Resume of Nicolas Fitzgerald

Nicolas Fitzgerald
Senior Digital Designer

About

I love working with great clients and agencies of all sizes. If you need an enthusiastic, senior digital designer who can tackle any task from from hand-coding HTML5 and Javascript animation, timeline based HTML5 banner animation tools (Adobe Animate 2018 & GWD), motion design (AfterEffects) and 3D + vector asset creation, do get in touch.I have 15+ years of Digital and creative agency experience, working on all stages of design, development and delivery of brand-driven marketing campaigns, as well as all kinds of OOH delivery. I design, animate and code HTML5 banner campaigns, for clients such as Artemis, Eon, Nestle, EA, FitBit, McDonald's, eBay, RAF.. I work with most banner platforms - Doubleclick Studio, Sizmek, AdForm including recent RM and mobile platforms like Celtra.

Work Experience

August 2018 – September 2018
Digital Designer and Developer
Animating H5 banners using the Greensock library and creating the HTML5 codebase for running banners on eBay's FFM platform.
Highlights
  • Created codebase for FFM platform which a first for the agency
June 2018 – August 2018
Senior Digital Designer/Developer
At Leo Burnett's I was responsible for the design, animation, coding and management of all the banners for McDonald's account, as well as doing their portal skins and various other web assets.
Highlights
  • Automation of coding workflow using the Bannertime generator
  • Animated with the Greensock TweenMax javascript engine
May 2018 – June 2018
Senior Digital Designer/Developer
Createdm, animated and managed all the HTML5 banner production fpr Doubleclick and adForm platforms
Highlights
  • Worked on and built Google dynamic banners
July 2017 – January 2018
Senior Hybrid Designer/Developer
WCRS brought me in to lead the HTML5 rich-media banner campaigns design, development and publishing. I've created campaigns for Artemis, HMRC, RAF, CapitalONE and EON. Aside from banners, I was involved with motion graphic design and aimation for D6 units, SixSheets and various other OOH formats for Sky Broadband
Highlights
  • Reintroduced Flash (currently named Adobe Animate 2018) for complex HTML5 banner creatives.
  • Contributed to winning several pitches.
  • Had the opportunity to personally illustrate for high profile website sites such as E.ON
May 2017 – June 2018
2D Vector Illustrator
I was hired at Partners to create vector based illustrations, and a series of infographics for a mobile first global marketing campaign for EON. The main subject of the illustrations was electonic cars and various electonic vehicle scenarios
Highlights
  • created some very complex vector illsutration infographics for eON's campaign to promote electonic cars
September 2016 – May 2017
Senior Digital Designer + Developer
Senior Digital Designer and front end Dev. Responsible for design + hand coding of integrated campaigns for Electronic Arts' HTML5/CSS/js rich media banners delivered through Google DCS/DCM, AdForm etc. Design work incuding UI and Sketch layouts for FitBit iPhone apps, as well as design/motion graphics work on numerous EA DOOH placements.
Highlights
  • Created optimized workflows for HTML5 banner production.
  • Created automatization tools and apps, enabling QC's and PM's to publish to FTP and navigate LAN structure quicker.
April 2011 – September 2016
Digital Designer and Developer
This was the wild and woolly times during the transition period from Actionscript to HTML5, I freelanced for Wundermans, Crayon, Proximity, Razorfish, Meme, Dare and Hogarth.
August 2010 – February 2011
Head of Interactive and Principal Actionscript Developer
My role at RMG Connect was as Head of Interactive and Principal AS dev, leading a team of 6 Flash developers/designers creating interacive content and campaigns, mostly for the HSBC account. I was responsible for creative and technical aspect of coding, animation, graphic asset design+delivery on interactive HSBC online campaigns, as well as mentoring Flash/AS/HTML team.
Highlights
  • The highlights of my time at RMG Connect was being able to create highly engaging and programatically complex Flash based campaigns
April 2009 – June 2010
Senior Actionscript Developer
Actionscript 2 OOP development. Built Flash frameworks, components and apps for large sites for clients such as nakheel.com and Shell.
Highlights
  • We have produced some very tight OOP code during my time at Digitas
April 2008 – September 2009
Creative Interactive Developer
At Imagination, I worked on AirPoint Gestural Interaction and Motion Tracking hardware (nowadays we call that simply Augmented Reality) app development for the Shell Group. I also developed apps and visual assets for the Shell interactive video wall hardware (AR again). On the visual/graphic design side, I created 3D and animated assets used by the GestureTek hardware (Modo, Flash and AfterEffects).
Highlights
  • This was my first contact and opportunity to work on AR software and hardware before the term was even coined
May 2007 – November 2008
Interactive TV Designer
At Y&R apart from branding design related work, I was tasked with creating graphic layouts, type-setting+typography, as well as asset creation for interactive TV adverts running on Sky TV. I also created assets for various interactive (flash) banners. The client was the Sky interactive TV platform.
August 2008 – December 2009
Flash Animator and Coder (Senior)
Designed, animated and coded highly interactive Flash banner campaigns for Barclays, at Dare
January 2008 – August 2008
Principal Flash Developer
Flash AS3/AS2, Lingo Adobe Air, Shockwave specalist. Worked on Links of London, Uniqlo, CWharton, Reiss, Kurt Geiger accounts
June 2006 – February 2007
Freelance Graphic Designer - Interactive TV
Freelance developer/ digital designer at Wundermans, designing graphic layouts and typography for interactive TV ads. Design and execution of creatives for interactive online banners. Clients: Land Rover, Microsoft.
May 2003 – May 2006
Interactive Designer (Senior)
As an interaction designer my role at RedBee included designing/creating and managing brand driven marketing campaigns across online, interactive TV, and print media. I worked on BBC internal work such as promotional Flash games and banners, as well as external clients such as Lexus, BT, NHS (Five-A-Day campaigns + sites).
June 2001 – May 2003
Promo Director
Online Promo Director - BBC Creative Services. Responsible for the entire BBC promotional banner service for the bbc.co.uk site, as well as all of the BBC promotional Flash content made at the time. Content creation such as online apps, games, as well as authoring bespoke 2D and 3D graphic assets for promoting individual BBC TV programmes - Blue Planet, Walking With Beasts, and larger scale events - BBC Three and BBC Four channel launches.
December 2000 – April 2001
Freelance Flash and Lingo Developer and Designer
Created entire Flash and Shockwave (Director/Lingo) based sites for viviennewestwood.co.uk, Tracey Emin, Brian Harvey, Bridget Jones Diary Film site. Designed and coded numerous Flash games, desktop apps such as screen-mates, screen-savers, cd roms. Created vertice-based 3D model assets for online use.
January 1998 – June 2000
3D Artist / Level Editor / Quake server admin
BT Wireplay ISDN and DialUp Online Gaming networks. Specialising in QuakeIII client and Q3A server software (Quakeworld) as well as 3D maps creation and implementation. At Wireplay I also took on to admin and grow the already sizeable UK online gamer community on Wireplay.com and Gameplay.com servers - which at the time were one of the largest online PC gamer environments.

