A multidisciplinary creative with over 20 years experience delivering human-centered solutions to all kinds of creative challenges I consider myself to be pragmatic with exceptional communication, interpersonal skills, and the ability to manage personal workload to meet deadlines and feedback regularly. I can pro-actively communicating project status and areas of concern with a sharing growth mindset and the ability to work to collaborative milestones.

Previously I was the Design Manager, the Development Manager and Lead Technical Support at an multi award winning, multi million UK based company that works with clients all over the world.

The position didn't come easy, and outside of other designers in the team I helped project manage some very important clients when it was needed. My skills, experience and background in small team management shined through and I was offered the position to manage the design department, this lead me to managing the development department and then been given respectively the position of lead techinical support in respect of my communication with clients that still shines on today.

It's simply about being organised, future-proofing and meeting your own deadlines. Planning and Communication is key

I was at the forefront of changing the company from a 100k business to a 500k business becoming the most recognised world leading SEO business and one of the world’s top Ecommerce businesses with some of the top clientele communicating directly ( B2B ) with over 500+ clients including Ryderwear and Callabronco offering direct technical support, experience as a UX designer and managing, leasing with the business directors on finance, hiring, offering my experience in business management and collaboration between teams within administration and automation.

In the last 3 years I have managed 3 different departments and 2 teams of over 20 people simultaneously with huge success. I also have experience with Lean startup and agile methodologies utilising all team members and focused on evidence based research.

I have communicated directly ( B2B ) with over 500+ clients, offering direct technical support, experience as a UX designer and managing, leasing with the business directors on finance, hiring, offering my experience in business management and collaboration between teams within administration and automation.

Specialist in rethinking services, shaping new business models and bringing new concepts to life.

Offering a creative direction as an agile, energetic, and organised problem solver through Storyboarding, Wire-framing and Prototyping with ideation on Usability Testing, looking at the User Journey, Research & Testing having the experience and knowledge to push projects forward from beginning to launch.

Working with me, I am an agile, highly organised, energetic, creative problem solver as a modern creative designer and developer offering a creative direction through Wire-framing and Prototyping with Ideation on Usability Testing, looking at the User Journey, Research & Testing having the experience and knowledge to push projects forward from beginning to launch.

In previous roles I have lead the design and development process from start to launch, taught UI and UX design through one on one and lead user stories workshops to plan, discuss and identify problems to solve and ideate on solutions.

I consider myself to be pragmatic, with exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, to manage personal workload in order to meet deadlines and feedback regularly, and pro-actively, communicating project status, areas of concern sharing a growth mindset, working to collaborative milestones.

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Key skills in UI, UX and Product Design, Research & Integrations

  • Conduct and demonstrate GUI/UI/Lean UX/UX Design & Development, UX Researcher, UX Strategy and SaaS UX Design
  • With the addition of Rapid UX/UI Wireframing & Prototyping
  • Through User Stories · Empathy · User Research · Information Architecture · User Journey Mapping · Flow Analysis · A/B Testing
  • Developing Scalable, Well-tested and Maintainable Internal and Online Platforms as well as Other Product Design
  • Agile Project Management ( Kanban/Scrum ) / Sprints & Timekeeping
  • Business to Business ( B2B ) Liaising with businesses to provide Consultancy and Interpret Briefs
  • Translating designs and specs into Usable Web Applications
  • Adobe CC / Affinity / Sketch ( + Figma, Axure, Balsamiq, InVision, Marvel, Proto.io, ) | Atlassian software ( ex. Jira, Confluence )
  • Concept Generation / Integrated Marketing / Digital Marketing Strategy
  • Working with the Design, Product and Development teams to ensure designs are Understood, Feasible to be developed, Building Relations Social Media Marketing, Advertising & Public Relations
  • On-Page & Global SEO / Technical Consultancy / Link Building Strategy/Planning / Adwords Qualified / Google Analytics / Searchmetrics Understand Human Behavior and Design Best Practices to underpin designs
  • Proactive in proposing improvements in Design, Function and Features as well as Sharing Knowledge, Research and Experience

Key skills in UX Development & Integrations

  • PHP / ASP / XML
  • HTML5 / CSS3 / Flex / LESS / SASS ( Bootstrap + ... )
  • UI animation and graphic programming technologies ( e.g. DFB, WebGL, EFL )
  • Javascript ( JQuery )/React/Angular JS/MVC frameworks
  • MySQL / Basic
  • Apache & Nginx Server Management / cPanel ( WHM ) / Plesk
  • Apache HTTP / Xampp / Mamp / Wamp Server Management
  • Server-Side Development - PuTTY / Node.JS / Bower / NPM / Grunt / Gulp / Composer
  • Version Control - Github, Gitlab, BitBucket
  • Magento 1.0+ / 2.2 / Security / Upgrades
  • Wordpress Theme Development / Integrations / Security / API / Plugin Development
  • Shopify Theme Development / Integrations / App Development
  • CMS - Joomla / CS-Cart / Drupal / Prestashop / Concrete5

Key skills in Video & Motion Graphics

  • DaVinci Resolve / Final Cut Pro X & ScreenFlow
  • High Standard Design Sensibilities ( Branding, Style Guide )
  • Overseeing the quality and progress of audio and video engineering and editing
  • Experimenting with styles and techniques including the design of graphic elements
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