Ireland

Diploma

Level 9 Certificate

BA HONS

BTEC Diploma

Mari Therese McCallion

Owner & Creative Director

Understanding factors that lead to a motivated team - recognition, communication and more.

Keeping team members motivated

Understand the process of training, motivating and directing your team members.

Managing people

How to create a positive workplace culture that drives collaboration and productivity?

Fostering a good team culture

Steps to building and maintaining a strong, cohesive and effective team.

Building an effective team

Learn the tips to successfully manage a team in a remote environment.

Managing a remote team

Making remote and globally distributed teams work for you and your needs.

Working remotely

Learn essential burnout prevention techniques and replenish physical and emotional energy.

Managing burnout

Talk to people who have learned to manage their imposter syndrome.

Dealing with imposter syndrome

Strategies for maximizing your design internship or co-op program.

Getting the most out of my internship

Tips for transitioning into a new role or company.

Changing roles

How to successfully prepare and position yourself for a job promotion?

How to get promoted

How to ask for a promotion and negotiate for salary raise?

Negotiating a job offer

How to think about design career paths and what progression looks like for designers?

Design career path

Get actionable feedback on your resume or portfolio.

Resume and portfolio review

Practice HR, technical and behavioural interviews with mentors.

Practice mock interviews

Talk to people who've broken into the tech industry and learn their stories.

Breaking into tech

Learn the best ways to answer technical interview questions with frameworks

Acing technical interview questions

How to set up the team for success by defining and measuring team's performance.

Choosing metrics and team goals

Best practices for running productive design critiques.

Running effective design critiques

Methods of prototyping and solution validation. When to use which kind of prototype (eg. Webflow, Notion, etc)

Prototyping methods and tips

Manage team expectations and get the most out of your meetings.

Running effective meetings

Learn how to properly present your work and share ideas and opinions.

Presenting your work with impact

How to work with team members with different skill sets but towards a common goal?

Working cross-functionally

Methods and models of exploring, deciding and delivering design.

Building a design process

Managing being the only designer at your company and working with non-designers.

Being the only designer

Explore different generative and evaluative research techniques. User research synthesis and presentation.

Conducting good user research

Ways and resources to improve your design skills.

Improving design skills

Navigating the working relationship with PM's and engineers as a designer.

Working with product and engineering

How to create personas, and leverage them in design.

Creating and leveraging user personas

Ways to provide constructive feedback to team members.

Giving effective feedback

How to conduct interviews, what to ask, and how to analyze your results? (eg. user interview)

Conducting effective customer interviews

Providing design support to not-for-profit femLens. 

femLENS works with local community centres, libraries, activist groups and NGOs providing documentary photography workshops to women and girls from diverse cultural and economic backgrounds, organising photo exhibitions and publishing books and magazines.

Creative Manager working in a multi-disciplined in-house Creative team which comprises of graphic design, motion graphics, video, photography and document production. A design thinker with a user centered approach to problems and solutions.

- Diploma in UX Design
- Re-brand of our in-house creative team using Design Thinking methods
- Lead the creative team on key, strategic initiatives and campaigns
- EY brand consulting
- Delivering and facilitating Creative Discovery sessions
- Line management

Achievements:
- Created a new format for taking client briefs to great success
- Participant on Acceler@EY, a programme for accelerated personal development
- Post Grad Certificate in Design Thinking (B+)
- Creative Direction and design of the 2019 Graduate Recruitment Campaign
- Accepted the winners trophy for Marketing Campaign of the Year at GradIreland Awards

Additional responsibilities:
- Leading collaborative creative briefs
- Delegating work to other designers
- Project management
- Career coaching
- Budget planning with function lead
- Team skills development
- Multi-level interviewing
- Organising team culture initiatives

Achievements:
- Implemented an internal portrait service
- Brought EY Entrepreneur of the Year (EOY) design work in-house which had major cost
savings
- Lead the creative direction of EOY and worked with other designers and multi-disciplined
vendors to support their demanding schedule and varied events
- Received an EY Star Award for this and the innovation I brought to the project

Additional responsibilities:
- Project management
- Career coaching
- Work flow management
- On boarding new designers
- Assisting/advising the team manager where required

Independently designed and print managed three regional magazines - social, business and wedding. Concurrently designed for other sections of the media group; The Little Island Business Association and The Ireland Consular Corp and The Cork Polish Consulate.

Additional responsibilities:
- Content development for social and wedding publications in conjunction with the Editor and Sub-Editor
- Project management of all publications
- Communication updates with each department across as aspects of the publications (sales, editorial, accounts, publisher)

As a graphic designer for RSVP Magazine I gained experience in all aspects of the magazine from page layout, advertising and print production. I worked as part of a multi-facetted team responsible for this monthly publication.

My duties included processing and developing wedding and studio portraits using Aperture and Photoshop, designing layouts for magazine styled albums and compiling traditional albums. I prooved to be a valuable second shooter at weddings when required.

Additional responsibilities: Scheduling appointments, customer feedback, customer care and managing cash transactions.

Art Link is a community based Arts Organisation in Buncrana, Co. Donegal. I facilitated classes in photography, web design and art. I was responsible for both the class preparation and teaching, which were aimed at youth groups and young children.

Freelance photographer for studio and lifestyle portraits, commercial, food and drink photography and school photography. My photographs were published in several niche magazines both nationally and locally.

Experience in brand identity, infographics, brochures and exhibition stands.

I joined Warp Ten Design as a graduate. I worked on large corporate and not-for-profit clients and took design briefs from concept to finish for Corporate ID, Direct Mail, Advertising, Magazines, Retail Marketing, Annual Reports, Corporate Brochures, Hospitality, Web Design and B2B Tenders. 

Additional responsibilities: Project management, media buying, quotations, client liaison and onboarding new staff.

This work placement role was arranged through my university. My main responsibilities were to storyboard e-learning sequences in conjunction with a Subject Matter Expert, animate sequences using Flash and export for online use.

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