Awards

  • September 2003

    Promax

    Best Online Promotion - 2nd Place

    BBC Walking With Beasts

  • September 2002

    Promax

    Best Online Promotion - Gold (1st)

    Radio ONE - Fatboy Slim Mixing Game

Contact

Education

  • 1991 1994

    Central St Martins College of Art And Design, University of the Arts London

    Bachelor

    Critical Fine Art Practice (CFAP)

    Courses
    • CFAP
    • Fine Art Painting
  • 1994 1997

    Fine Art Academy, Belgrade Faculty of Fine Arts

    M.A. Course

    Fine Art Painting

Skills

Coding Master
HTML CSS Javascript DubleClick Actionsript 1-3 Lingo
Publishing Master
DoubleClick Studio DoubleClick Manager Celtra Sizmek
3D Modelling + Animation Master
3D Studio Max After Effects Premiere
Illustration Master
Sketch
Typography + Design Master
Photoshop Illustrator Sketch

Interests

Blockchain Technologies
BitCoin Steemit

References

Nicolas is a highly skilled and experienced freelance senior level developer. His industry knowledge and ability to work with current trends as well as existing techniques makes him an asset and powerful resource. Devoted and passionate about what he does, I would strongly recommend his involvement for a wide range of digital development and design projects. He is also a very talented illustrator and proven "out of the box thinker". I look forward to working with him again.