~◊ Curriculum Vitae ◊~ Simon Barnett 12 August 1970 ◊ ID 7008125256087

simbasounds@gmail.com ◊ 073 618 6652

37 Falmouth Rd ◊ Observatory ◊ 7945 ◊ Cape Town

RECENT WORK EXPERIENCE

THOROUGHPEDIA - Historical Thoroughbred Racehorse Database Retouching, DTP Finished Art, IT Support, Studio Manager: December 2007 – May 2010

Software Snow Leopard (advanced), Windows 7 (advanced), Linux / Ubuntu (Intermediate), Photoshop, Indesign, Illustrator, Bridge, Picasa, Cooliris / Piclens, LogMeIn / Teamviewer, FilemakerPro

Duties § Scan, repair and re-create modern-looking photographic backgrounds for 5000 historic racehorse photographs dating

back as far as 1920.

§ Research and implement numerous cross-platform solutions to incorporate a Mac DTP workflow into a predominantly Windows environment where the database was held.

§ Update and maintain the studio hardware and software.

Reason for Leaving End of main phase of the project

Reference Jehan Malherbe – Partner (021) 510 1455

RECENT FREELANCE EXPERIENCE Hirt & CARTER - Sportsman’s Warehouse department: signage and brochures DTP: June – November 2007 Reference: Chrissie – Sportsman’s Warehouse +27 (0)21 410 8100

SWITCH DESIGN GROUP - Brand Manual for Parliament, Wellness Warehouse, FIFA 2010 DTP: January – June 2007 Reference: Simon Arenhold, Business Director (021) 421 1784, 082 445 7276

INSPIRATION MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS - Ad Agency  Finished Art for Point of Sale, brochures, packaging: July 2006 – April 2007 Reference: André Steyn (Creative Director), (021) 761 1388, andre@inspiration1.co.za

ONTRACK ADVERTISING - Ad Agency (2 month contract) Finished Art: Beg. November – End December 2006 Reference Christo Wolmarans, Studio Head (021) 851-2878

MEDIA24 - GOAL! - Nigerian version of local Soccer Laduma newspaper. Layout, design, photo retouching - September 2005 – June 2006 Reference Hans-Peter Bakker: +234 803 535 4569 – a 083 448 5413 – n

RELEVANT PAST WORK EXPERIENCE

GILES RIDLEY PHOTOGRAPHY Photo retoucher 2002 – 2007

Duties Stitch photos together into panoramas. Perform extensive retouching for large format (up to billboard) output.

Reference Giles Ridley -(021) 785 1798

MACTRAIN MULTIMEDIA COLLEGE

College offering graphic design diplomas and short multimedia and DTP courses.

Period January 2001 – December 2003

Roles Design head, IT Manager, trainer.

Reference: Lizanne Barnett -Director: 0398 341 863

WILLIAMS LEA FACILITIES MANAGEMENT London-based specialist printing for major international financial institutions

(Ernst & Young, BUPA, Rothschild, SBC Warburg, Salamons, Williams de Bröe, Morgan Stanley)

Period September 1996 to November 1997 and from August 1998 to October 1999.

Roles Mac IT support / Digital Prepress Operator / Typesetter / Trainer

Software Quark XPress, Photoshop, Freehand, Illustrator, Acrobat / Pitstop, Microsoft Word, Powerpoint, Adobe Presswise, Farrukh Imposition Publisher.

Duties: IT Support • Maintain Macintosh systems. Install Software. Install/replace/repair hard disks, CD-ROM drives, processor daughtercards. • Download latest Software and driver versions. • Archive all work onto CD-ROMs.

Duties: Operator • From data supplied, prepare text and artwork for proofing on laser or 3M Rainbow dye sub, or output to film.

Specifically: • Lay up hand-drawn documents, reformat text and prepare client’s files for output.

Retouch and composite scanned images. • Scan reflectives and trannies on ScanView drum scanner. • Plan and set up page impositions in Adobe Presswise and Farrukh Imposition Publisher. • Used the earliest version Adobe Acrobat and Enfocus Pitstop to achieve colour separations from non-prepress

applications such as Microsoft Word or Powerpoint. • Montage separations for output to film.

Duties: Typesetter • Typeset and design corporate stationery.

Duties: Trainer • Prepare a synopsis of the training schedule for top management. • Prepare course notes pertaining to the operations in the digital prepress department. • Train and evaluate all platemakers in all aspects of DTP and digital prepress.

Reason for leaving No longer wished to do shift work.

Reference Bryan Terry, manager: 0171-556 3672

QUALIFICATIONS

SCHOOLING Abbotts College (final year) 1988 Diocesan College (high school) 1985 to 1987 Waldorf School – Constantia (primary school) 1981 - 1984

EXTRA CURRICULA Cape Town Film & Television School (CTFTVS) 1985 to 1987

Awards included: • Best Editing Award for film: ‘Nitescape’ which achieved Gold Seal and Second Place at London International Amateur Film Festival (LIAFF), 1986

TERTIARY EDUCATION Cape Town Film & Television School (CTFTVS) 1989 to 1990 Diploma in Film and Television Production

Awards included: Best Individual End of Year Project 1989 Best Musical Score 1990

MacTrain Multimedia College 1992 – 1994 Diploma in Desktop Publishing and Design

I have taught all aspects of Desktop Publishing up to Diploma level at various institutions since 1994, including: Concept Interactive – Andrew Macklin 021 448 8451 AMAC (Arts and Media Access Centre) – Celestine Doty 021 461 0369 Mactrain College -Lizanne Barnett 021 788 8245 Williams Lea Facilities Management (London) – Bryan Terry 0171 556 3672