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London, Gb

London, England, United Kingdom

▪️Lead Designer on Strategic Projects: Served as the primary product designer and subject matter expert (SME) on key initiatives, including the Asset Management Product, which successfully onboarded new clients within the first month of launch.▪️UI prototypes: Creating full end-to-end prototypes suitable for dev-hand off and sale demo purposes.▪️UX research & discovery: Led discovery and feedback sessions with clients and SMEs, ensuring research credibility and validating product concepts before implementation.▪️User Acceptance Testing (UAT): Conducted UAT to validate designs and features, achieving a 65% increase in the success metric and a 59% reduction in errors during testing. This work can be found in my portfolio project, ‘investor invite flow’.▪️Cross-functional Collaboration: Collaborated closely with Product Managers and Engineering Managers in squad trios to meet deliverables and address pain points across multiple projects.▪️Design Team Leadership: Initiated weekly peer review sessions to foster collaboration among designers, facilitating discussions on cross-squad dependencies and improving overall design quality.▪️Quality Assurance: Extended responsibilities to include QA testing, ensuring products function correctly and meet all deliverables before going live.▪️Design System Development: Contributed to the company’s design system by designing responsive components and coordinating implementation with the Lead Front-End. This work led to the integration of design system tickets into regular sprint cycles.

London, England, United Kingdom

▪️Multi-lingual sites: Developed multi-lingual sites, ensuring accurate translations and functionality. I later introduced a process to help streamline this process to get the sites built more efficiently.▪️UI prototypes: Created Figma prototypes for client presentations, enhancing visual communication and reducing wasted effort.▪️Conversion rates: Analysed site conversion rates, suggesting and implementing improvements to help charities meet fundraising targets. ▪️Stakeholder management: Worked with key stakeholders to ensure projects met client requirements and adhered to accessibility and usability standards.▪️Basic HTML & CSS: Using my basic understanding of HTML & CSS to add customisations to the sites.

London, England, United Kingdom

▪️Brand guidelines: Created and implemented the brand’s product guidelines; this was something that was identified during the early stages of the contract period, as it was missing.▪️Primary UI designer: Worked as the sole UI designer for Mood’s v1 product that was later used for the business launch and securing investment. ▪️Agile working environments: Working within an agile environment with developers, Product Managers and other key stakeholders in the businesses.

London, England, United Kingdom

▪️Communication: Frequently communicating with clients on their projects from initial enquiry through to installation. ▪️CRM management: Looking at CRM systems, and creating a system that can be best applied to the company to ensure a streamlined workflow. ▪️CAD: Using the CAD packages to create a drawing template which can help streamline the process of getting drawings to get out to clients. ▪️Client meetings: Taking enquiry meetings, talking through clients their up and coming project as well as delivering the sales pitch.

London, United Kingdom

▪️Project management: I have worked on numerous projects both internationally and nationally, and of a variety of scales - bespoke through to batch production furniture runs.▪️Client management: I have worked with clients including, Deans at Cathedrals as well as large architecture practices. ▪️International projects: I worked on a project in Lower Manhattan, New York.▪️Cross-functional teams: was responsible for overseeing a team of third-party installers, who were installing the fitted furniture within the spaces, which were across several floors, all with different aesthetics and challenges, coordinating with suppliers and manufacturers.▪️Management: I coordinated a small team of designers to ensure that every aspect of the project has been well considered and thought through, as well as staying in line with the client's intent.▪️Furniture design: I designed one of the few one-off bespoke items for one of the floors of this project. ▪️Tender quotes: I have been responsible for overseeing the tender quotes for particular projects and working out how we could reduce the costs to satisfy the client's budget.

London, United Kingdom

I was working as a freelance project designer on a project that was based in Lower Manhattan. Working as part of the team. This freelance position turned into a full-time Project Coordinator role.

Nottingham/ London, Uk

Over a course of a month, I was apart of a research program which is hosted by the Design Council. The theme for this years Design Academy is surrounding transform ageing. With our brief directed towards ‘remaining physically active’.

London, United Kingdom

Highlight at this particular company, was redesigning the refurbishment of St. Machar's Cathedral Church in Aberdeen, this included all the pews, and choir furniture.

New Malden, Greater London, United Kingdom

Redesigning the company's website, using the platform WIX, was a role that was developed based on having a personal interest in web development.

Data Driven Product Management Simulator

This course focused on enhancing my Product Management understanding especially around how data can be used to enhance decisions.

Ux And Ui Design, Ux & Ui Design

- Furthering my understanding around the full design of a project, and the involved from research, through to high fidelity prototypes.

Bachelor’S Degree, Furniture And Product Design, First

Activities and Societies: Swimming & Waterpolo Society | Design Society | Student ambassador program

Project Management Principles And Practices Specialisation, Project Management, Pass

The UCI course is teaching recognised content from the PMBOK Guide. The four modules which were all passed with a >80%: - Initiating.

Alevels, Product Design, Ict, Psychology, A2 & As Level Grades.

Activities and Societies: Competed on the Surrey Satro Team | Product Design Subject Captain | House Captain