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Bristol, England, GB

Bath, England, United Kingdom

Storm is a digital technology agency. We develop websites, web apps and platforms for fledgling startups, flourishing scale-ups and restless corporate innovators.

Bristol, England, United Kingdom

Gravitywell is a venture studio that partners with startups, scaleups and corporates to bring concepts to life through design, technology and entrepreneurial expertise.I led all commercial activity for the business as a member of the senior leadership team. I also maintained work as a strategic design practitioner as the organisational lead for discovery.

Bristol, England, United Kingdom

Sage Earth (Spherics) is a carbon accounting platform that helps businesses measure, mitigate and manage their carbon footprint. The platform specialises in enabling the automated measurement of scope 3 emissions for some of the most complex, high-emitting sectors. During my time at Spherics, we raised £1.25 million in equity financing from angel investors.

Remote

A piece of discovery research for HM Land Registry for Futuregov (now TPX Impact) as part of a two-year programme to review and update the UK's geospatial data services around housing and planning.

Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

Potato is part of the AKQA network in the WPP group. They design, develop and launch purposeful and effective digital products. Potato work with partners who want to deliver products people will love, including Google, Mozilla, Royal Bank of Scotland, Cambridge Audio and the BBC.Key achievements:- Drove studio and group-level alignment with WPP's core.

Bristol, United Kingdom

cxpartners is one of the UK's leading design innovation consultancies - with a rich heritage of thought-leadership on the international design scene. I worked across the discipline of UX on consultancy projects in varied sectors including: public sector (GDS), retail, education, and big tech. I focused mainly on delivering user research, strategic.

New Delhi Area, India

Quicksand Design Studio is a leading design research and innovation consultancy in India, recognised globally for their expertise in user-centred innovations for emerging markets. Highlights included:- Coca Cola: ethnography across India to identify opportunities for a new sparkling drinks category to appeal to 'ethnic' taste palettes. - Domino's Pizza: an.

London, United Kingdom

Supporting the delivery of General Assembly's part time and full time UX Design courses. Drawing on my experiences between journalism, entrepreneurship and interaction design, this role enabled me to consolidate my professional development as a design thinker.

London, United Kingdom

Freelance UX design (including interaction design, information architecture and media consultancy work) between 2014 and the present. Whilst transitioning from video journalism to UX design, I completed a number of short-term contracts with various agencies in London, including:- IA and taxonomy work for Nuffield Health with the digital agency, Friday.- A.

London, United Kingdom

Beginning immediately after graduation, I worked my way up the traditional hierarchy of media (predominantly TV) production from Junior Researcher to Assistant Producer. I began working for the independent production company, Wall to Wall, on factual productions for the BBC, Channel 4 and National Geographic. I subsequently worked on some factual.

London, United Kingdom

NewsFixed was an online platform connecting freelance contributors in the information industries with commissioners of both legacy, new media and non-traditional outlets. The platform facilitated better standards of access to hard-to-cover subjects and geographies.I was an early stage team-member of this startup, which worked with the BBC, CNN and Vice.

Canterbury, United Kingdom

Civicboom was a web platform which enabled large news organisations to more effectively obtain, distribute and manage user generated content from source using smartphones. Our achievements included:- Achieved several rounds of angel funding,- Negotiated proposals with senior figures at Thompson Reuters and Trinity Mirror. - Accepted on the first semester.

Ba (Hons), English Language And Literature

Activities and Societies: Sub-editor of the 'Arts' section at Leeds University Student Newspaper - 'Leeds Student'

Pg Dip, Journalism (Television Pathway)

Formerly known as the London College of Printing, LCC is a college of the University of the Arts London. Course and training completed.

A-Levels + Gcses, English, Economics And Geography

Activities and Societies: Sports - Rugby 1st XV & Rowing 1st VIII