Why?

I am finding an increasing number of small to medium businesses who, whilst they cannot justify a full time designer, need a regular, consistant web or graphic design presence. A part-time designer gives them the consistancy, 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, 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) experience at a medium, confident level. These applications have HUGE funtionality that I tap as required. I find anything I do not know or cannot do can be quickly and easily learnt via Adobe Help or Google. 

• I subscribe to a number of publications including Before & After Magazine(design), Desktop: (design) & InDesign(Adobe InDesign) as aides to expand my practical abilites.

• I have good XHTML and CSS abilities, and reasonable PHP, MYSQL and JavaScript abilities. Most of the latter 3 has been gained modifying Joomla Components, Modules and Bots. I am currently working my way through the Symfony and CodeIgnitor PHP5 Web Frameworks as methods of rapidly deploying powerful custom web applications.

My Resources

Equipment

• 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
• ASUS 19" WSXGA+ 1440x900 resolution LCD for website colour and resolution proofing
  
• HP Color LaserJet 8550DN 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
• HP ScanJet G4010 desktop scanner; high quality A4 colour scans
• Telstra NextG Wireless Broadband USB dongle modem
  

Software

• Ubuntu 9.1 64bit linux as base OS; provides speed, stability and virus/spyware 'resistance' for internet, email, general office and web design
• Firefox(web browser and design tools), Thunderbird(EMAIL/calendar/tasks), Pidgin(instant messaging), Skype(VOIP), OpenOffice v3.x(MS Office compatible word processor, spreadsheet etc), Sun NetBeans IDE 6.71(web development)
  
  
• Windows XP PRO SP3 under a Sun Virtual Box 2.2.x VM(Virtual Machine); for Adobe design applications
  
• Adobe Creative Suite Web Premium CS4(InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Fireworks, Acrobat PRO), Microsoft Visio 2003 PRO, Microsoft Office PRO 2003(Word, Excel, Powerpoint and Outlook mainly for compatability testing), Microsoft Office PRO 2007(Word, Excel, Powerpoint and Outlook mainly for compatability testing), ColorSchemer Studio(colour pallete management)
• FontAgent PRO; font manager with some 15,000 fonts
  

Other

• My own portable work table and chair if required
  

My Relationships

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

Requirements

• A desk, chair and internet connection(wired or wireless) are preferred but not required. I can either work onsite at your premises, offsite at my home office with weekly 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 SECOND Friday, payable in 7 days.
  You pay one easy contract amount with no oncosts such as taxation, superannuation, equipment or software.
  
  
• I also discount any production(printing, CD/DVD etc) I organise through my partners by 10%
  

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