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Profile

Highly focused creative professional, with extensive understanding of management strategies, design processes, and creation of stylistic guidelines for user-targeted digital contents. Highly communicative, enjoys working in a team to drive visual direction, visual systems, brand identity, production quality and style. Quick to conceptualize and plan contents based on KPI’s and trends to target international market demands.

Experience

Art Director

KLab Games Inc. (January 2012 ~ Present)

Minato-ku, Tokyo.

Design & Marketing Operations Executive

Dagmusic Ltd., Hotteeze Heat Pads Pty Ltd.(October 2007 ~ December 2011)

Minato-ku, Tokyo.
Was responsible for all creative development, directing and coordinating all activities that involved casting & auditions, events, import, export and sales of manufactured products. Analysed global sales data and market research to determine potential business growth areas.

Achievements: Dagmusic Ltd.

• Revolutionized the company's brand identity to attract some the world's biggest game clients such as Konami, Capcom, Nintendo, Square Enix and Bandai Namco Games.
• Effectively coordinated casting and auditions for Japanese super stars including Matsumoto Hitoshi, Katou Miliya, Ohguro Maki and was assistant director for an international BBC Radio Drama "A Tokyo Murder".
• Liaised with major Japanese production and advertising agencies to fulfil their client's project requirements. Clients included Kirin, Panasonic, NTT DoCoMo and The Tokyo Olympic Committee.
• Managed live entertainment for corporate events at some of the most prestigious hotels in Tokyo including The Four Seasons, Grand Hyatt Tokyo and Ritz Carlton.

Achievements: Hotteeze Heat Pads Pty Ltd.

• Between 2007~2010 took the company from selling 677,126 pads in 5 countries to selling over 2,000,000 pads in 19 countries with a gross profit of over 183 million yen.
• Developed innovative advertising campaigns and package designs that were influential in securing deals with Lotus Brands Inc. (USA), Mister Mint (Australia) and Coles – Australia's largest supermarket chain.

Artist, Graphic & Web Designer

Freelance (July 2002 ~ October 2007)

Shropshire, United Kingdom and Tokyo.
Worked with European and Japanese clients to successfully take projects through from initial brief to completion including research, concept design, sourcing of images, client liaison and artwork creation. Created over 30 works for group and solo exhibitions.

Education

B.A., Fine Art

Leeds Metropolitan University, United Kingdom. September 1999 ~ July 2002
Specialised in Contemporary Painting & Sculpture

Technical Skills

• Software: Adobe Acrobat Professional, Bridge, Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Dreamweaver, Premiere, After Effects, Final Cut Pro, Pro Tools, Sound Studio, Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
• Development and administration of content management systems: WordPress, Shopify, RSS
• Web application development languages: XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, PHP
• Web server administration, deployment, and maintenance: MAC OSX Server, Amazon Web Services (S3), MAMP

Interests

• Japanese Language Proficiency Test Level 2
• Art & Design, Swimming, Snowboarding, Travelling, DJ'ing