About: Kathleen Bright

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Creating projects for the Web

Bright Portfolio exists to bring your web projects to life
I'm Kathleen, the creative behind Bright Portfolio and committed to excellent design
I'm on hand to inspire you and help you achieve your goals

Choose Kathleen: Creative, friendly & professional

I create websites from scratch or bring your designs to life producing websites from your PhotoShop files or PDFs
I'm pasionate about web design and love learning new things to make your project even better
Plus, I assist with hosting, web addresses and all that other geeky stuff

Background

I'm a self-taught web professional, with formal education and on-the-job experience. I'm working full-time for the high-end fashion 'e-tailer' Net-A-Porter. My past experience includes roles from Web Designer at Catch Digital to Creative Director of Night Island. I'm always on the lookout for new challenges and love stimulating my brain.

Next Retail is where I devloped my 'other-oriented' focus; I've expanded this in to a variety of fields - developing my naturally friendly personality to become an excellent listener, sensitive to your needs. I'm a people-person who's passionate about creativity, personal development and entrepreneurship.

Summary of my skills & achievements

Skills: Stuff I can do...

Creativity - includes content, ideas, art, photography, image manipulation...
HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SQL, Dreamweaver, PhotoShop, PaintShop Pro
Project management, site administration, ideation, implementation, marketing

Achievements: Stuff I have done...

Run IT department & managed AccountAbility website
Started & run my own successful jewellery business, Bright Light Gems
Designed a platform-independent forum to Intelli-call board specifications

» More details in my CV

Long-term goals

I'm starting, run & own the London Vegan Teahouse - the absolute ideal place to work & chill; staffed with the best people. Let me know if you'd like to join me! :)

Working at AccountAbility and with Great Place to Work™ opened my eyes to how amazing workplaces can be, with the right people, attitudes and environment. As Creative Director in a start-up consultancy, for the first time I felt trulyempowered to make significant & noticeable differences , both in the corporate world and in social justice organisations.

I'm still learning, as I always will be, and focused on devloping my skills in a myriad of diverse environments.

Responsibilities & roles

The role of a designer is to design something to create the effect specified in the brief.

The role of a developer is to implement the design as created by the designer.

As designer & developer, I do both!

Some of my experiences as site admin, creative, designer...

Creative Director, Night Island Consulting

Chiefly responsible for the design & maintenance of the website and for ideation of products & services. We launched the website in late-March 2006; since then they have had considerable interest from investors & prospective clients.
Night Island Consulting

In my role as Creative Director for Night Island Consulting, I was chiefly responsible for the design & maintenance of the website and for product & services ideas.

IT Assistant, AccountAbility (Jan - Apr 2006)

In my last month, I was solely responsible for the IT infrastructure & connectivity of two offices, including over 40 users. In addition, I was responsible for website & newsletter design & development. The newsletter has a steadily rising reach of over 300 subscribers at last count.
AccountAbility

Bright Portfolio

Designer - original design & re-design
Content writer & editor
Branding - logo creation
Search engine optimisation

Plus, I've been a designer, discussion board moderator, viral marketer... and now I'm a web producer.