Charlie Gower

Current

• Service Designer at Fjord
• User experience Consultant and Social Networking consultant at Whitel label UK

Past

• Planner at Fair
• Creative at D.U.B. (Digital User Behaviours)
• Music Consultant for Trends and Technology at Record-Play

• Concept designer at Fleming Media
• Trends Researcher, Idea Generator, Global Social Network Manager at Sense Worldwide (Self-employed)
• Freelance Idea Generator at Fifteen20
• Event Director at Evolve Events
• Project Manager at White Label

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Charlie Gower’s Summary

I have been involved in creative production of some description on and offline for most of my working life. Directing and producing television, short films, music, art, live events and online based projects for public and private consumption. Designing experiences that are useful, usable and delightful.

Charlie Gower’s Specialties:

Innovation and ideation
Digital service design
Arts, culture and technology trends
Digital user behaviour trends and niches
User interaction

Charlie Gower’s Experience

• Service Designer

  Fjord

  (Design industry)

  April 2008 — Present (1 year 4 months)

  Running service design projects for the likes of Nokia, Orange and the BBC

• User experience Consultant and Social Networking consultant

  Whitel label UK

  (Marketing and Advertising industry)

  February 2008 — Present (1 year 6 months)

  Working on a private, invite only social network, set up by a large brand

• Planner

  Fair

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)

  August 2007 — April 2008 (9 months)

  A company that focuses on fair and ethical working practices.
  Worked on various clients including Nike C.S.R division.

• Creative

  D.U.B. (Digital User Behaviours)

  (Design industry)

  September 2007 — April 2008 (8 months)

  Clients including Boxer Martin and the Design Council

• Music Consultant for Trends and Technology

  Record-Play

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Music industry)

  March 2007 — December 2007 (10 months)

  Music consulting and digital music trends for Adidas and Heineken

• Concept designer

  Fleming Media

  (Privately Held; Investment Management industry)

  July 2007 — October 2007 (4 months)

  Contracted (by this VC fund) to create online concepts across many fields. These could then be worked up, built and potentially sold or begin to dominate distinct marketing territories online.

• Trends Researcher, Idea Generator, Global Social Network Manager

  Sense Worldwide (Self-employed)

  (Self-Employed; 11-50 employees; Market Research industry)

  May 2003 — July 2007 (4 years 3 months)

  In my position with Sense Worldwide I had several roles. I wrote market trend reports for various private and corporate clients highlighting potential strategic marketing possibilities. I was mainly focusing on the softer factors of human engagement and interaction, understanding what would engage people and how. I also managed their global creative social network, designing events and engaging projects for creatives around the world to participate in. I curated art exhibitions in London and Amsterdam and in 2003 co-created noWax, the digital DJing phenomenon. I wrote a weekly noWax digital music newsletter, which went out to over 2500 subscribers.
  
  Clients: MTV, BBC, Playstation, Reuters, Diageo, Nokia, Nickleodeon, Turner Entertainment, ITV, Discovery and Nike

• Freelance Idea Generator

  Fifteen20

  (Media Production industry)

  2002 — 2004 (2 years)

  Fifteen:20 employed me on a freelance basis to work on a variety of projects generating ideas for the clients of Fifteen:20 and Research International.

• Event Director

  Evolve Events

  (Events Services industry)

  2000 — May 2003 (3 years)

  I organised the complete running of offsite events for private and corporate clients, controlling all elements of production such as catering, set design, music, lighting and themes. Clients included Carat, emap, BBJ, Landor, Pentagram, Merrill Lynch, IBM, M&C Saatchi. I was working in the UK and France.

• Project Manager

  White Label

  (Marketing and Advertising industry)

  2002 — 2002 (less than a year)

  Working freelance managing projects for White Label, including coordinating the event for the launch of the X-Box in Ireland and guerilla PR activity for CGEY.

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• My Blog

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