Sky / BSkyB
Six years in-house across Sky News, Sky Help and Sky One, combining interactive design, development and creative leadership.
- Years
- 2004–2010
- Position
- Senior Interactive Designer / Developer · Creative Lead
- Role
- Design · Build · Lead
- Relationship
- Employer
- Disciplines
- Interactive design, Development, Creative leadership
Six years in-house at Sky
Six years within Sky’s interactive and digital teams, progressing across senior design, development and creative-lead responsibilities.
I was responsible for creative and technical direction, concept development and the delivery of interactive online services – including pitching concepts, and managing designers, developers, timelines and deliverables.
Contribution
What I designed
Interactive online services, and online content supporting Sky One programming.
What I built
Interactive online services, as a senior interactive designer and developer.
What I led
Creative and technical direction, and multidisciplinary teams at Sky News and Sky Help.
Creative Lead
During a six-month internal secondment, I established and led a multidisciplinary digital team converting broadcast news content into interactive online experiences, managing designers, developers and motion-graphics specialists.
Creative Lead
I led the creative team responsible for the redesign and ongoing digital requirements of Sky’s online customer-service platform, working in an Agile environment.
Senior Interactive Designer
I managed and created online content supporting Sky One programming, including award-recognised work for The Colour of Magic and Skellig.
Recognition
- BDA World Awards 2008 – The Colour of Magic, Bronze
- Design Week Awards 2010 – Skellig, shortlisted for Digital Design – Commercial