Christopher Thomas Email & Phone Number

Swansea, Gb

United Kingdom

• Secured £1.8m seed funding and led social impact efforts, resulting in multiple awards• Co-designed, built, and successfully launched Sortyourfuture.com as Chief Design & Product Officer via a closely managed innovation process• 1.5m sessions (800k users) from across the UK through strong marketing and design strategies and implementation - achieving a £0.07cpcwww.sortyourfuture.com | A Pre-Linkedin discovery platform for careers, courses, & jobs | A Spotify-style onboarding process and a Pinterest-like UX | Why? Because you can't search for the things you don't know exist

• Solving complex business problems by synthesising established marketing and design processes.• Designed and delivered a growth-mindset based education system for the primary school system - recognised by the UN as good practice.• Award-winning technology projects used to educate, engage, and add value to people's lives.Do what you loveLove what you doMake your own luckwww.wearelucky.org

LEARNING THROUGH NATURE: Wildlife Friends is a tried and tested learning system that combines nature and narrative to support children aged 2-7 in learning the skills and knowledge they need for life.

• Mentoring teachers taking part in the RSA / Teachers Guild #connectparents collaboration to redesign the parent teacher conference (parent's evening). • Working with some fantastic teachers, applying design thinking principles to rethink how parents, learners and teachers can engage to support the learning process.

San Francisco, California, United States

We make tutoring affordable, accessible & powerful with AI technology so that every student unlocks their full potential.

• Social Asking (formerly Qutee) supports the gaming community by sharing real stories, from real gamers - https://www.socialasking.com/social-asking-examples/

Swansea - Carmarthen - Lampeter

• Designed an innovative education system focused on fostering growth mindsets and empowering students to plan for their futures.• Pioneered opportunities for personal development and the commercialisation of intellectual property within the curriculum.• Fostered a culture of creativity and entrepreneurship among students, laying the foundation for their future success.

University Of Wales Trinity Saint David

Lecturer, Faculty of Art and Design, Swansea School of Industrial Design.• Provided instruction to both undergraduate and postgraduate students in various design areas, including product, automotive, and architectural stained glass• Encouraged the adoption of human-centred design and design-thinking principles across multiple disciplines• Facilitated the protection of student intellectual property rights and supported enterprise development efforts

University Of Wales Trinity Saint David

• An EU funded project that encouraged businesses to adopt human-centred design and design-thinking principles to impact their product innovation processes

London, United Kingdom

Conducted design research on high-frequency crimes, such as bag and bicycle theft, resulting in productive partnerships with the MET Police, TFL and London businesses.Contributed to multiple award-winning research projects at prestigious institution, including featured exhibitions at MOMA New York.INDEX awards - shortlisted

London, United Kingdom

Freelance design services included concept generation, visualisation, model making, exhibitions design and build for companies such as United Biscuits, Disney, Thomas Heatherwick Studio and Engine Group's service design projects for Orange.

Ba(Hons), Product Design

Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design

Post Graduate Diploma, Ma Product Design And Innovation, Distinction