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Melbourne, Vic, Au

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

As Head of Strategy, I'm responsible for developing and leading Spark Green + Yoke's evolving human-centred design, consumer research and brand experience capability. As a skilled design thinker, strategist, creative facilitator, and design mentor possessing corporate and agency experience, I help design teams and clients navigate and negotiate successful outcomes amongst the often competing forces of business ambitions, advocacy for customer rights or user experience and overall project profitability.

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Melbourne, Australia

Established over a decade ago, Yoke has grown from a graphic design studio into a fully independent, integrated creative agency. With client partners from a diverse range of verticals and industries, including Government, arts and culture, FMCG, retail, and not-for-profit, we’ve produced work that delivers results from brand positioning, brand strategy, visual identity, and national campaigns through to design rollout, digital strategy and content creation for businesses at all stages of maturity - both online and off. Yoke remains a digital leader with an award-winning team of designers, developers, and producers specializing in UX and UI, responsive web development, EDMs, site optimization overhauls all the way through to complex web applications, custom App builds and development of full eCommerce sites. Our range of in-house expertise across multiple disciplines lets us approach each project, brief, campaign, or brand challenge with clarity and confidence. We communicate without barriers or hierarchy and get to the heart of the problem – whether it’s a rebrand, launch campaign, digital strategy or anything in between.

Melbourne, Australia

Melbourne, Australia

Melbourne, Australia

Proud to be part of the WPP AUNZ Wellbeing Ambassador program.

Melbourne, Australia

Sydney, Australia

Client Service Lead for all Grocery, Non-grocery, Health & Beauty and General Merchandise categories. A specialist in new brand creation, I partner with internal Woolworths internal marketing, brand and consumer experience teams to develop, launch and grow their Own-brand retail portfolio. Expert in brand development and management, consumer experience, design strategy, retail/channel marketing and integrated marketing strategy. Strong commercialization, financial management and delivery experience. Reporting directly to GM. Manager to a four, full-time client service team and member of the Marque Senior Leadership team.

Greater New York City Area

Founding member of the Studio Strategy Group within Johnson & Johnson’s in-house Global Strategic Design Office (GSDO), a strategic human-centred design, consumer and patient insights studio established and constructed from the ground up by Chief Design Officer, Christopher Hacker in 2006. As part of senior studio management for this high volume 80+ person creative studio, I lead a team of six responsible for embedding core systems, processes and strategic organisational operations that tackled recruitment, budget tracking and spend allocation, reporting and metrics, culture improvement, facilities, supplier relations, procurement liaison with corporate J&J, training and facilitation, data security and legal trademarking. Ensured timely delivery of all projects to internal clients and led all outside suppliers, freelance design and advertising agency relationships ensuring strategic goals and business objectives were being met. Reported to Chief Design Officer> Specialist in global and emerging market consumer health/FMCG category brand management, design research methodologies and design strategy > Partnered with internal and regional marketing teams to develop tiered consumer insights and strategic design programs to reach incremental sales and volume targets.> Responsible for managing and tracking the combined studio's annual $20.5M operational and project budget including end of year filing and accruals.> Revised the internal design workflow, finance and resource systems in the Los Angeles design studio avoiding a $1.2M overspend> For over three years, worked closely with a newly formed Medical Device and Diagnostic design team embedding HCD practices and user-centred design methodologies (ethnographic probe kits, co-design, journey mapping, digital prototyping) into corporate marketing teams to improve the patient experience across Diabetes (Animas), Vision (Acuvue) and Innovation Product Design (R&D)

New York, Ny

Head of project and client relationship management for the NY satellite design studio. Responsible for creating growth opportunities and revenue streams with existing clients as well as new business development. Reported directly to Tank Partners in Cambridge, MA. Clients: Cindy Crawford, Hulu.com, Boars Head Brand, Harvard Medical, Cole Haan, Mt. Sinai Medical, Bergmeyer Architects

Greater Boston Area

Lead client engagement director for this mid-size brand, consumer research and product design studio. Clients: Ansell, iRobot, D’Addario Guitars, Marine Polymer Technologies, Quantum Data Protection

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Managed day-to day account service responsibilities for the Mid-Atlantic Nissan Automotive region with a focus on 17 spot markets.Client: Nissan Motors North America

B.S. College Of Communication, Mass Communications

Activities and Societies: Liberal Arts Concentration in History

Hs, College Prep

Summer Residential Program, Visual Arts, Winner, Visual Arts Award 1993

Activities and Societies: The Governor’s School for Humanities and Visual and Performing Arts exists to: Create an experience that.