s degree in Design and Manufacture specialising in Multimedia and Interactive Design. I am currently lecturing Digital Marketing at IT Blanchardstown and IT Carlow and I previously taught Creative Digital Media at IT Tallaght Dublin teaching Design for User Experience, UX and User Interface Design, Visual Communication, 2D and 3D Animation. I ran my own design business for 12 years designing company stationery, literature, posters, websites and multimedia projects, which can be seen on my portfolio, http://designportfolio.work. I have excellent past experience as a Visual Communication, Graphics Lecturer/Computer Software Instructor at Letterkenny IT and I have proven success as a graphic and media designer in the following areas:

• · Diverse corporate/logo & stationery design
• · Information/editorial & brochure design
• · Packaging/confectionery & tetrapak design
• · Advertising/semiology/’above and below the line’ design
• · Typographic design communication
• · Exhibition design
• · Design software instruction
• · Design history
• · App and Game design
• · Interaction Design/UI Design
• · User Centred Design (Design for User Experience)
• · 2D & 3D Animation
• · Creative management skills and research into design teaching methodologies.