Australian Electoral Commission 2021/2025
Midway through 2021, I joined the AEC on a short-term contract as part of the 2022 election preparation workforce in the Media and Digital Engagement Team (M&DE). Over the last four years, my primary focus has been developing AECTV. This has included scripting, visual planning, audiovisual setup, photography, videography, interviewing, editing, animation, product distribution, equipment maintenance, file administration and consolidation, resource coordination, and relationship building.
As an extension of my duties with AECTV, I was the team lead for the Roving Reporters (RR), a group of between 15 and 40 people (depending on the electoral cycle) across Australia who would go out on location and video/photograph various stages of the electoral process. Part of leading this team included coordinating content capture across central and remote Australia, providing direction, storyboarding and scripting, aligning opportunities to generate assets, consolidating and editing the footage into explainer videos and short-form content that showcased the elements of the election process in real-time for social media platforms, and more.
As the lead videographer for the AEC, I have spent a significant amount of time traveling to remote and central Australia, documenting various stages of the electoral process, building relationships, and talking to and interviewing people in communities.
Part of my obligations within the M&DE team included creating daily media monitoring summaries and media reports, answering the media phone, providing tacit and up-to-date knowledge of the electoral process and trending related themes to journalists and members of the public. I was responsible for creating and distributing the majority of the social media assets preemptively and reactively. Additionally, I created corporate and consumer document designs with a special focus on working on the ballot paper production as part of the design team.
Finally, as the team’s graphic designer, I ensured brand alignment across all visual outputs while producing a substantial portion of the creative collateral for both our team and the broader branch’s on-demand projects. In this capacity, I designed media headers, website banners, thumbnails, social media graphics, graphs, corporate documents, pull-up banners, media walls, and a variety of other educational materials.
*Due to contract restrictions I am unable to showcase design work completed. To view work please visit AEC social media pages and AEC TV. Further work evidence can be viewed upon meeting request.
Navy Canteens 2020/2021
While at the Royal Australian Navy Central Canteens Board, my key duties in this role consisted of being the sole developer of marketing materials, including the creation of marketing plans, idea generation, content development and design, coordination with external providers, and distribution of assets.
In addition, I assisted with the production and maintenance of presentations, key corporate documents, e-newsletters, and all corporate and promotional materials. I created photography collateral and built online videos, ensured that all creative activities were delivered in line with budgets, time frames, and project constraints, and attended external marketing and promotional events to represent Navy Canteens.
Finally, the project I was most proud of was leading the development and design of a new national re-brand, accompanied by the development and design of the brand name, logo, a new website, and a mobile application which went live during 2022.
*Due to contract restrictions I am unable to showcase all design work completed. To view work please visit The Navy’s Anchorage website.
Murrays Coaches 2019
In 2019, I started working at Murrays Coaches as the Graphic Design Coordinator. In this role, I created a wide range of visual collateral that stretched across all areas of the business. This included creating banners and content updates for the web application, designing EDMs, assisting in the development and launch of the SharePoint site, updating documents and translating them into the corporate style guide, creating brochures and pamphlets to display timetables and service information, and corporate documents and prints.
Additional duties included creating posters, full window displays, bus signage, and various other digital deliverables, as well as heading up the development and creation of various training and announcement videos, including designing storyboards, videoing content, editing footage, and setting up for release.
*Due to contract restrictions I am unable to showcase design work completed.
Constable Screen Printing 2017/2018
In 2017 I started working for Constable screen printing where I worked as a Junior Graphic Designer. My role included working closely with corporate style guides, liaising with clients, creating mockups of designs, setting up designs for print, creating new logos and other general design tasks that came up. I also carried out general accounting duties including inputting invoices, paying invoices, following up client payments, contacting suppliers, reconciling cheques, and paying staff.
*Due to contract restrictions I am unable to showcase design work completed.
Overall Photography 2016-2018
During my time at Overall Photography I assisted in videoing for different events, putting together videos for production, creating banners for events and production, and constructed animations for realestate and event videos.
*Due to contract restrictions I am unable to showcase design work completed. To view work please visit www.overallphotography.com.au
Miscellaneous Freelance Work
Since 2017, I have worked for a variety of different companies completing logos, brochures, stickers, flyers, videos, and websites. A lot of this work has been for companies in Port Macquarie and the Mid North Coast where I have been instrumental in helping businesses find their feet. To see more specific examples of Website Designs please contact me on 0437 288 537.