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United Arab Emirates

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

I lead Projects and Teams to deliver target state experiences for enterprises across the whole project life cycle from sale to delivery. Im responsible for communicating and executing lean design processes, working with stake holders and internal teams. My other role is to work with global to create a shared culture across the iX practice, sharing our successes and learnings. I lead internal projects to create a positive team culture.PrototypingUX DevelopmentUI DesignProduct… Show more I lead Projects and Teams to deliver target state experiences for enterprises across the whole project life cycle from sale to delivery. Im responsible for communicating and executing lean design processes, working with stake holders and internal teams. My other role is to work with global to create a shared culture across the iX practice, sharing our successes and learnings. I lead internal projects to create a positive team culture.PrototypingUX DevelopmentUI DesignProduct designDesign thinkingUser journey flowsCreative Strategy Show less

London, United Kingdom

I joined grampy following my move to London. My first role was as a lead front end dev. Soon I started contributing to the design/idea development phases in the business. With a natural ability to think outside the box along with my understanding of how things work I started some personal development to step into a lead UX role within the company. I was selected to continue with the business in an acquisition to IBM MEA. Notable projects include, Yas Island UAE, HSBC Mexico, Keybank… Show more I joined grampy following my move to London. My first role was as a lead front end dev. Soon I started contributing to the design/idea development phases in the business. With a natural ability to think outside the box along with my understanding of how things work I started some personal development to step into a lead UX role within the company. I was selected to continue with the business in an acquisition to IBM MEA. Notable projects include, Yas Island UAE, HSBC Mexico, Keybank USAKey ExperiencePrototypingUX DevelopmentProduct designDesign thinkingUser journey flowsCreative StrategyWordpress template buildContent ManagementSketch/Adobe Suite toolsGrunt/GulpDeveloped front end skills in all areasProject Management Show less

Norwich

Following training and freelance projects, I joined One Agency as a Front-end developer. Responsibilities included delivering best practice responsive code. Continued learning to offer clients modern approaches for optimized and scalable builds. Worked across optimizing websites for the agencies largest clients. Here I gained a huge amount of experience in working within well-structured dev/design teamsKey ExperienceWorking as a team within a studio environmentWorking to… Show more Following training and freelance projects, I joined One Agency as a Front-end developer. Responsibilities included delivering best practice responsive code. Continued learning to offer clients modern approaches for optimized and scalable builds. Worked across optimizing websites for the agencies largest clients. Here I gained a huge amount of experience in working within well-structured dev/design teamsKey ExperienceWorking as a team within a studio environmentWorking to deadlinesWorking within a SVN environmentDeveloped front end skills in all areasWordpress template buildEmail template build Show less

Norfolk

Play Fest, held on the Second bank holiday of the year.My dream was always to run my own Festival, and after years of promoting and organising events/running my own venue I had established contacts and networks to make it happen.Play Fest was going to be a small Festival aiming to host large acts as well as be a platform for unsigned acts to play to a Festival crowd. In our first year we had an attendance of 2000 and had a very successful weekend. We entered Play Fest for the UK… Show more Play Fest, held on the Second bank holiday of the year.My dream was always to run my own Festival, and after years of promoting and organising events/running my own venue I had established contacts and networks to make it happen.Play Fest was going to be a small Festival aiming to host large acts as well as be a platform for unsigned acts to play to a Festival crowd. In our first year we had an attendance of 2000 and had a very successful weekend. We entered Play Fest for the UK Festival Awards held at The Roundhouse in Camden and got shortlisted in the last 3 for the Best New Festival. Our second year we grew the festival hosting larger acts and adding more stages including a Festival within a Festival for children to cater for families. In our second year we had an attendance of 3500. The event ran very well but due to weather issues and a lot of competition we were unable to hit our financial targets and had to fold the business.The Event’s successes drew in a lot of interest from various investors but due to time issues and change of site we were unable to secure any.Duties & Responsibilities - Event PlanningWorking closely with the local councilProcurementRisk ManagementCrowd ManagementLogisticsPromotion/Marketing/Social MediaBudgetingSite DesignArtist LiaisonEntrepreneurshipManagementAbility to delegateDealing with Press – Radio and magazine interviews Show less

Norwich, United Kingdom

I left my job in corporate sales to pursue a self-employed career in running music events in Norwich. Since 2008 I had been organising monthly events in Norwich called Norwich Rocks. The idea of the event was to create a festival experience within a venue in the city. Hosting DJ’s and bands together it was a new concept and soon gained momentum. By 2009 Norwich Rocks was attracting up to 600 and had built a great brand. In 2010 we started to get contacted by other venues, which wanted the… Show more I left my job in corporate sales to pursue a self-employed career in running music events in Norwich. Since 2008 I had been organising monthly events in Norwich called Norwich Rocks. The idea of the event was to create a festival experience within a venue in the city. Hosting DJ’s and bands together it was a new concept and soon gained momentum. By 2009 Norwich Rocks was attracting up to 600 and had built a great brand. In 2010 we started to get contacted by other venues, which wanted the Norwich Rocks brand. At this point Norwich Rocks had weekly and monthly events at 3 different venues. This inspired me and 2 friends to look at purchasing our own bar with a similar theme to the events. In the summer of 2010 we bought a small bar in the city centre and called it Rocks. We set out to create a cool intimate vibe playing host to live music, comedy & sports. We booked large acts to DJ when they were in town on a gig such as The Vaccines, Andy Nicholson (Bass player from arctic monkeys), Gary Powell (Drummer from The Libertines), Edd Sheeren – to name but a few. This really put us on the map in Norwich. After 2 good years we sold the bar to pursue setting up a festival.Duties & Responsibilities -Identifying Acts to pull a crowdPromotionSocial MediaEvent ManagementWorking with local Environmental Officer/LicensingPeople skillsRisk ManagementBar ManagementDelegation Show less

Front End Development

Product Design

Product Management, Design Thinking, User Experience (UX) and User Interface design (UI)

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