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Chicago, Illinois, United States

OCC is a Systemically Important Financial Market Utility. My role is to lead the strategy and direction of product design during a massive re-platforming, while managing a team of designers.- Founded a collaborative design studio practice with an open, constructive and nimble team dynamic to streamline the problem solving process and cross pollination of ideas.- Improved the agile project management process to facilitate more effective iteration and lean cross functional collaboration.- Co-founded the ACCESS employee network group tasked with raising the standard of accessibility and inclusive design across the organization.- Oversaw prototyping of high-impact projects, ensuring quality standards are met and guidelines are followed.- Managed hiring, career development, and mentorship fostering growth and a high-performance culture.

- Led continuous improvement of design system and expansion into new patterns and platforms.- Regularly presented design system progress and benefits to the larger organization, gaining buy-in and an expectation of design quality and consistency.- Created icon system and loading mechanism to expand upon and better implement third party libraries.- Defined information architecture library grouping commonly used patterns.- Organized design system documentation for simpler maintenance and cross platform availability.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

- Led a cross-functional working group of designers and engineers, driving complex conversations across products and organizations to advocate for design excellence, shared patterns and components while leveraging the work of others across the company.- Dramatically lowered cost and time required for a major rebrand thanks to considerate planning of a multi platform, multi brand design system.- Influenced stakeholders across functions to gain support for design strategies.Shipped many product features across web, iOS and Android.

Sydney, Australia

- Served as lead designer and product manager for Vocal.media through audience growth to ~1M daily users.- Helped the team Atlassian ship the first Design System for Forge UI.- Contributed to internal design system development.

Sydney, Australia

- Served as principal designer for iOS and Android apps.- Ran multiple design sprints to prototype new features for parking and dining experiences.

San Francisco

- Produced pilot robotics programme for wayfinding, physical data capture and same-day delivery experiments.- Developed bluetooth based indoor navigation prototypes.- Drove adoption of transformative technology such as React.js and WebGL.- Created browser extensions used to automate cumbersome and complicated business processes.

Sydney, Australia

- Developed custom web based mapping & wayfinding engine.- Led front end engineering for touchscreen kiosks for London, LA and World Trade Center locations.

Sydney

- Day-to-day operations, client liaison & negotiation, project scoping and requirements.- Project management of multiple teams across time zones and disciplines.- Advising UX & design, information architecture & wireframing, creative briefs, persona & task analysis and communication strategy.- Development of best-practice guidelines for collaboration and production.- Designed and developed UI for Vodafone engineering progressive web app.- Provided strategy and UI for NBNCo Document Management System.- Provided strategy and UI for AMP Document Management System.

Brisbane, Oxford, Sydney

- Full service digital production consultancy.- Working with local and international clients on strategy, scope, design and project management of websites, web and mobile applications.- Web, mobile and social media application production & development. - User experience strategy & user interface design. - Strategic consulting in digital communications.- Developed groundbreaking system for automating promotional campaigns on Facebook. - Licensed to major advertising agencies such as Publicis and M&C Saatchi.

Brisbane, Australia

- Responsible for the user experience and style of sites & applications, display ads, social networking.- Performed as frontend lead, guiding development of applications from data visualisation to event management.

Brisbane

Conception & design of print advertising, point of sale, retail design, outdoor advertising for local, national and international clients & campaigns including Nintendo, Sega, JB-Hifi, Vivendi, MultiTrode, EB-Games.

Art Direction

Bachelor Of Fine Arts (Bfa), Human Computer Interaction

Majored in Interaction Design & Advertising