Peter Yi
Sydney
Summary
Creative and detail-oriented professional with over 25 years’ experience in graphic and web design, now applying strong communication, problem-solving, and organisational skills in a support work role. Experienced in person-centred care, goal setting, and fostering independence for clients, particularly within the Deaf community. Skilled in clear and effective communication, Auslan, and supporting daily living tasks, learning development, and community participation. Recognised for reliability, clarity, and dedication in helping clients achieve their personal goals, while adapting creative thinking and attention to detail from a long career in design to deliver high-quality, tailored support.
Overview
2026
2026
years of professional experience
Work History
Support worker
Support worker
2022 - Current
- I provide person-centred support to Deaf clients, focusing on communication accessibility, independence, and community inclusion. I assist with daily living tasks, social participation, community access, and working toward personal goals, using Auslan communication to ensure clarity, comfort, and trust. I am passionate about empowering clients to build confidence, strengthen independence, and create meaningful connections in their everyday lives.
- Provide person-centred support for Deaf clients with diverse physical, mental health, and communication needs.
- Assist with daily living tasks including cooking, cleaning, shopping, and household management.
- Support social participation, community access, and engagement in recreational or educational activities.
- Help clients set, work toward, and achieve personal goals to strengthen independence and confidence.
- Use visual, non-verbal, and accessible communication methods to ensure clarity and comfort.
- Empowered clients to achieve greater independence in daily living and community participation.
- Built strong, trusting relationships with Deaf clients, improving communication and engagement.
- Successfully supported clients in achieving personal goals under NDIS or individual support plans.
- Advocated for clients' needs in community, health, and social settings to ensure accessibility and inclusivity.
- Recognised for creating a positive, supportive, and encouraging environment that fosters confidence.
Web Designer
Reed Exhibitions
2014 - 2020
- Joined the business and worked with the marketing teams of various trade show events preparing and designing a range of printed and digital marketing collateral to support the promotion of upcoming events.
- Production of flyers, business cards, posters, registration forms, event booklets and catalogues.
- Arranged and co-ordinated printing checking and approving proofs and colour.
- Created online advertising banners for the various trade shows, exhibitions and events utilising a range of software programs including Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign.
- Assigned to work on major event ThinkGP which was a completely different style of event from others run by Reed with a greater focus on educational programs and content targeting the medical profession. Provided graphic art support in developing educational materials and a range of marketing collateral for the event this included:
- Worked with the event team to complete design work for the online education program using the Articulate program.
- Utilised various formats and files to support the ThinkGP trade shows.
- Created artwork for flyers.
- Created images to embed into the articulate education programs.
- Transposed content from powerpoint manuscripts into the education content.
- File creation and clean up in preparation of lists for the upcoming newsletters and headers.
- Undertook an extensive array of new work in streamlining and defining new methods to enhance user engagement and utilised a forward thinking approach looking at the wider strategic overview and provided strategies to improve or speedup the required timeline which was required to deliver the optimum outcome for the event.
- Maintained a database of the activities from previous years so that these could pre-empt options ahead of other upcoming events.
- Proven expertise in managing major projects and delivering to specific job tasks and projects at the highest design level.
- Expertise in web marketing including banner on the top and product images and a range of different advertisers who were promoting their products on the ThinkGP website.
- Very resilient and excellent creatively.
- Reed Exhibitions is an event organiser, with a portfolio of approximately 500 events in 40 countries including UK, Austria, USA, France, Germany, Brazil, Russia, India, China, Australia, South Africa and the Middle East. Reed Exhibitions, which employs about 4,000 employees, is part of RELX, an information and analytics company.
Graphic Designer
Genesis ED
2009 - 2014
- Only graphic designer for a small web design and printing business.
- Utilised artistic skills to develop creative concepts for the projects and then put these into implementation.
- Clients included Pfizer, and a range of other pharmaceutical and medical businesses.
