About Me.

I’ve had the pleasure of working with Dean for a number of years now and I’ve always been very impressed by his professionalism and the quality of the work that he produces on a consistent basis.

Dean always understands what’s required from one of our briefs and delivers the work in a timely manner, no matter how complex the project may be.

I would recommend Dean’s services without hesitation and I look forward to working with him on many more projects moving forwards. ​
Marcus Orme, Chief Executive Officer, MediaLab Group
SKILLS
  ✓  Creative Direction 
  ✓  Design Leadership
  ✓  Graphic Design
  ✓  ​Web Design
​  ✓  Event and Exhibition Design
  ✓  Branding and Identity
  ✓  ​Team Leadership
  ✓  UX/UI Design
  ✓  Customer Experience
  ✓  Product Design
  ✓  Project Management
  ✓  Typography
  ✓  Adobe Creative Cloud
  ✓  SEO

KEY I.T SKILLS
  ✓  Adobe: Creative Cloud
​       (InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator Dreamweaver, and Figma)
  ✓  Website design and build in Wordpress, Shopify, Wix and Weebly
  ✓  Microsoft: Office (Word, Excel and PowerPoint)
  ✓  Coding: HTML and CSS
  ✓  Monday.com, Blueshift, Advantage and Creatopy
A creative and ambitious Head of Design with vast commercial and design knowledge of digital, product and print design. Experience of leading multidisciplinary design teams as well as managing departmental workflow.

A trusted partner and collaborator with attention to detail and a thoughtful team approach who can elevate ideas into visual identities for brands. Experience of managing design projects from brief to solution delivery, using expertise in design principles, UX and UI whilst also taking into consideration customer experience and a business commercial lens.

​Multi-industry experience across financial services, retail, not for profit and the education sector. Experience of working with clients from start-up to scale up and global organisations.

EXPERIENCE
HEAD OF CREATIVE AND DESIGN | Harland & Wolff
March 2024 - PRESENT London, United Kingdom
  • Overseeing the planning and execution of all design materials across multiple channels including digital channels, and marketing materials including event graphics.
  • Developing and implementing an in-house design capability for Harland & Wolff including management of any contracted services required.
  • Collaborating with cross-functional teams to create design collateral required to support campaigns that effectively target key customer segments and partner organisations.
  • Building and maintaining relationships with key stakeholders including clients, industry partners, media and marketing suppliers.
  • Support Harland & Wolff Group to plan, develop and execute our global exhibition, events and conference strategy to support the commercial team and strategic goals.
  • Developing and expanding in-house branded merchandise, signage and assets.

Key achievements
  • Creative direction and design of campaigns, exhibition stands and publicity material leading to the successful bid of a £120million international shipbuilding contract
  • Design and production of the company Annual Report
  • Design and branding of exhibition stands for global company networking events
  • Project lead on the development of a new company website with e-commerce functionality


HEAD OF DESIGN | Southbank Investment Research
OCTOBER 2018 - March 2024 London, United Kingdom
Southbank Investment Research is an independent financial research publishing company, delivering alternative insights to investors unsatisfied by the mainstream. Southbank publish regular incisive research on disruptive technologies, value investing, property cycles, cryptocurrencies, and global economics.
  • Key member of the Senior Leadership team, collaborating with the Publisher, CMO and Head of Compliance on business strategy, idea generation, innovation and business operations
  • Managing and mentoring a team of designers and developers to establish a strong collaborative team culture in a global organisation with affiliates in The United States, France, Spain, Ireland, Australia, Japan and Brazil.
  • Facilitating workshops to creatively direct marketing campaigns, content and monthly titles to ensure strong design and consistent brand guidelines are at the forefront of all published material
  • Leveraging data-driven analysis to identify areas of improvement, leading to informed and evidence based decision making
  • Managing the Operations Team to produce strong digital design and online content to the companies database of subscribers
  • AI and automation champion to aid advanced working practices and minimise company overheads with a relentless pursuit of new areas of innovation
  • Leading daily scrum meetings to ensure deadlines are adhered to
  • Implementing and managing workflow streams including Monday.com to manage tasks and workflows to fuel team collaboration and productivity at scale
  • Designing and building websites in a variety of applications including Shopify, Wix, Wordpress and Contentful
  • Designing promotional material for both online and print platforms
  • Optimising the UX (user experience), UI (user interface) and CX (customer experience) of subscriber-based websites


Key achievements
  • Re-branding the Southbank company identity to attract new customers to the business. Strengthen brand awareness, whilst enhancing the core values of the company
  • Implementing new design practices within the team to streamline processes
  • Generating revenue by increasing sales and growth of the online subscriber base. Delivering clear, strong design solutions and successful promotions
EDUCATION
  • Certification: Website Publishing using HTML - City of Westminster
  • HND: Advanced Graphic Design (distinction)- City of Westminster
  • ND: Graphic Design (distinction) - City of Westminster
  • Certification: UX and UI Design - The School of UX
  • Certification: Introduction to WordPress - Transmedia Training
  • Certification: Advanced WordPress - Transmedia Training
  • Certification: Introduction to CSS for Web Professionals - Transmedia Training
  • Certification: Advanced Adobe InDesign - Transmedia Training
  • Certification: Web Publishing and HTML / XHTML - Transmedia Training