Graphic Designer/Multimedia Specialist
Green Ink Publishing Services Ltd., Hawson Farm, Buckfastleigh, Devon,
United Kingdom

Duties include

• Work closely with writers and editors during publication planning to ensure efficient workflow.
• Design and layout various publications/public awareness materials for our international development based clients.
• Establish a new multimedia capacity within the company.
• Develop ‘virtual’ team management systems for internationally based staff.
• Development of a content management system (CMS) for client based web development.

Duties include

• Managing a team of staff in the Multimedia Unit, the Printshop, and the Bindery sections within IITA’s Communications and Information program.
  Facilities include:
  • desktop publishing systems
  • Web and CD-ROM development
  • nonlinear video editing suite
  • photographic studio and processing lab.
  • pre-press film/plate output
  • three offset printing presses
  • perfect binding capacity
• Oversee the general operation of IITA's Communications and Information Program as Acting Head of the program for four months per year – additional units include the Library and Documentation Center, Conference Center, and the Editorial and Public Awareness Units.
• Coordinating the publications workflow through editors, compositors and graphic designers to the Web, the press, and the bindery.
• Management of the annual operational and capital budget to ensure operational expenditure reductions, and efficient asset management.
• Where critical design quality is essential, design and produce conference displays, publications and public awareness materials where necessary.
• Training staff and partners in the use of publishing and Web development tools and techniques.
• Evaluating and introducing new technologies and computer applications to IITA where necessary.
• On a day-to-day basis manage the ad hoc multimedia service requirements of the institute.

Successes

• The training of the compositors in traditional typographic conventions and the development of a low cost digital pre-press output have produced significant publication quality improvements at reduced costs.
• Web development courses held for partners in Africa, each of which now manage their own web capacity. See feedback left by one participant (at the bottom of the page)
• Through the support given to local commercial print houses IITA publications now reach near international quality standards.

Apr 1998–
Apr 2000

Multimedia consultant
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Oyo Road,
Ibadan, Nigeria

Duties included

• Continued development and administration of the IITA Web site, paying particular attention to bandwidth variations experienced by target audiences.
• Training individuals in Web site maintenance and administration to enable IITA’s Web site to be maintained by Nigerian national staff.
• On an institute-wide basis, produce training documentation for production of World Wide Web publishing media to establish training courses for staff and partners.
• Development of the IITA Intranet to encourage knowledge of, and experience of using World Wide Web publishing for information dissemination.
• Evaluating and introducing new technologies and multimedia computer applications to IITA where necessary.
• Implementation of the transition from an Apple Macintosh based system to a PC based system as a requirement to maintain the institute's standardisation policy – this included training staff in the use of the Windows operating system, and ensuring all archives were PC compatible.
• Systems management of the multimedia domain on the IITA Local Area Network. This included the software maintenance of 9 Apple Macintosh workstations, 14 PC compatible workstations running Microsoft Windows 98, and 1 PC compatible server running Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0.
• Assisting the head of Information Services in using electronic media for the efficient transfer of documents to remote research stations through the AfricaLink project of USAID.

Jan 1998–
Apr 1998

World Wide Web consultant
World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), United Nations Avenue, Gigiri, PO Box 30677, Nairobi, Kenya

Feb 1996–
Dec 1997

Audio-visual specialist
Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) contract placement at the
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Oyo Road,
Ibadan, Nigeria

Duties included

• Training two counterparts in the production of audio-visual training materials.
• Training and assisting general IITA staff/Multimedia Unit staff in audio-visual/multimedia production.
• Supervising and training staff in the use and maintenance of audio-visual/multimedia equipment.
• Developing a multimedia capacity within the new Multimedia Unit.
• Advise on computer hardware/software purchasing and systems management.
• The design, development, and maintenance of the IITA Web site.
• The design and development the IITA Intranet.

BA (hons): Photography, film, video, and animation
West Surrey College of Art & Design (WSCAD), Farnham, Surrey, UK

B/TEC National Diploma: General Art & Design
North Essex School of Art & Design, Braintree College of Further Education, Braintree, Essex, UK

Sandon Comprehensive School, Chelmsford, Essex, UK

Landscape, social documentary, photographic art.

I have spent eight months in India and Nepal, three months in Kenya and seven years in Nigeria. I have also traveled frequently to the Republic of Benin, Uganda and South Africa.