B2C | Social Tech | AI & ML- Pitched for and awarded grant funding by Newcastle University.- Explored a variety of potential solutions within the targeted problem area over several years, iterated through several of them before settling on the product that best suited my talents whilst aligning with key personal driving factors for founding.- Wrote product specifications and went through ideation processes to refine the concept before moving forward with development.- UI/UX… Show more B2C | Social Tech | AI & ML- Pitched for and awarded grant funding by Newcastle University.- Explored a variety of potential solutions within the targeted problem area over several years, iterated through several of them before settling on the product that best suited my talents whilst aligning with key personal driving factors for founding.- Wrote product specifications and went through ideation processes to refine the concept before moving forward with development.- UI/UX design and prototyping in Figma for the MVP and website.- Developed backend API and data services for the product, deployed using docker with accompanying services provided by AWS.- Built a mobile application with react native and utilised native code for more complex features.- Conducted initial product testing with potential users closely aligned to the ICP.- Wrote a 2 year marketing and customer acquisition strategy that leveraged traditional and guerrilla marketing strategies prioritising organic growth through virality and network effect whilst minimising costs to meet budget constraints.- Produced financial estimates for the first two years of operations inclusive of expansion to overseas markets.- Identified pain points within the chosen area of focus, researched competitors and analysed failings/successes to develop competitive strategies for gaining market share and identify where existing solutions fail to meet customer needs.- Prepared and delivered pitch decks to potential partners.- Performed customer analysis to evolve understanding of the products requirements and further develop the value proposition, as well as identify high value markets and priorities for expansion beyond the UK.- (This one's for five years time) Boosted the global financial and social economies by tackling the root causes of growing social issues, through increasing connectedness across younger populations. Show less

- Worked with SMEs to optimise internal processes with technology, with a focus on minimising costs and ease of use. This involved assessing existing processes from first customer contact to deal close, and identifying opportunities for decreasing labour spend with technology.- Built bespoke internal tooling utilising both code and no-code solutions, integrating with external APIs and software to ensure low maintenance requirements for the client moving forwards.- Created digital and… Show more - Worked with SMEs to optimise internal processes with technology, with a focus on minimising costs and ease of use. This involved assessing existing processes from first customer contact to deal close, and identifying opportunities for decreasing labour spend with technology.- Built bespoke internal tooling utilising both code and no-code solutions, integrating with external APIs and software to ensure low maintenance requirements for the client moving forwards.- Created digital and physical marketing strategies/materials for the client. Show less

Embarc is an events-focused community empowering exceptional future founders. Having been an active member since their launch, I was asked by the founding team to help the CTO in developing the technical side of the product.The CTO's focus was on the customer facing product, mine on the internal tooling and data. After exploring existing solutions and dismayed to find no existing solutions that met our requirements, we set out to create a new platform.We built out a suite of… Show more Embarc is an events-focused community empowering exceptional future founders. Having been an active member since their launch, I was asked by the founding team to help the CTO in developing the technical side of the product.The CTO's focus was on the customer facing product, mine on the internal tooling and data. After exploring existing solutions and dismayed to find no existing solutions that met our requirements, we set out to create a new platform.We built out a suite of tooling for events management, social media, user and community management, and analytics. In doing so we explored how the data was structured and migrated the database to MongoDB. Show less

Awarded a place on the Academy scholar programme to train as a full stack software engineer (1 of 9 speculative spaces from a pool of several hundred candidates).Consistently exceeded the scope of the course, going beyond the provided content and learning more advanced concepts whilst utilising them in projects.Led sessions to teach fellow scholars topics adjacent to the curriculum, as well as help with concepts I had already covered.Received exposure to DevOps practices and… Show more Awarded a place on the Academy scholar programme to train as a full stack software engineer (1 of 9 speculative spaces from a pool of several hundred candidates).Consistently exceeded the scope of the course, going beyond the provided content and learning more advanced concepts whilst utilising them in projects.Led sessions to teach fellow scholars topics adjacent to the curriculum, as well as help with concepts I had already covered.Received exposure to DevOps practices and engineering workflows, alongside their usage on collaborative projects.The programme placed emphasis on leadership skills through training and embracing the attributes of a good collaborator, technical communicator, and taking initiative when opportunities present themselves. This training focused on growth of emotional intelligence, navigating team dynamics, and building cohesion within a team.Adopting an agile work-style and completing team-based problems/projects and leading technical discussions and reviews.Actively received and gave meaningful feedback to develop technically and as a person, with the goal of becoming more conscientious of my role and impact on the team culture. Show less

- Carried out UI/UX design for a comprehensive web overhaul of clients website.- Built a fully responsive bespoke website for desktop, tablet and mobile on behalf of my client from scratch utilising Webflow in combination with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.- Secured my first freelance contract from the first pitch.- Implemented web analytics tracking with Google analytics 4.- Carried out initial SEO (and advanced SEO with a specialist) to take the clients website from not ranking… Show more - Carried out UI/UX design for a comprehensive web overhaul of clients website.- Built a fully responsive bespoke website for desktop, tablet and mobile on behalf of my client from scratch utilising Webflow in combination with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.- Secured my first freelance contract from the first pitch.- Implemented web analytics tracking with Google analytics 4.- Carried out initial SEO (and advanced SEO with a specialist) to take the clients website from not ranking, to ranking >25 and >10 respectively across a variety of high value search terms.- Produced copy writing for the entire website, along with accompanying image content and visual assets in photoshop and illustrator whilst ensuring optimisations for web were carried out.- Implemented semantic HTML and CSS to adhere to accessibility guidelines across all targeted platforms.- Migrated to, and managed the clients domain name system (DNS) on Cloudflare.- Produced marketing materials and assets for the client on digital and paper mediums.- Provided additional services to the client such as making alterations to their CRM (Zoho) and other tech platforms. Show less

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