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J.E.D. Gibbs MA CV for 'Jed' (John Ernest Darnley) Gibbs October 2013 page 1 of 2 mobile: 07970 821 877 73 St Catherines Road, Bitterne Park, Southampton, Hants. SO18 1LW Tel: 023 80554125 Born 15 November 1963 in Montreal, Canada. British national living in the UK since 1970. Driving licence. Non-smoker in good health. Married, four children.
Current Employment & Interests:
Mac IT Support
Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton iSolutions Personal Assistant p/t
9-19 Rose Road, Southampton, SO14 6TE. Parkinson's care PA Freelance & Interests
Education & Qualifications: passed Southampton Institute (now Solent University) 2002-4 Web design, Final Cut, Soundtrack & DVD Studio Pro. 3D CGI using Cinema 4D & Poser.
Photoshop & Flash OCN Level 3 Certificates passed Southampton City College 2002-4
BA (hons) Graphic Design degree course at Coventry (Lanchester) Polytechnic, 1983-4
Typography, photography, computer animation and audio-visual. Completed first year.
Foundation Diagnostic Certificate in Art & Design passed Southampton Institute 1982-3
Graphic design, drawing, painting, ceramics, sculpture & photography.
A and O-Levels passed at King Edward VI School, Kellett Road, Southampton 1976-1982:
3 A-Levels:
Richard Eno, Head of Creative Industries Faculty
Previous Employment
Teacher part time
Calmore Road, Totton, Southampton. SO40 3ZX Dreamweaver; Photoshop; InDesign; Flash; stop-mo animation Web design and maintenance, bookings, customer care & admin.
Previous Employment CV for 'Jed' (John Ernest Darnley) Gibbs page 2 of 2 Digital Print Manager Rushington Ind Est, Totton, Southampton.
Mar 2007 - Aug 2007
Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Coreldraw. Large inkjet printers Tech Instructor p/t
East Park Terrace, Southampton. SO14 0YN Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Vectorworks 3D Lecturer part time
5 Jan 2000 - Sep 2006 Photoshop, InDesign & Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Flash, iMovie
+ Mac Technician
Final Cut Pro/Express, After Effects, stop-motion & 2D animation Night Manager
Fairway Reprographics Ltd. Chandlers Ford Ind. Est., Eastleigh
15 May 97 - 5 Jan 2000 Pre-press for BHS, Butlins, CenterParcs, Pitkin Guides & Rexam.
Photoshop retouching & cut outs of drum-scanned photographs.
Magazine production using QuarkXPress and PageMaker. Graphics and advert origination in FreeHand and Illustrator.
Team Leader
Rexam Pharmaceutical Packaging Ltd. Eastleigh, Hampshire.
24 July 96 - 15 May 97 Responsible for the Origination Department during my shift. Carton designs in Freehand, Illustrator & QuarkXPress; barcodes, security features, scanning photographs, trapping & imposition to Packaging was cutter profiles stepped up to 21/plate. Film check & plate making. Cartons either process + spot colours and UV varnish or up to seven spot colours. Macs, PS/2 RIP + Scitex Dolev imagesetter.
Contract 1st Printer
P&O Cruises (UK) Ltd. Richmond House, Southampton
16 Aug 95 - 20 July 96 Senior Leading Hand sailing with the cruise ships Oriana, Canberra & Victoria. Responsible for all printed material on board.
Layout of newspapers, menus, invitations, and shop promotional leaflets on Macs running Pagemaker, QuarkXPress & Photoshop.
Apple Mac Artworker Swift Graphics (UK) Ltd. Marsh Lane, Southampton
18 April 95 - 11 Aug 95 Pre-press for ad agencies and magazines including BBC Wildlife.
Proprietor
JedSet Design, Typeset and Print 12 Marsh Lane, Southampton
1 Oct 1987 - 10 Feb 95 QuarkXPress, PageMaker, Freehand, Illustrator & Photoshop for Mac design/DTP; MS Excel & FileMaker Pro for administration.
Turnover £100,000+/p.a. employing two designers, a process camera operator/platemaker and two press minders + admin.
Clients included Lloyds Bank, Alldays, KPMG Peat Marwick, Thomas Cook, British Telecom Marine and Contact Advertising.
Provided work experience for students through Trident scheme. In addition to design on the Macs I also gained experience in proof-reading, pagination, darkroom camera work, plate making, running SRA3 Rotaprint 2 col presses, folding machine, power guillotine, paper drill, 24 station collation machine, sales, administration and VAT returns.
Mac Artworker
Aspen Advertising 121 The Avenue, Fareham. PO14 3DP
Brochures, postcards & Bouldens matchboxes on Macintosh II.
Typesetter/Artworker Offset Colour Print Woodside/Empress Road, Southampton
2 Feb 1987 - 15 Aug 87 Typesetter on Digitek 2000/Quadritek, paste-up, process camera.

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