MD & freelance creative director, digital business consultant, creative graphic designer, business architect & author.
Bournemouth, United Kingdom
- Current
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- Freelance Business Advisor at The Arts University College Bournemouth
- Technical Creative Director & MD at E-creation
- Past
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- Marketing Director at Sightlines
- Project Manager, Designer & Coder at Freehand
- Design & Programming at Navigator Multimedia
- Education
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- Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College
- University of Kent
- American Community School, Hillingdon
- Connections
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- Industry
- Information Technology and Services
- Websites
Jan-Erik Paul’s Summary
I run E-creation, a successful, award-winning digital design & marketing consultancy based in Bournemouth. We help businesses to communication more effectively by providing innovation & creativity in design together with intelligent functionality for all forms of digital projects.
I provide a consultancy service for corporate companies or creative agencies looking for a smart creative problem solver who can deliver concepts, structure and strategy for applications that cleverly fuse design, coding & business objectives. For those businesses requiring a more complete service, E-creation has a small, UK-based team of designers and developers, taking on projects with a value up to £100,000.
With a strong understanding of the business areas surrounding building digital solutions, such as branding, search engine optimisation, database integration and cross-media implementation, E-creation provides architecture, infrastructure, management and delivery of e-business and digital marketing projects.
Clients include: IBM, Unisys, City & Guilds, BP, Cisco, 3Com, London Underground, Royal Bank of Scotland, Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, Lastminute.com, the NHS, Fluency & London Underground.
Jan-Erik Paul’s Specialties:
branding and identity, graphic design, creative direction, multimedia design, multimedia development, website design, website development, digital marketing, marketing strategy, marketing products, marketing consultancy, communications strategy, communications products, SEO, search engine optimisation, online marketing, digital business optimisation.
Jan-Erik Paul’s Experience
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Freelance Business Advisor
The Arts University College Bournemouth
(Information Technology and Services industry)
2006 — Present (4 years )
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Technical Creative Director & MD
E-creation
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 1999 — Present (11 years 1 month)
I am Technical Creative Director and MD. I oversea overall strategy of E-creation and provide active hands-on creative direction and technical guidance for all of our projects.
E-creation is an award-winning agency combining creativity, technical knowledge & marketing experience to generate astonishing results for businesses. We develop a wide range of marketing & communications products as well as offering strategic advice on digital marketing. We design & develop:
Brochures & printed materials
Multimedia CD-ROMs & ROM-cards
Websites & e-commerce sites
Sales presentations & exhibition materials
Intranet & content management systems
After a period of hyper growth, I have been reducing the headcount at E-creation in order to focus on quality of life outside of work. As a result, I employ 4 people on a freelance basis (who are all absolute, total experts in their relative fields) enabling me to spend 4 months per year out of the country. -
Marketing Director
Sightlines
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 1998 — January 1999 (1 year 1 month)
A broad range of responsibilities including:
- senior project management
- marketing strategy
- sales & business development -
Project Manager, Designer & Coder
Freehand
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Graphic Design industry)
June 1997 — January 1998 (8 months)
Worked intially as a programmer before taking on responsibility for architecture, project management, design and coding.
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Design & Programming
Navigator Multimedia
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Design industry)
June 1995 — June 1997 (2 years 1 month)
I worked at Navigator Multimedia doing the design & programming of interactive products for exhibitions. I was then responsible for the setup and management of all multimedia elements on the exhibition stands. This took me across the world, including: Washington, New Orleans, Las Vegas, Singapore, Sydney, Melbourne, Copenhagen, Auckland & Berlin.
Jan-Erik Paul’s Education
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Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College
MBA , Business , 1999 — 1999
Did my first year of my MBA here and then due to work pressures (setting up E-creation), I had to defer my second year. Am hoping to complete this at some point.
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University of Kent
BA(hons) , Communications & Image Studies , 1991 — 1994
- Activities and Societies:
- President of Windsurfing Society,
Honorary Greek
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American Community School, Hillingdon
1988 — 1991
Additional Information
Jan-Erik Paul’s Websites:
Jan-Erik Paul’s Interests:
snowboarding, kiteboarding, windsurfing, gardens (when they are sunny), business, linguistics, smart people, the behaivor of water when under the effect of wind, france, finland, having enough time off to enjoy what life has to offer
Jan-Erik Paul’s Honors:
Thames Valley Business of the Year (TVCOC)
Top 10 Growth Design Agency - (Design Week)
Top 100 UK Design Agency - (Design Week)
