I have been a professional new media designer for 4 years, working in and around Manchester and the North West. Over the last 16 months, I have worked as head of department for the gate films. prior to this I worked on an extremely wide variety of freelance projects, across a range of disciplines.In 2004 I graduated from UCLAN with a 1st class degree in multimedia. In my time at university I specialised in animation, music, interactive art and installation art.  Since graduating I have honed my skill as a designer and worked on a variety of different projects from web design, banner design, interactive games, DVD authoring, animation, music and film.I have high-end software knowledge of Adobe Dreamweaver, Flash, Illustrator, Photoshop, After Effects, Keynote, Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro, Reason and DVD studio pro.