Lefke Kerr – Curriculum Vitae

Personal Profile

I am looking for a position in an energetic, creative and innovative environment, where I can continue to enhance my range of skills.
I am a fast learner, adaptable, with good problem solving, analytical and organisational skills.
I am professional, thorough, inquisitive, creative, practical and sociable; working well as part of a team.

Experience / Specialisms

Designing / illustrating to brief, target & deadline with Adobe CS5 Photoshop, InDesign & Illustrator, exhibition event organisation, design to silversmithing, design research.
Information architecture, sitemapping and wireframing with MS Visio, interactive design specifications, project documentation, user research, user guides.
Primary research, analysis, magazine analytical feature writing, MS Access querying, bespoke client data queries, internal and external service team communication and communication with stakeholders and key decision-makers.
Production role, assisting producers, project managers and team leads through a project life-cycle.
Project scheduling, tracking, resource tracking.
First point of contact, client liaison, team support.

Achievements

Print design: nested leaflets, posters & screen-print design for canvas bag for The Edinburgh Gadda Prize - Gadda Giovani 2011 competition, targeting Italian teenagers.
Organised, produced and art directed two collaborative art projects with exhibitions, between the University of Edinburgh Italian Department and the Edinburgh College of Art Masters of Illustration Department.
Free fringe theatre performance poster & flyer design commission - drawing in anecdotal record-breaking audience numbers to an Edinburgh PBH Free Fringe play.
Numerous bespoke jewellery design commissions, with 83% return custom.
Photography and filming for Scaled Energy, documenting ground works and wind turbine installation processes.
Requirements gathering and documentation, interactive design specification, competitor research, documentation for stakeholders and decision makers, analytical tool development and analytical writing development for Lloyd's List Intelligence's new Container Channel web and print based product.
Completion of phase one information architecture (IA) and interactive design specification for the redevelopment of the Containerisation International (CI), subscription only, data and analysis web portal.
Over four years experience of feature writing on world containership fleet trends for CI magazine.
Development and documentation of IA for over seven web projects, a combination of independent and team efforts.
Successful project management of Film Education's telephone booking system development.
User documentation for three customised Plone content management system implementations.
Successful support in implementation of ISO 9001 project documentation system and accreditation; conducted successful internal ISO 9001 audit.
Reorganised, rebuilt and maintained Getfrank's intranet and client project extranets, using XHTML, CSS and SSI.
Database construction in MS Access to track and analyse solicitor usage and usage of EAR's information services.

Career History

11/2010 - Present: Freelance designer & Jeweller, Edinburgh
www.lefke.net
04/2010 - 11/2010: Market analyst - Lloyd's List Intelligence - Container Channel, Informa, London
Lloyd's List Intelligence provides business information and analysis for the global maritime community
02/2006 - 04/2010: Researcher - Containerisation International (CI), Informa, London
A monthly magazine, online news, data and analysis service focussing on businesses and trends in the container shipping industry, targeting shippers
08/2005 - 02/2006: Six month contract researcher for awards shortlists - Containerisation International (CI), Informa, London
July 2005: Freelance Information architect, Scream Out Loud, Brighton
New media agency specialising in interactive projects aimed at children
11/2004 - 03/2005: Floating Admin & book-keeping, Brighton Media Centre, Brighton
Provider of serviced office space and business services for small media businesses
10/2003 - 11/2004: Interactive designer, Getfrank Ltd, Brighton
New media agency, specialising in websites and Plone (open-source platform) content management systems
10/2002 - 10/2003: Administration & Production assistant, Getfrank Ltd, Brighton
09/2000 - 09/2001: Ad-hoc Admin support & Telephone advisor trainee, Employee Advisory Resource (EAR), Uxbridge
Employee Assistance Program (EAP) service provider
06/2000 - 08/2000: Ad-hoc Catering assistant & Event steward, London

Education and Personal Development

Metanoia Institute (2009) - Person-centred counselling, 2 day introductory weekend workshop
London College of Fashion (2008) - Pattern Cutting & Fitting 1, evening classes
Birkbeck University (2006 - 2008) - Beginners Japanese, JLPT4
Bishopshalt School, Hillingdon (1998 - 2000) - 3 A-Levels
Whitmore High School, Harrow (1993 - 1997) - 9 GCSEs

Interests

Jewellery making, design & aesthetics
Art, painting, practical arts & music
Literature, reading & creative writing
Humanistic therapy, specifically Client-centred therapy developed by Carl Rogers