Ben Eldridge
Curriculum Vitae
Personal Details
10 Lionel Road, Tonbridge, Kent TN9 2TD
Skills Profile
- First-rate attention to detail
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Code-level knowledge of web programming, including HTML, CSS, PHP and JQuery
- Extensive experience of filming interview footage and cutaways using digital cameras and editing together in Adobe Premiere Pro
- Good working knowledge of using Adobe After Effects to create animations
- Thorough understanding of DTP and four-colour printing process
- Experience of dealing with printers and specifying job requirements
- Extensive knowledge of computer maintenance/troubleshooting and experience of acting as technical support for colleagues with software and hardware issues, both macOS and Windows
Knowledge of the following applications:
Awards
December 2017
Marie Curie People Awards
Winner of the Leading in our Field award
November 2017
September 2017
Employment
2018 –
Senior Designer, Marie Curie
In addition to the responsibilities below I now approve all business as usual design work and deputise for the Design Manager on visual identity matters
2013 – 2018
Digital/Graphic Designer, Marie Curie
At Marie Curie I have worked on the design and production of a range of projects, including the Blooming Great Tea Party, third party events and the Fundraising for Marie Curie pack. I oversee projects from initial concepts all the way through to final, print-ready materials
Responsibilities include:
- taking briefs from clients to establish the audience for the materials, the deliverables required and deadlines using a range of Adobe Creative Cloud packages to progress initial concepts through to completion
- managing a complex workload that can include long-term projects, smaller jobs and everything in between, meeting often tight deadlines
- liaising with colleagues across the organisation and with outside suppliers
- filming videos using the in-house digital camera and editing them in Adobe Premiere Pro
- updating video graphics to ensure they are in line with the Marie Curie brand
- putting together animations using Adobe After Effects
- producing graphics for digital channels including the Marie Curie website, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and the charity's blog
2008 – 2013
Freelance Graphic Designer
Work completed under the company name Bitmap has included:
- website designs for Pitney Bowes, ABM Office, Catering and Mobility Supplies, Alto Office Supplies, SOS Office Supplies, Murcom Office Products, One to One Office Solutions and All Your Office Needs
- banner designs for Pitney Bowes, Murcom and ABM
- eBook designs for the Open University, Social Europe and Sonia Grant
- email newsletters for Samson Office Supplies, Sweet William Designs and A-Z Stationers
- publications for London Metropolitan University
- design and production of Social Europe Journal
Responsibilities included:
- advertising my services and finding new clients
- getting brief from client, using this to determine appropriate designs for target audience
- using Adobe Creative Suite to come up with initial designs
- liaising with client over design, making amendments based on feedback
- completing job to client's satisfaction
2003 – 2008
Production Editor, Ceramic Review Publishing
Main responsibility was Ceramic Review, the country's leading magazine of ceramic art and craft, but also produced a range of books, catalogues and other publicity materials
Responsible for:
- Ceramic Review, a bi-monthly, 84 page, fullĀcolour publication
- design and production of a range of books and various promotional materials for the magazine and for the annual exhibition Ceramic Art London, including catalogues, leaflets and adverts
- subediting all articles for spelling and grammar, writing headlines and leading paragraphs
- designing all pages in QuarkXPress and Adobe InDesign
- drawing up schedule for each issue and dealing with magazine's printers
- completing all pre-press, including Photoshop image editing, retouching and scanning
- production of final PDFs, checking online proofs and supplying replacement PDFs as necessary
- moving to PDF workflow, with all pre-press moved in-house
- helping initiate and oversaw major redesign of the magazine
Training
January 2015
Transmedia Ltd
Advanced Adobe Premiere Pro
November 2014
Andy Kirk
Visualising data
February 2014
Media Training Ltd
Professional video camera techniques
Education
1998 – 2001
University of Warwick, Coventry
BA (Hons) Politics and Sociology, classification 2:1
1997 – 1998
Chichester College of Arts, Science and Technology, Chichester
2 A-levels: Sociology (A), Law (C)
1994 – 1996
Haywards Heath Sixth Form College, Haywards Heath
3 A-levels: Computing (A), Maths (B), Politics (B)
1988 – 1994
Warden Park Comprehensive School, Cuckfield
10 GCSEs: Science (A*/A*), Maths (A*), Business and Information Studies (A/A), History (A),
English Literature (A), Geography (A), English Language (B), French (B)
Interests
Current affairs, technology, computing, architecture, photography, music composition,
listening to music, filming and editing video, travel