Helium is an independent design consultancy based here in Melbourne. We are a small team with extensive experience helping create and manage some of Australia’s most loved and trusted brands – large and small.We partner with businesses to help build on their brand story, generate brand preference and create business advantage.You can find our website at https://www.heliumdesign.com.au

Founded and grew my own design agency, Six Foot Seven as sole Director creating my own products, services and IP and developing my business purpose and client base to work with fast growing and high achieving SMEs.Led multiple client design projects on a daily basis consistently delivering work to the highest of standards while achieving, and often exceeding, deadlines.Successfully managed the many hats of entrepreneurship, leading with the creative and applying the technical to build my business and independence as a consultant, experiencing a sustained period of significant personal and professional growth.Embedded myself as a trusted and valued partner to SMEs spanning the construction, financial services, healthcare, property and telecommunications industries, applying my customer centric approach, refined communication and stakeholder management skills.Designed high quality print and digital publications for clients enabling them to achieve key business outcomes: white papers, brochures, how-to guides, interactive PDFs, websites, social media and display ad marketing campaigns, event booth designs, posters, podcast banners and promotional material.Proactively grew my business and passion embedding illustration as an additional key service offering to my business by learning and refining my creative skills and completing multiple illustration courses.Highly proficient in Adobe InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator. Proficient in Adobe Premiere and Adobe XD. Experience with Adobe After Effects.Adaptable in my service offering and ways of working, collaborating closely with my clients based on their unique needs and enabling them to succeed by complementing their strengths and talents.

Headed the Digital Strategy and Design service at Apricot Consulting growing the service offering to be a fundamental part of multiple client projects across the Asia-Pacific region.Crafted a brand, identity, website and visual collateral for the Chamberlain Foundation, which helped them raise over $100,000 for Lifeline and Griefline.Built branding, visual and digital assets for the inaugural CEO Sleepout Taiwan playing an influential role in ensuring the event raised NT$929,406 for The Salvation Army in Taiwan.Created brand and visual assets for key leadership development initiatives for the University of Tasmania Information Technology Services helping the team become one of the top performing departments in the university.Formed strong collaborative relationships with clients in the higher education, corporate, and not-for-profit organisations including University of Tasmania, The Salvation Army, North Melbourne Football Club (The Huddle) and AFL Umpires Association helping them achieve key business objectives.Designed three key consulting reports for The Salvation Army, highlighting key business improvement strategies.

Spearheaded scalability improvements of Page Up’s production environment by devising, testing and implementing 20 distinct software solutions which enabled the migration of the production environment to Amazon Web Services (AWS).Key member of a cross-functional agile software development team building business critical software for a number of ASX 200 companies, including.Reduced production code build time by 85% providing quicker feedback on code quality to developers. Improved software deployment process increasing service availability by reducing deployment time by 50%.Led 2 two-day highly collaborative, engaging and motivational Hackathon onsite for 40 staff working on 10 projects, with 50% of the products went into production.Devised an automated Agile Wall for support team, reducing time to solve client issues, and increasing global visibility of support cases across the business.

Sponsored by Jenny Barbour & Associates on Business (Long Stay) Visa (subclass 457) contracting as a Test Analyst to Avanteos.Exposure to complex financial systems, as well as navigating the nuances of working as a contractor.Collaborated with other contractors, software developers and key stakeholders across several projects to create high quality and robust solutions.

Cultivated my strengths of teamwork and collaboration by building high quality software that integrated seamlessly within the wider ecosystem my colleagues and I were designing.Established automated load and stress tests that increased testing efficiency and improved product quality.Fostered a strong collaborative culture with software developers by expertly providing detailed and constructive feedback. Together we delivered a suite of high quality products to FTSE listed companies.HRM Software Ltd became Cezanne Software Ltd, now Cezanne HR, as a direct result of a company merger in 2006.