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Edinburgh, Scotland, Gb

Edinburgh, Scotland, Gb

Amsterdam, North Holland, Nl

• Develop and validate strategy, vision and business models for new products • Conduct customer development and market research • Create user stories and acceptance criteria • Working with in-house and remote, cross functional development teams.• Product lead for the roll-out of a number of new products including POS integrations with Uber Eats and Just Eat, a payment messenger bot with Facebook and a payment app with Verifone. • Product lead for a number of B2C hospitality apps, including the GBK app. • Working with agile and kanban methodologies.

Amsterdam, North Holland, Nl

• Created HR function from scratch including performance management, employee induction and salary review processes. • Member of the company’s Senior Management Team.• Designed and ran a companywide event in Lithuania, in which we defined the company purpose and values.• Designed and led company’s recruitment processes, growing team from 20 to 45 people. Roles recruited include Mobile Developers, Software Engineers, and Senior Management positions.• Implemented an employee coaching program.• Ran a companywide needs analysis, enabling every employee to have individual learning plans.

Woolloomooloo, Nsw, Au

Responsible for the education lifecycle of the organisations Sales Advisors. • Redesigned and implemented a 5-day induction program for 20+ new employees.• Conducted a company wide needs analysis in order to create a new education cycle for sales floor.• Created new sales coaching and call review frameworks.• Created a new employee / sales tracking database.• Contributed to an 11% increase in sales results for the second quarter of 2014.• Awarded with passion award for the month of May due to my drive to improve the company.

New York, Ny, Us

Part of an executive team that managed a $2.5 million budget and led 1,500 people in 34 local branches to deliver 700+ internship opportunities within Fortune 500 companies, NGOs, and educational institutions. • Created and implemented the organisations first Train the Trainer seminars. Training 50+ people at a total of 7 events throughout the year. • Designed 14 conferences for audiences of 200 - 400 delegates.• Achieved growth of 30% for applications for our membership and leadership programs across the US in universities such as Cornell, Yale and Northwestern due to the introduction of a competency-based recruitment model. • Implemented a new leadership education cycle branded LEAD through conferences, local training, and e-learning platforms.

Montreal, Quebec, Ca

It was my role to assist hundreds of UK students who had signed up to one of our exchange programs to find and then prepare for an international internship. • Increased our internship matching rate by 23% from the previous year. • Signed key country partnerships with AIESEC Colombia and AIESEC Brazil whilst attending an international conference in Santiago, Chile. • Designed 7 international preparation conferences for audiences of 20 - 200 delegates which included training on applying for internships and cultural preparation.

I taught over 200 Chinese students aged 16 to 24 English as a Foreign language. I created a 2 month curriculum and delivered 20 different lessons to 8 classes.

Msc, Global Politics (Research)

Bsc, Economics And Politics

A Levels: It, Economics, History, Leisure Studies, As Levels: Government And Politics, Business Studies, Media Studies

Gcses: Across 10 Subject Areas Including Mathematics And English