The following was a press release created by the folks at The Pond a great organization who represent my skills in New Zealand.

UK creative Richard McCoy, a man who was building websites at a time when most of us were still coming to grips with dot matrix printers, has joined The Pond as a senior web design director.

Since 1995 he’s built up a huge amount of digital experience working as a software engineer and senior web designer across a range of industries. In saying that, he has a definite bent towards social marketing.

As a freelance designer, he’s fought for basic human rights alongside Liberty Human Rights and Penguin Publishing, after the British Government proposed a bill to extend the number of days a detainee could be held without charge.

And he recently managed a team of designers and developers at Speakout, a Brisbane charity that promotes world change for the better.

“I love to instill honesty and humanity into my life and work, having poured my heart and soul into pretty much everything online – from banking systems to online communities, artist portfolios to online shopping stores and political awareness campaigns.”

Richard has freelanced at the best web shops around – ones like AKQA in London. And he’s developed some deep sites like ‘Live for the outdoors’ for LBi, an agency widely regarded as the UK’s no.1 marketing and technology agency. (Its Chief Creative, Chris Clarke, kicked off the Cannes Lions International Festival Seminar programme this year so they must know something!)

The Fine Arts graduate still contracts to agencies in the UK from his new home on Waiheke, when he’s not crusading for sustainable living.

If you have a project in mind, or want to expand your digital offering, talk to Clinton. From user interface design and build to project management, art direction and creative team management – Richard does the lot!