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Tim Guy Cromar

Creative Technician

Creative Technician

Technical Creative

Professional Profile

DIGITAL HEAD | ANALOGUE HEART

Creative technician drawing on thirty years' professional experience in the design, film, and music industries.

Inspired by the Quiet Power message of author Susan Cain, Tim is currently developing educational resources and initiatives that help individuals, organisations, and businesses recognise personality type as being fundamental in creating a self benchmark – the solid foundation upon which dependable life and career decisions can be built.

Personality Profile

INTJ

Self powered and contained. Trusts a balance of unconscious perception with cautious observation. Solutions communicated and executed with detail, patience, and good humour. Holds the world to the same high standards expected of self.

Energy Source – Introvert/Extrovert
Information Gathering – Intuition/Sensing
Decision Making – Thinking/Feeling
World View – Judging/Perceiving

Experience

Solid professional experience gained over 30 years: in the film industry as a client contact, and camera-prep technician at Panavision UK, a web/ux designer at London agency Fat Beehive, and as a professional musician and LEA instrumental teacher.

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2015 - Present

Voiceover

Freelance Services

Voiceover, narration, audio editing and mastering services for a diverse client list. Once turned down a job that required re-voicing Chinese state 'information' videos into English!

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2012 - Present

Creative & Technical

Freelance Services

Creative and technical services including graphic & web design. Client sectors span construction & manufacture, education, fashion, and art.

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2007 - 2012

Web & UX Designer

Fat Beehive

Responsible for web & print design using Adobe Ai, Id, Ps, HTML, CSS & JS. Proud to have designed, developed, and led the company's first in-house user-experience (UX) service, putting evidence-driven decisions based on real user insights at the heart of the design process.

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1998 - 2007

Creative Director

Neil Cunningham

Design and management of photographic, print, and web output for London fashion designer & photographer including branding, photographic & video shoots, design and direction of London Fashion Week catwalk show. Designed and deployed colour-managed workflow requiring colour-critical matching of still images to video online usage.

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1994 - 2002

Professional Musician & LEA instrumental teacher

Haringey, and Barking & Dagenham borough Music Services

Honoured to have designed and delivered the first dedicated bass-guitar instrumental tuition syllabus for KS3 & 4 in five schools, and two LEAs. Ofsted commended for workshop-level teaching. Gigging and recording musician with a wide variety of ensembles. Memorable: album session recording to 24-track tape at the legendary Wessex Sound Studio – where Johnny Rotten threw up into the Bösendorfer grand piano, and Freddie Mercury tracked the famous We Will Rock You stomps on the drum riser.

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1990 - 2000

Film camera prep technician

Panavision UK

Production and camera crew liaison; test and preparation of film cameras, lenses, and grip equipment packages for this leading global movie-equipment rental facility. From 6:00am phone calls dispensing soothing balm to the frayed nerves of stressed film production PAs assuring them of an accurate and complete kit list – to stepping hot off a flight, couriering straight into the hands of a waiting focus-puller in urgent need of the right lens for that closing shot.

Taster Reels

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V/O Taster

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Bass Taster

Contact

Location

Oxford

YouTube

@timbytheriver