Community Manager at Media Molecule
Brighton, United Kingdom
- Current
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- Community Manager at Media Molecule
- Past
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- Freelance Interactive & Print Designer at Self Employed
- Interactive Designer at Brightwave Ltd
- Interactive Designer at NCsoft Europe Ltd
- Web Designer at Designate
- Freelance Interactive Designer (Self-employed)
- Interactive Designer at Virgin Radio
- Education
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- Staffordshire University
- Worthing Sixth Form College
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Tom Kiss’s Summary
• Highly motivated
• Extremely flexible skill range
• Strong attention to detail
• Expert knowledge of PhotoShop & Flash
• Consistently seeking higher standards
With 10 years of experience through interactive and print projects, I’ve built up an extensive skill range covering both design and development.
Some previous clients & projects include: Aion, Australian Tourist Board, Best Western Hotels, Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Brightwave Interactive, City of Heroes, DJ Meck, Exteel, Family Assurance, Guild Wars, Lineage II, Loaded magazine, Microsoft Windows XP, Miller Genuine Draft, Mousse-T, Music House International Licensing, Nescafe, NME, Nuts magazine, P&O Ferries, PlayNC, Pure Holidays, Selfridges, SunStar Leisure, Transavia.
Tom Kiss’s Specialties:
Brand awareness, UI design, accessibility, Marketing & Community, attention to detail
Tom Kiss’s Experience
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Community Manager
Media Molecule
(Computer Games industry)
April 2009 — Present (4 months)
Working with the talented Media Molecule team to help build and support their incredibly diverse and creative community around their award winning game, LittleBigPlanet.
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Freelance Interactive & Print Designer
Self Employed
(Design industry)
October 2008 — March 2009 (6 months)
Working with a number of companies and clients, freelancing again has given me some valuable experience and broadened my skill range further, designing & building websites and developing user interfaces for Adobe AIR software.
I've worked for Brighton based design studio Yard, with their clients who include So Connected (part of the Selfridges & Co), Luxury Briefing and Blink eyebrow bars. I've also worked at Mosaic, a full service agency, working in-house at their central Brighton based office. Some personal clients include Music House International Licensing Ltd, Pitter Patterns Jewellery, WB Digital and YouNeedABudget.com accountancy software. -
Interactive Designer
Brightwave Ltd
(E-Learning industry)
October 2008 — October 2008 (1 month)
Hired for a 1 month contract, I worked on interactive Flash based e-learning applications for their clients, including Virgin Atlantic and Vodafone.
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Interactive Designer
NCsoft Europe Ltd
(Public Company; Computer Games industry)
April 2005 — September 2008 (3 years 6 months)
Since joining NCsoft Europe as the company's first Designer near its early beginnings, I've gained a tremendous amount of experience.
A key part of the role has been developing and building video game community sites for the company's international MMO titles.
I've worked on all aspects of marketing material, from magazine advertising, clothing, billboard design, point of sale, flash based marketing sites, event giveaway items to viral marketing. I was responsible for the production of nearly all of Tabula Rasa's European marketing material, including the games packaging design.
I produced a large amount of concept designs, style guides and interaction prototypes for the development of NCsoft's digital distribution software.
I was responsible for the design, production and authoring of NCsoft Europe's game launching software, present on retail discs and trial discs.
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Web Designer
Designate
(Privately Held; Marketing and Advertising industry)
April 2004 — March 2005 (1 year)
Working on a range of projects for high profile travel and tourism clients such as Best Western Hotels and P&O Ferries, it was great to work in a busy and productive full service agency.
I learnt some valuable skills at Designate, such as building websites to meet Web & Accessibility standards and working in a .NET development environment. -
Freelance Interactive Designer
Self-employed
(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Design industry)
September 2003 — March 2004 (7 months)
I've completed a number of freelance projects over the years, and during 2003/2004 I had some of my largest jobs.
Clients have included IPC Media (Loaded, NME & Nuts Magazines), Provident Financial, Music House International Licensing Ltd, Brightwave and Free2air Recordings; with work varying from Flash games, microsites and custom built full PHP content management systems. -
Interactive Designer
Virgin Radio
(Public Company; Broadcast Media industry)
July 2002 — August 2003 (1 year 2 months)
I worked as part of the busy in-house new media team, producing microsites for on-air and online advertising campaigns, updating the Virgin Radio website with new content, taking photos of the bands when they were in to record sessions.
Tom Kiss’s Education
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Staffordshire University
1999 — 2002
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Worthing Sixth Form College
A Level , Art, Photography, Biology, Environmental Science , 1997 — 1999
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Tom Kiss’s Contact Settings
Interested In:
- consulting offers
- new ventures
- job inquiries
- expertise requests
- business deals
- reference requests
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