Hello, I’m a Product Designer. I bring a love for Colour, Branding, Illustration, UX and UI to create captivating and user-friendly experiences.

Senior Product Designer - April 28th -Present

As a Senior Product Designer at Edgefolio, I bring a wealth of experience and expertise in crafting innovative and user-centric solutions. Leading the design initiatives, I have successfully contributed to the evolution of Edgefolio's FundPlatform, with a focus on enhancing user experience and visual aesthetics.

My role involves collaborating cross-functionally, translating complex ideas into intuitive designs, and overseeing the implementation of user interfaces that streamline the user journey. Through a combination of strategic thinking and hands-on design, I have played a pivotal role in elevating the overall design standards of Edgefolio's products, ensuring they not only meet but exceed user expectations.

Design Consultant, July 2022 – May 2023 (10 months)

Melbourne, Australia

My key responsibilities were as follows:

1. Delivering the scope of work agreed with the Company and the Groupʼs clients, whilst establishing and maintaining relationships with clients. Working with Partners and Managers to scope and win new work, whilst continuously working to enhance my knowledge and expertise, keeping up with industry trends and being generally knowledgeable about best practice methods within my skill set.

Producing the following work outputs:

• Consulting project deliverables and advice as required

• Proposing deliverables, including proposed solution description and approach as required

• Assisting the Partner and Management team during the quoting process to determine work tasks and effort relating to their own role in the project

• Conducting discussions with key customer users and business representatives to explore high-level requirements

• Analysing and define high-level business and user requirements

• Conducting reviews and evaluations of existing applications, processes and solutions, and make recommendations for improvements.

Senior Product Designer, Aug 2017 – June 2022 (4 yrs 10 months)

Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK

I was responsible for designing Partnerize's core solutions and features. Working closely with product managers, data scientists, developers, and product marketers to identify our customers’ biggest challenges’ and to plan, execute and deliver successful, smooth solutions.

Working for Partnerize for 5 years has taught me to embrace the unknown with curiosity and have a desire to build a deep and empathetic understanding of our users’ needs. As a Designer, I have had the luxury of developing my skills in solving complex and intimate problems. I now feel empowered to make decisions, take ownership of my work, and collaborate to define the product and team’s vision, goals, and processes.

Throughout my time I have worked closely with Product, Engineering, and UX Research to help drive product strategy and design simple engaging experiences.

I worked on the end-to-end user journey and all aspects of design execution from ideation, prototyping, user testing, and final production.

UX/UI designer - Jan 2016 - Aug 2017 · 1 yr 8 mos -

Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK

I worked at Double concentrate for a year and 8 months. Doing both graphic design and then latterly UX/UI design.

• I produced from start to finish the graphic design and art working elements for a wide variety of marketing, client, and sales materials.

• Collaborated with product development teams to create graphics that visually communicate concepts and develop engaging experiences

• Took part in design critiques, both presenting and critiquing my work to improve the quality of design across each project.

• Created assets aligned with each brand, pushing boundaries while keeping consistent style and quality.

• Ensured a consistent, unified look and feel and behavior across all screens of client applications.

• Helped clients and executive management visualise new product concepts through UI mockups.

• I was involved throughout the design and delivery process from discovery and research to interaction design, and testing of actual UX.

Junior Creative, Apr 2015 - Jan 2016 · 10 months -

Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

First Av is a production company that strives to tell visual stories. Responsibilities include (but are not limited to):

• I helped to produce Branding and designs for the company, using strong visual layout skills, conceptualising campaign ideas, and helping to develop them through film.

• I used software such as In design and Illustrator to accurately communicate project information to clients.

• Helped to direct and organise the production team when on shoots, making sure everything runs smoothly.

• Worked closely with the team and head of marketing to produce effective design, which communicates strong a message.