Kainos PLC

Kainos PLC

Sopra Steria is an international IT consultancy with clients ranging across Local and Regional Government, Healthcare, Financial sector and Commercial sectors. Position: UX Managing Consultant• Managed multiple teams of UX designers and UI developers.• Mentored junior designers.• Working on bids and responses for upcoming projects.• Lead designer on enterprise software systems.• Creating UX strategies for projects.• Facilitated workshops for stakeholders and users.• Performing user research and analysis.• Developing user journeys and screen flows.• Rapid prototyping.• Creating style guides and component libraries.• Performed design critiques.• Presented to stakeholders and users.Position: Senior UX Consultant • Senior designer on enterprise software systems.• Senior designer on proof of concept projects.• Performed heuristic reviews of current systems.• Ownership of graduate program for UX department.• Facilitated workshops.• Performing user research and analysis.• Visual and concept designs.• Usability testing.• Presented on internal and external stakeholders.Key achievements• Developed design principles and processes for the team.• Received a service of excellence award for the work I did in managing the UX department and working on a large commercial project.• Championed and developed cross team communication and collaboration including Monday morning calls across projects, show and tell and collaboration sessions, and mentoring across the team.• Championed consistency, scalability and modularity when creating our design solutions.• Worked with the UI developers to create a UI toolkit that incorporated a style guide and component library into every project that we work on.• Worked on a UX kit that allowed the team of UX consultants to deliver consistent methods across multiple projects.

Storm ID is a digital transformation consultancy based in Edinburgh. Their clients include government, healthcare and commercial clients.  Position: Digital designer • Workshop facilitation• Content strategy• Wireframing• Visual design• Front end development• Mobile app designKey achievements• Championed the idea of a content first design process and the importance of developing a content strategy with clients for web projects.• Created a content strategy guide for clients so they could have an in house reference point for creating their web content.• Assisted front end developers in creating a Gulp based automated build system. • Ran collaborative workshops with clients to create user journeys based on previously created personas.• Presenting clients with an iterative design process using a combination of wireframes and style tiles so that layout and visual design could work in tandem.

Gecko New Media is a digital specialist agency that provide mobile and web design and development. Their clients include national television, property and e-commerce clients. • Discovery meetings• Wireframing• Visual design• Front end development• Stakeholder presentations• End to end project deliveryKey achievements• Championed the approach of responsive web design, by the time I had left the company it had become a part of the standard design and development process for web projects.• First created and used style tiles as a method of presenting visual design ideas. These were used alongside wireframes to quickly iterate on visual design styles.• Encouraged the design team to create their own HTML templates for the CMS, giving the designers more control over the final outcome, and reducing the developer’s workload per project.• Encouraged the use of web font services instead of Cufon on web projects.

Freelance web design and front end development.

Spent a year of professional placement working as part of a digital team on large projects with international clients.