| Career to date: |
Accounts worked on: |
| Garratt Baulcombe Associates (Nottingham): July 1978 - October 1980 Junior Copywriter |
Cavendish Woodhouse Viyella Armitage Shanks Steyr-Daimler-Puch bikes and mopeds Dorma bedwear Stag Furnishings |
| Wilson International Advertising & Marketing (Manchester): November 1980 - April 1981 Junior Copywriter |
TSB North West Quicks Ford Dealership Personal Shopping Mail Order Burlington Mail Order Littlewoods Department Stores Co-operative Bank |
| CAMS Financial Direct Marketing (Nottingham): June 1981 - April 1984 Copywriter |
Debenhams Finance Co-operative Bank Ambassador Life Pork Farms Alton Towers Frizzells Insurance Goldbergs Department Stores Mercantile Credit |
| Singer Lewis Associates (Nottingham): May 1984 - May 1985 Copywriter |
Valor Home Products Shipstones Brewery Wrighton Kitchens Maddock Hotelware Acamas Toys |
| Grey Direct (London): January 1986 - October 1986 Copywriter |
Midland Bank Time-Life Books Scotcade Saudia Airlines MISCO Computer Accessories Clydesdale Bank |
| Ogilvy & Mather Direct (London): October 1986 - July 1987 Copywriter |
Lloyds Bank Miller Fundraising British Telecom National Trust North West Securities Rank Xerox Help the Aged |
| CAMS Financial Direct Marketing (Nottingham): July 1987 - February 1988 Senior Copywriter |
North West Securities Standard Life Leeds Permanent Financial Services House of Fraser Co-operative Bank Scottish Widows Sun Life |
| Full-time self-employed freelance copywriter: February 1988 - July 1991 |
Farley's Baby Products The Woodland Trust Crookes Healthcare AFG Nissan Dealership XMA Computer Product Watney Manns Brewery Sun Life Assurance Leeds Building Society ELS Furniture Stores Boots No.7 Trust House Forte Massey Ferguson Development Board for Wrangler Rural Wales Double Two Shirt Barclays Bank Pierre Balmain Tights Streets of London Catalogue Halifax Building Society GPT Communications Stag Furniture Scimitar GTE car Town & Country Eagle Star Building Society Sanatogen Equity & Law Mansfield Inns Boots Opticians Raleigh Bikes Tatung Computer Products Armaguard Security Brush Electrical |
| WWAV (London): July 1991 - February 1993 Senior Copywriter |
The Labour Party Corgi Toys AA Insurance Services Porsche IBM Sun Alliance TSB RSPB NSPCC |
| Keith Barnes Associates (Nottingham): February 1993 - October 1994 Deputy Creative Director |
Sun Life Midland Bank Personal Financial Services Friends Provident Leeds Permanent Financial Services BMA Services Yorkshire Bank Commercial Union |
| WWAV Rapp Collins (London): October 1994 - December 1996 Creative Group Head |
The Labour Party Digital Computers Legal & General Sun Alliance Landmark Insurance |
| Full-time self-employed freelance copywriter: January 1997 to present |
Boots Opticians Dickinson & Morris traditional foods Swish Boots Beauty Halls Experian Russell Jones & Walker solicitors - WON PITCH Kitchen Creations - WON PITCH British Cities Marketing Board British Midland Norwich Union Diamond Cable Creda - WON PITCH Sony Centre Nottingham - WON PITCH Qualitas Bathrooms Armitage Shanks Derby City Partnership Nottingham City Council University of Derby South Birmingham College- WON PITCH Dupont Sheffield College - WON PITCH Vauxhall Friends Provident Alliance & Leicester Yuill Homes Stag Furnishings ChildLine Midlands - WON PITCH Jet Petrol Everards Brewery Journey Shoes Vasque American mountain boots - WON PITCH SearsCard - WON PITCH Alex Lawrie Woodland Trust English Heritage United Jewish Israel Appeal BBC Worldwide - WON PITCH Renault Leicester City Football Club Lloyds TSB Norwich City College - WON PITCH Raleigh Center Parcs Sheffield Hallam University Marks & Spencer Financial Services Mercedes-Benz Bonar Floors (Flotex) Siemens Communications East Midlands Development Agency ClinPhone (electronic clinical trials) 3M Healthcare Powergen |
| Agencies freelanced for: |
City: |
| Since January 1997: |
Nottingham: Cross Hill Conwill Sellers Rogers Drakes Jardine Boyden Carmichael-Smith Riley Barkers Major Design Blue Brick Design Green Partnership Like-Minded Solutions Frontier Design Michon Design London: Saatchi & Saatchi Evans Hunt Scott GGT Direct FCB Direct Mediator Marketing Publicis WWAV Rapp Collins Leicester: HTA Big Cheltenham/Bath: DMP Splash Communications Uttoxeter: Brookes & Vernon Sheffield: Paradigm Mansfield: DesignWorks Linney Design Derby: McConnells |