Ethan Bakare
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Ethan Bakare

Visual Designer in London

Passionate about AI powered design

2 years ago

About

I enjoy helping companies tell their brand stories through buttery smooth visuals and narratives that stick. When i'm not designing I’m extending my 950 day streak on duolingo learning Japanese

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Education

2019 — 2020
London

AI SKILL SUMMARY
Technical Writing

  • Wrote critical analysis reviews on the state of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs).

Data Preparation & Visualisation

  • Executed visualisation of models performance via matplotlib, numpy & seaborn
  • Cleaned and wrangled twitter dataset for textual analysis course project.

Using programming languages

  • Implemented basic computer vision tasks like segmentation, object detection 
and classification using MATLAB and OpenCV.
  • Built simple machine learning models to solve classification and predictions based tasks.

Projects

2020

Easy Data Augmentation for Hate Speech Classification Developed a deep learning model which used text based data augmentation methods to greatly improve performance on an imbalanced hate speech dataset.

Work Experience

2022 — 2023
Brand Designer (Contract) at Lean Technology
London

A fintech startup building the infrastructure for payments in the MENA region

• Aided outreach efforts of the sales & commercial team by designing and templatising 15 high level pitch decks.

• Collaboratively developed a visual representation of the company culture by crafting the brand values document.

• Developed marketing collateral for the product team to effectively inform and educate B2B clients on the company's offerings whilst addressing their pain points.

• Collaborated cross-functionally with sales, marketing & product to ensure brand consistency across touchpoints.

• Raised lead generation traffic to website by 15% through digital content created for marketing campaigns

2020 — 2022
Visual Designer at Freelancing

Working independently with SME’s and tech startups.

• Liaised closely with clients to outline vision, pitch art direction & execute designs which met desired objectives.

• Facilitated brand discovery workshops to shape strategy & achieve buy-in from key decision makers.

• Designed and developed logos, visual identities & collateral whilst closely collaborating with marketing heads.

• Performed and gathered insights from qualitative UX research to improve UI design

• Reviewed brand design work created created by junior designers.

2018 — 2019
Design Associate at Frontier Network (Start-up Incubator)
London

Frontier network is an accelerator and co-working space for blockchain, AI and emerging tech startups.

• Pitched effective brand strategy proposals to company stakeholders and clients, sharing insights.

• Managed creation & development of visual identities for incubated brands ensuring visual consistency.

• Designed high level presentation decks to support in-house fintech & blockchain start-ups raising capital.

• Effectively translated subject matter on web3 to solid design content for promotional materials and sales decks.

• Designed & maintained three marketing websites used for creating brand awareness with consumers & investors.

• Generated leads by interacting with prospective corporate customers during official events.

2017 — 2018
Visual Designer at Stakeholder Democracy Network
London

SDN is a not-for-profit organisation supporting people affected by extractives industry and weak governance in Africa

• Collaboratively engaged in UI/UX development for website landing page & lowered visitor drop off rate by 11%.

• Improved the speed of social media content creation, by initiating the use of Canva, onboarding marketing team and providing predesigned templates which increased their autonomy and flexibility.

• Increased consistent visual brand representation across mediums by designing detailed company style guide.

• Designed print media publications and reports from concept through completion using Indesign.

• Created graphic and motion-graphic collateral for digital marketing campaigns, web landing pages, etcetera.

• Engaged in brand governance by onboarding five team members on the use of the fonts via the styleguide.

• Handled liaising process with the printing press vendors ensuring colours, bleed and quality met print standards.

2017 — 2017
Visual Designer at Freelance

Freelancing and working remotely via Upwork

• Conceptualised and designed social media content (Facebook and twitter) for a bank’s marketing campaign which ....obtained 750,000 app downloads, whilst working under marketing leadership.

• Gained insights into creative brief development, client job interpretation, creating quotes (using Excel).

• Developed fluency in the use of Adobe suite software, Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop.

• Enhanced presentation skills, through pitching created brand concepts and visual collateral.

• Improved proficiency in effective visual & written communication by developing client proposals & creative briefs.

Certifications

2022
Marketing Strategy (Brand & Product) from Reforge

I gained an insightful understanding of the impact brand marketing can have on product development and growth. Furthermore, I learnt how to utilise brand marketing frameworks and systems to shape business strategy and drive growth