Job title updated to reflect specific areas of the team,

Alongside my formal role in Digital Design, I have adopted the responsibility of Digital Accessibility at Skipton Building Society, driving and embedding accessibility across both colleague and customer facing channels- Digital Accessibility Champions Network Lead & Founder- Engaged with colleagues across the business - from Delivery teams right through SLT, ExCo, to the group CEO - to raises awareness of digital accessibility- Design of Accessibility Approach - a strategy to embed accessibility best practices throughout the software development process.- Design of formal training paths for all software developers, designers, and testers.- Design and delivery of informal training for colleagues on topics including keyboard navigation and screen reader use, as well as Inclusive PowerPoint presentation sessions.- Design, development and delivery of Skipton’s Empathy Lab, which has been experienced by over 500 colleagues, and showcased externally to peers.- Represented Skipton at Financial Services industry conferences to discuss the importance of accessibility within the sector.- Working with third party accessibility partners to arrange audits- Conducted internal accessibility reviews, using both automated tools and manual techniques.- Conducted user testing with disabled users- Supported developers and designers on HTML/ARIA best practice.- Providing consultancy and guidance for change- Engaged - and challenged - third party suppliers to ensure supplied services meet accessibility standards.- Championed accessibility in branding work, ensuring that key accessibility considerations and testing were included in scope.

An evolution of my role as Digital Design Manager to more of an SME role. Accountable for the look and feel of the Society’s digital platforms, driving a standards-based approach through patterns libraries and design systems, and engaging with key stakeholders to optimise UI across all platforms. - Driving insight-led user-centric design- Leading production of Society’s first design system- Working with stakeholders to understand problems- Design of Prototyping Kit for user testing

Founding member of Skipton’s Digital Team, managing the Design Team across multiple websites, secure transactional platforms, and the customer mobile app.- Design Lead across all digital platforms- Designing and developing online brand guidelines- Line management responsibilities for other Digital Designers

UI/UX Design for UK's fourth largest Building Society, responsible for digital concepts and front-end development across multiple subsidiary websites. Responsible for day-to-day maintenance of customer facing websites across 6 subsidiaries, as well as the following milestones:- Design and development of website and HTML email templates for the societies b2b proposition, Skipton Intermediaries, and later migration to a .Net CMS. - Redesign of international banking subsidiary and advisory subsidiary websites.- Lead developer on project to deliver a responsive, content managed Society website. Managing Software Developers, leading front-end build, and liaising with stakeholders and third party agencies to optimise UI/UX.

Internationally published photographer available for commission. Specialising in live music photography, and equally adept at portrait, still life, editorial & corporate photography.Featured in many magazines and websites, including the The Fly, BBC, Clash, The Guardian, The Independent, The Sun and The Observer.

providing voluntary consultancy for a local charity who support disabled people, their carers and families

Web designer for northern low fare airline and package holiday subsidiary.Responsible for maintenance of websites for both jet2.com and jet2holidays.com, providing bespoke solutions to on-the-fly business requests and BAU changes. Also create dynamic flash material, print material for press, and html emails.In the final year of my time at Jet2, I took a key role within the Jet2holidays brand. I was responsible for producing multichannel creatives for campaigns and promotions. I was also responsible for redesigning the main company homepage, re-launching the companies city breaks proposition and designing the summer 2012 campaign pages. The final project I was involved in at Jet2holidays was the launch of the companies new upmarket holiday proposition - Indulgent Escapes. I took a key role in this project from concept through to implementation, taking full responsibility for the online channel of the project. Working closely with product, revenue, development and marketing teams, I designed the branding and website for the proposition, as well as building the site. The project was delivered on time, to rave reviews from both colleagues and customers via usability testing.

Responsible for managing digital & print marketing campaigns for UK’s #1 Suzuki Car & 4x4 dealer - design of bespoke signage, print and email marketing material to promote events and offers at 6 dealerships along the Pennine corridor.As well as marketing material, I was also responsible for designing the livery and apparel for the company motorsport teams.

As part of the integration of Bradford & Bingley and Abbey I designed, built and maintained a stand-alone website to help publicise the Abbey savings products available in Bradford & Bingley branches. The website - which was fully XHTML and CSS compliant - was initially built as a short term measure to redirect existing Bradford & Bingley customers to Abbey Branches, but it soon became a major online sales tool for Abbey - mainly because of the simplicity of the site and it's ease of use. As part of my role at Abbey, I was contracted out to work on some email marketing campaigns for sister company Santander Card. This involved me working on several brands including Asda, Debenhams, Paypal, Mothercare and River Island. My hard work & dedication led to me being crowned the “Online Champion” of 2008.

I worked within the eBusiness team at the forefront of the online sales channel, to maintain the company’s position as UK #1 Financial Services Website. I was instrumental for the maintenance of website content, optimising copy & meta-data for SEO and accessibility, production of pages using XHTML, ASP.NET and CSS, producing graphics & flash optimised for the web, and ensuring the site constantly fell well within the FSA guidelines. I was also responsible for amending templates within an ASP.NET based content management system (RedDot).