Work

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From Ireland and residing in Toronto, David is a multi award winning Senior Designer; specilasing in User Interface Design. After graduating with a Honours Degree in 2006, he worked for award winning consumer portal bonkers.ie from 2009 to May 2014. Bringing with him the experience he had gained working in the price comparison marketplace for Xelector, providing white label comparison and marketing solutions for Comparethemarket, Tesco Online Services, Moneysupermaket and The Guardian/Observer newspaper group.

In 2006 he took his first step joining Continental Promotions Group, which provided him with real world experience in marketing, design & web development, he worked on projects for Apple, Canon and Nikon during his time there.

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May

2014

May 2014 Moved to Toronto to start a new exciting journey

March 2014 A small agile and dedicated team enable bonkers.ie to reach over 120,000 unique user per month

November

2013

November 2013 Irish Web Awards 2013
Winner Grand Prix: Best Website in Ireland
Winner Best Financial Services Website
Winner Best Practice in Technology

November 2013 bonkers.ie redesign launched, built with bootstrap and mobile first in mind

March 2013 Digital Media Awards
Winner Best Financial Services Website - "Exemplary execution of the price comparison concept in an Irish context. The site's results are extraordinary given the size of the target market." - Judging Panel

November

2012

November 2012 Irish Web Awards
Winner Best Financial Services Website

March 2012 Designed, developed and launched broadbandspeedtest.ie, which enables the user to check the real speed they are getting from their service provider and then switch using bonkers.ie

November

2011

November 2011 Winner Eircom Spiders 2011
Best Financial Services Website - "This is an excellent website as not only does this allow you to plug in your own use of gas and electricity to see which of the tariffs are best suited to you. You can also compare prices for Broadband, Savings Account and Credit Cards" - Judging Panel

November

2009

November 2009 Joined Bonkers Money Limited (bonkers.ie) as Senior Designer

September 2009 New Xelector website wireframed, prototyped and developed

August

2009

March 2009 New print ads produced for the Guardian & Observer newspapers in order to align with their new style guide

January 2009 Designed & developed white label solutions for Tesco Personal Finance, Argos & Utilities Today

November 2008 Rebranded, redesigned and relaunched the Unravelit.com website

September

2008

March 2008 Designed monthly ads for The Guardian and Observer newspapers which pushed traffic through the call centre

December 2007 Overhauled the design of Xelector white label comparison engines & launched comparison products for The Guardian & Observer

November

2007

September 2007 Joined Xelector as Web & Graphic Designer

July 2007 Designed Cashback promotions site & created communications for BT Cashback Promotion

May

2007

May 2007 Designed Canon Europe Cashback microsite

March 2007 Designed registration & fulfillment website for a Nikon cashback campaign

January 2007 Created communications and designed registration & fulfillment website for Apple Europe

October

2006

October 2006 Joined Continental Promotions Group as Web & Graphic Designer

May

2006

May, 2006 Graduated with B.A Hons Design in Digital Media from Letterkenny Institute of Technology

May

2004

May, 2004 Graduated with Diploma in Communications & Multimedia from Dundalk Institute of Technology

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