Evan Stewart
A naturally creative designer with over 6 years of industry experience, predominantly working as a web and UI/UX designer. Also boasting experience in branding, logo design and SEO. Well developed collaborative and interpersonal skills, I’m an enthusiastic and keen team member. Capable written and verbal communication abilities, very comfortable and enjoy being a client facing designer, design briefings and project management. A cheery guy with a genuine love for keeping up with contemporary design trends.
Experience
escreative is the design company I started and contract under. Services cover the full web design and development journey, UIUX, analytics and marketing setup, SEO and site optimisation - Also, graphic design, logo design, branding, print media like brochures and business cards. From humble, freelance beginnings to current ongoing contract work for major aerospace companies such as Aerospace New Zealand, Aerospace Christchurch and Kea Aerospace.
Web & Graphic Designer
escreative / Jan 2016 - Present
Christchurch, NZ
Sales and stock manager for Frucor Suntory in Christchurch, NZ. Managing, ordering and delivering stock to customers in my portfolio. Other duties involve promoting products, signing on and onboarding new customers and businesses. Building repport and keeping good relations with my customers.
Sales Representative
Frucor Suntory / Nov 2018 - Present
Christchurch, NZ
Practiceplus is a SaaS company offering a custom, branded CMS, web design, development, SEO and digital marketing services. My role at Practiceplus was wide ranging, from web and graphic design, UX/UI process, low-to-high fidelity wire-framing, user flows to project management, SEO and web site optimisation, design EDM campaigns. My time at PP was spent upgrading business’s online presence in everyway, providing a platform to successfully and effectively market their brand, always resulting in an increase of online traffic and a surge in business.
Hired as a student to load content into sites and left as a senior designer. I gained a lot of upskilling over my 5 years with Practiceplus.
Senior Web Designer
Practiceplus / Jan 2014 - Apr 2018
Christchurch, NZ
Education
Learning through real industry work - Web design, design theory, UX and UI process, project management, design trends and application. Front-end development sections covered (HTML, CSS, JS) and back-end development sections (PHP, MySQL, .NET). Graduating, proudly with an ‘A’ average and industry experience.
Diploma in Web Development and Design
Vision College / Jan-Dec 2014
Hamilton, NZ
Studying in a range of core design areas over 3 years including: Graphic design, company and product branding, freehand and technical drawing, photography, illustration and animation. As an industry focused course, we also studied how to develop design briefs, best practice to generate ideas, solve design problems and design innovative solutions within communication design environments.
BA in Design Visual Communication
ARA / Jan 2009 - 2011
Christchurch, NZ