- For Pfizer account undertook web marketing, development of flyers - (printed and digital), creation of new logos for new products and the on-pack branding.
- Web marketing - created a range of printed material including invitations to events and flyers on products.
- During conferences and events was responsible for the design and production of all marketing collateral material and was responsible for the quality control checking of all material before approving the proofs for print.
- Allocated the briefs from the manager with a detailed brief outlining the priorities and scope of the design and creative work which the client wanted to have completed.
Graphic Designer
Modus
2006 - 2009
- Provided Alfa Romeo car advertising and provided images of the various Alfa Romeo vehicles and created bespoke advertisements from the material to fit the brief.
- Provided for the MacCarroll's automotive dealerships and provided advertisements for both local community newspapers.
- Undertook the layout and formatting for the 100-page Crisco Christmas Hamper catalogue which took 2.5 months work to develop the catalogue from the initial layout to print. This included undertaking deep etching for many of the graphic images.
- Modus was a small graphic design consultancy with a high level of creative scope.
Owner - Graphic Designer
PetHouse Graphic Design
2004 - 2006
- Freelance graphic design, advertising, and web design.
- Managed client relationships including with D-Link and Netgear completing several advertising and design projects for them to brief.
Graphic Designer
Selby on Strategy
1998 - 2004
- Worked on Australian Muscle Car Sales website and created the website design and layout from scratch including the graphic design work on the image and worked alongside the graphic design team.
- Worked on the design of a variety of boxes and packaging including doing the graphics and layout including designing the folds and compete packaging mix.
- Created a billboard advertisement for Software Ag which was located at the Sydney Airport in line with the clients brief and developed a cut through advertisement promoting Software AG.
- Worked on a network internet security product and designed the full-page advertisements for the product which ran in the IT Magazine.
Graphic Designer
Bottom Line Graphics
1993 - 1998
- Worked on a range of advertising projects including work for Nestle which included designing and producing small booklets which were provided internally to staff and was focused on understanding chocolate and how it was made and the upcoming products which were due to be released.
- Produced advertisements which were predominantly print based including brochures, sales flyers.
- Created an emergency design job for an organisation.
- Worked on an emergency design job changing a set of guidelines for an organisation when the government changed the law and this was required to be done overnight with various changes to legislation.
- Approximately 200 pages of very dry and basic information.
Graphic Designer
Safari Advertising
1992 - 1993
- Worked on booklet for NSW triathlon and designed a black and white booklet around the event.
Education
Certificate III - Individual Support - Disability
TAFE Wether Park
Wether Park01.2022
Associate Diploma - Graphic Design
Randwick TAFE
Randwick01.1992
Skills
- Graphic design
- Web design
- Marketing material development
- Quality outcomes delivery
- Software design programs
- Attention to detail
- Creative problem-solving
- Brand positioning
- Printed marketing collateral
- Digital marketing collateral
- Teamwork
- Independent project delivery
- Auslan communication
- Person-centered care planning
- Individualised support delivery
- Goal setting
- Skill building
- Independence support
- Deaf culture awareness
- Linguistic accessibility
- Daily living tasks support
- Learning development
- Community confidence-building
- Community access support
- Clarity in communication
- Reliability in support delivery
References
Available On Request
Hobbies and Interests
Family and Friends
Timeline
Support worker
Support worker
2022 - Current
Web Designer
Reed Exhibitions
2014 - 2020
Graphic Designer
Genesis ED
2009 - 2014
Graphic Designer
Modus
2006 - 2009
Owner - Graphic Designer
PetHouse Graphic Design
2004 - 2006
Graphic Designer
Selby on Strategy
1998 - 2004
Graphic Designer
Bottom Line Graphics
1993 - 1998
Graphic Designer
Safari Advertising
1992 - 1993
Certificate III - Individual Support - Disability
TAFE Wether Park
Associate Diploma - Graphic Design
Randwick TAFE