L e n s h a w

Name: Stephen Haw

DOB: 05.11.1986

Location: St Helens

Nationality: British

Likes:

• Design
• Football
• Video Editing
• Photography
• Guiness
• Travelling
• Gaming
• Movies
• Music
• Subway

Dislikes:

• Bad manners
• Will Ferrell
• Waking up after mid-day
• Daylight Savings
• Fiat Puntos

Software used:

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Dreamweaver

Adobe InDesign

Adobe Imageready

Work history:

Tesco Express
2006 - Present
Customer Services

Tesco's expectations are pretty simple; Serve the customers, keep the shelves stocked & clean. It's a simple job and it's an easy way to get me by. Depending on the day I can either be stocking shelves, reducing items / stock checking or serving petrol and goods on a till.

I am currently in the middle of my team leader training which will earn me the right to more responsibilities and even run a shift of my own.

Some of my roles at Tesco include:

Stocking shelves from a routine plan

Controlling stock levels using PDA systems

Reducing stock prices accordingly

Serving customers on a touch screen till

Counting cash from the till and recording them on paper

Hawtech Design Services
2004 - Present
Homebased Secretary

When my dad is away on business I take control of the incoming calls and emails. The business itself is a design service offering a wide range of autoCAD / CAD factors. I'm currently training to use higher grades of this software and don't feel ready to take on jobs that are on my dad's level.

Cloud Design
2006 - 2007
Graphic Designer

I was offered this job to aid my experience in the wonderful world of design. I discovered what it's like to work in the environment my desired career entails and that included:

Speaking with clients on the phone

Designing various pieces by specifications & preferences

E-mail - both incoming and outgoing

Meeting deadlines

Seeing the entire process of start to finish with clientele

The overall experience gave me a great insight to a working office environment.

Cybernetrix IGC
2004 - 2006
Computer Administrator

Cybernetrix was my first real step in the right direction. With the career I want being computer based this job gave me some great experience when it came to working with the public and repairing / maintaining systems.

The cafe attracted a lot of the younger generation for the gaming aspect and it was a great opportunity to familiarise myself with the surrounding community. They respected the cafe and treated it with upmost respect. You could say it was their home away from home.

My roles in the cafe included the following:

Greeting, serving & "looking after" the customers

Maintaining the systems & servers using a wide range of software

Cleaning / organising the office & public area

Responding to phone calls and e-mails

Designing posters & information sheets advertising necessary events & timetables

Burger King
2003 - 2004
Food preparation / Sales Assistant

This job was basically my high school / early college income. With no qualifications or experience it was a great chance to get myself rolling in the wonderful world of manual labour.

Working jobs like these keep you humble, because you work damn hard. I worked from a rota and my shifts varied week by week. Some shifts forced me to stay to the early hours of the morning when I had school the next day. Looking back it was a great experience and I made a good few friends along the way.

My roles included the following:

Preparing a range of food in the kitchen

Feeding meat into the broiler

Constant cleaning and washing of hands

Serving customers on the front tills & drive-thru

Maintaining the dining area

Brief history:

When I first got my hands on a copy of Photoshop it was 7.0 and it cost me £15. Someone was selling a copy on a forum I went to at the time and I'd heard good things about it, So I snapped it up. From there I went on to design generic crap with the default filters, text effects and basic tools, I was hooked! After that I moved onto websiting. My first ever website (glassjaw.8m.com) was a freewebs site and it was extremely popular in high school.

After that I had glass-jaw.co.uk which was my first official domain. The design was awful and the content was even worse, but again it got hits. I remember hosting competition on it were viewers had to find letters within an image to form an anaogram, that was then was formed into a winning word. I had a winner and they received their prize, that was the end of that site.

After that I had a bunch of sites that got absolutely nowhere. I just randomly bought domains and hosted crappy sites with no reason for a viewer to see or even think about going back to. Glass-jaw.co.uk was then revised into a site dedicated to RMXP resources (A 2D game engine with endless capabilities). This site grew popular amongst rmxp.net (at the time), then rmxp.org (which is the current domain for the same site). After a while I grew tired of spriting and game graphics and moved more into my photography and video. This then caused Glass-jaw to become void as people who visited expected to see resources for their video games. This is when I decided to buy Lenshaw.com.

Lenshaw has had MANY different layouts (as expected from a designers point of view) but the content has always remained the same. I think I've finally found the type of site I've been looking for after all these years.