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About Doug

I am passionate about developing my creative digital skills. I aim to utilise these design solutions in visual media, marketing, architectural and website design.

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Douglas Major

1997 (age 25)

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Work Experience

July 2022

(Current position)

Communication Specialist at RDA Architects, London.

  • Head of Marketing and PR. Design websites and produce advertising material.

  • Filming, producing, and editing footage of Passivhaus Architecture.

June 2022

Creative at The Academy PR, Clerkenwell, London.

  • A fortnight internship as a Creative, working directly for two directors in an office of 50.

  • Proposed and planned the advertising campaigns for Call of Duty and Morrisons.

  • Four ideas I pitched were eventually adopted by the clients.

July 2021

Brookes Architects, Richmond, London.

  • I was responsible for designing several projects, focusing on improving my Revit skills.

  • Voted employee of the month for designing a 12-flat complex in Rose Hill, London.

July 2018

Baart Harries Newall Architects, Shrewsbury, Shropshire

  • Designed plans for Hereford Cathedral School boarding house.

June 2018

Paul Keogh Architects, Dublin

  • I was in a large team drawing the final plans for College Green Redevelopment.

August 2015

Seniorman Design Limited, Hong Kong

  • Participated in a sky-scraper development in Zhongshan, South China.

  • Designed a main entrance using CAD and edited the company’s website.

July 2015

AHR Architecture, Shrewsbury, Shropshire

  • Attended a course where I was tasked to design a house on the banks of the River Severn.

Education

2016 - 2020

School of Architecture, Oxford Brookes University

Bachelor of Arts with Upper Second Class Honours in Architectural Design.

2011 - 2016

Shrewsbury School, Shrewsbury

A-Levels: Art, Physics, Mathematics.

GCSE: Mathematics, Physics, Art, Design, Geography, Biology, Chemistry, English, French.

Extra-Curricular Activities

Design

2017 

2015 

Design ambitious personalised projects using 3D CAD and Adobe Creative Suite.
-Organised a collaborative exhibition at Bear Steps Art Gallery, Shrewsbury.
-Designed bags, marketing material and the company logo for Majors Outfitters.

since 2002

Drumming                       

2019

2016

A band member playing gigs, organising the recording of albums and editing music videos.
-Plans are going ahead to record an Album in Abbey Road Studio, London.
-Performed in three bands at Funk in the Forest Festival, Welshpool, Powys.
-Performed in a school production at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival receiving a five-star review.

2023

Rowing

2012-2016

Head of Rowing, Severn Hill, Shrewsbury School.
-Stroke for the First Boat of the RSSBC, an award-winning team at several national regattas.

Charity Fund Raising

2016

Volunteered with the Nasio Trust in Kisumu, Kenya and successfully summited Mt Kilimanjaro, Tanzania, raising £3,000 for the orphanage.

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