Why?

I am finding an increasing number of small to medium businesses who, while they cannot justify a full time designer, need a regular, consistent web or graphic design presence.

A part-time designer gives them the consistency, easy access and professional approach they require, at affordable rates compared to normal 'individual' engagements.

My Experience

• I have worked for small, medium and large companies over the last 20 years, in roles as diverse as sales, marketing, accounting, management, purchasing(local and international), importing, warehouse, product development and IT.
• I am a creative, practical, lateral thinker with a perfectionist streak.
• I class my Adobe application(InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Acrobat PRO, Encore, Premiere) experience at a medium, confident level. These applications have HUGE functionality that I tap as required, and find anything I do not know or cannot do can be quickly and easily learnt.
• I subscribe to a number of IT & design publications including Before & After Magazine(design), Desktop: (design) & InDesign(Adobe InDesign) as aides to expand my practical abilities and keep up-to-date with the IT world.
• I have good XHTML and CSS abilities, and quite reasonable PHP, MYSQL and JavaScript abilities. Most of the latter 3 has been gained modifying Joomla Components, Modules and Plugins.
  I am currently working my way through the CodeIgnitor PHP5 Web Framework as methods of rapidly deploying powerful custom web applications.
  
  

My Resources

Equipment

• MAIN
  
  • HP 8710w Business Workstation Notebook;
    Intel Core2Duo T7700 2.4Ghz CPU, 8Gb RAM, 250Gb 7200rpm HDD, DVD burner, nVidia Quadro FX1600M 512Mb Workstation Graphics, 17" WUXGA 1900x1620 resolution LCD
• SERVER/BACKUP
  
  • HP nx9420 Business Notebook;
    Intel Core2Duo 2.0Ghz CPU, 2Gb RAM, 500Gb 7200rpm HDD, DVD burner, ATI x1600 256Mb Graphics, 17" WSXGA+ 1680x1050 resolution LCD
• HP 19" WXGA+ 1440x900 resolution LCD Monitor for website size proofing
• HP Color LaserJet 9500DN A3 colour laser printer; high quality, large format printing and 'near offset print quality' proofs
• HP DesignJet 130N A1 6*Vivera dye ink based colour wide format inkjet printer; high quality, poster sized printing and proofs
  +A0 Rotary Trimmer
• HP ScanJet G4010 desktop scanner; high quality A4 colour scans
• Panasonic Lumix DMC-FS15 12mp Digital Camera, Tripod, Backdrops, Light Box and Lighting

Software

• MAIN
  
  • Windows 7 PRO 64bit Operating System
  • Firefox(web browser and design tools), Google Chrome(web browser), Skype(VOIP), Sun NetBeans IDE 7.x(web/application development)
  • Adobe Creative Suite Web Premium CS4(InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Fireworks, Acrobat PRO, Dreamweaver), Microsoft Visio 2003 PRO, Microsoft Office PRO 2010(Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Publisher, Access and Outlook), ColorSchemer Studio(colour pallete management)
  • FontAgent PRO; font manager with some 15,000 fonts
  • Oracle Virtual Box 4.x VM(Virtual Machine) with Windows XP PRO SP3, Fedora, Ubuntu and LinuxMint Virtual machines for testing
• SERVER/BACKUP
  
  • LinuxMint 11 32bit Operating System
  • LibreOffice 3.x(Word Processor, Spreadsheet, Database, Drawing), Firefox(web browser and design tools), Thunderbird(EMAIL/calendar/tasks), Google Chrome(web browser), Skype(VOIP), Sun NetBeans IDE 7.x(web/application development)
  • Oracle Virtual Box 4.x VM(Virtual Machine) with Windows XP PRO SP3 VMs including Microsoft Office PRO 2003(Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Publisher, Access and Outlook) and Microsoft Office PRO 2007(Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Publisher, Access and Outlook), Adobe Creative Suite Web Premium CS4(InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Fireworks, Acrobat PRO, Dreamweaver), Microsoft Visio 2003 PRO, Microsoft Office PRO 2010(Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Publisher, Access and Outlook), ColorSchemer Studio(colour pallete management, FontAgent PRO; font manager with some 15,000 fonts

Other

• My own small portable work table and chair
  OR
  My own more permanent desk and chair
  IF REQUIRED

My Relationships

• I work with a number of large wholesale printers, sign manufacturers and media duplicators/replicators to ensure my clients get great, consistant quality at an affordable price.

Requirements

• A desk, chair and internet connection(wired or wireless) is preferred but not required. I can either work on-site at your premises, off-site at my home office with regular meetings to co-ordinate ongoing projects or a mix of both.

How much?

Less than you might think.

• I discount my already reasonable hourly rate by approx 1/3 based on a minimum of one day(8 hours) per week, 48 weeks per year(3, 6 or 12 month contracts), billable each Friday afternoon, payable within 7 days.
  You pay one easy contract amount with no on-costs such as taxation, superannuation, equipment or software.
  
  
• I also discount any production(printing, CD/DVD etc) I organise through my partners by 10-15%

If you are interested, give me a call and let's have a chat!