Feb 2026 – Present · 1 mo

• Building the future with Hit-Boy, the 3x Grammy award winning producer (Jay-Z, Nas, Beyonce, Travis Scott, Rhianna etc.) and artist.

Apr 2025 – Feb 2026 · 10 mos

• Assisting the Verified team with select design searches

Apr 2025 – Dec 2025 · 8 mos · Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

• Backchannel is a two-week job search reset program that helps people bypass the broken application process and get in front of hiring managers directly. It combines my decade of experience helping professionals navigate their careers into a structured system of actionable steps, templates, and guidance. Created without any coding background by leveraging Lovable.dev to turn my expertise into a scalable product → https://the-backchannel.com/

Aug 2022 – May 2025 · 2 yrs 9 mos

• Coho is an easier way to find the right people, the right conversations, and the right insights.
• 📍 2022 – Community Foundation
• Started as a focused community for senior professionals in design, engineering, and data science to share insights and learn from each other. Grew to 850+ members from Google, Amazon, Netflix.
• 📍 2023 – Identifying the Real Problem
• We saw that community alone wasn’t enough, senior professionals weren’t just looking for discussion, they needed structured decision support to move faster and avoid blind spots.
• 📍 2024 – Building the Solution
• We started building the first version of Coho’s decision intelligence engine, designed to capture, structure, and surface real-world decision patterns from curated peer discussions.

Jun 2022 – Oct 2022 · 4 mos

• Owned strategy and P&L for multiple On Deck programs (Design, PM, Data, No Code), leading a team of 15 and driving sustainable growth from recruitment to alumni experience.
• Built systems for onboarding, engagement, and retention reducing churn and increasing cohort success metrics.

Dec 2020 – Jun 2022 · 1 yr 6 mos

• Led operational scaling of On Deck’s design programs, growing membership pipelines and improving cohort onboarding, engagement tracking, and program iteration cycles.
• Built systems for fellow onboarding, event scheduling, connection-matching, and experience feedback, resulting in reduced churn and faster activation.
• Partnered cross-functionally with marketing, product, and leadership teams to streamline program operations and optimize the customer journey from application to alumni stage.
• Integrated customer feedback loops into program design, allowing rapid iteration based on participant outcomes and satisfaction data.

Jan 2022 – Apr 2024 · 2 yrs 3 mos

• Advised on community strategy, helping shape product development and strategic direction. Acquired by Commsor.

Mar 2020 – Dec 2020 · 9 mos

• Expanded InVision’s design leadership programs across EMEA, building operational processes for event planning, community engagement, and partnership tracking.
• Designed repeatable frameworks for local activations, improving event consistency and participant experience across international markets.
• Built community feedback systems to capture qualitative and quantitative insights, informing CX improvements and partnership strategy.
• Collaborated with Sales and Customer Success teams to align community initiatives with retention and growth goals.
• Deployed scalable event workflows, allowing international expansion with minimal increase in operational overhead.

Dec 2018 – Mar 2020 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Took full ownership of EMEA community growth and event strategy, scaling leadership programming across 10+ cities while managing budgets, partner relationships, and performance metrics.
• As Community and Program manager for EMEA I was responsible for connecting the design community and elevating design conversations in multiple markets through in-person experiences.
• This resulted in creating and running/facilitating design leadership dinners in Berlin, London, Milan, Madrid, Lisbon, Zurich, Munich, Amsterdam Bangalore, Singapore, Melbourne, sponsoring community initiatives like UXHel, World Usability Day in Lisbon, World Interaction Day in Manila, Ladies That UX Amsterdam, UX Camp Amsterdam & Montpellier and many others. Representing and working with conferences like Leading Design, UX London, Joint Futures, Car Hmi . Delivered talks in Amsterdam, Helsinki and Lisbon so far.

Aug 2017 – Dec 2018 · 1 yr 4 mos

• InVision is the world’s leading product design collaboration platform, recognized by Forbes as one of 2016’s Next Billion-Dollar Startups.
• We simplify virtually every aspect of the product design workflow and makes collaboration a core part of the process for millions of people across design, development, project management and marketing. We drive the product design process at leading Fortune 100 companies, including at Disney, IBM, Walmart, Apple, Verizon and General Motors.
• InVision for Enterprise gives you the clarity, collaboration, and control you need to power your design process—company wide. And with unlimited projects and unlimited team members, it scales to fit your business needs, no matter how big or small.

Sep 2016 – Oct 2016 · 1 mo · Dublin

• Framer Meetups are all about learning together. Joining one is easy. Bring your laptop, team up and start hacking. Together with Brendan Fagan (Intercom) and John Sherwin (MTT) we're hoping to run a series of workshops for beginner and intermediate users of Framer JS here in Dublin. Join us: http://www.meetup.com/Framer-Dublin/

Aug 2015 – Aug 2017 · 2 yrs · Dublin

• I started Sketch Labs with a clear goal - helping designers find jobs they love and helping companies hire better.
• With my existing connections in the design community, I built very strong relationships with tech companies and design agencies in Dublin, helping them hire junior to lead designers. Managed the entire process from business development, sourcing candidates, managing interviews and extending offers.
• Helped write better job descriptions, advised companies on better hiring practices and engagement with the design community. Companies I've worked with: Design Partners, Paddy Power Betfair, LogoGrab, Axonista, Sonalake, Kooba, Frontend.com, nearForm, Mastercard Labs and others.
• Hired a designer who helped me launch a design jobs board as a side project which now has some paying customers, plus curated and original content.
• Organised the "How To Prepare For Products of Tomorrow" event to help junior designers advance in their careers.
• Organised the Irish premiere of Invision's "Design Disruptors" documentary in the Sugar Club with 150+ invite-only attendees from Intercom, Hubspot, MTT, Paddy Power, Design partners and many other companies from the Dublin tech & design communities.
• Organised the first Dublin Framer workshop.
• Dedicated a substantial portion of my time to help junior designers with their careers and continue to do so.
• Became an integral part of the design community with strong relationships from design leaders to IC's, founders of startups and design agencies through to local leaders of IXDA.

Apr 2014 – Jul 2015 · 1 yr 3 mos · Dublin

• Started out as a resourcer quickly moving into recruitment/account management where I discovered and fell in love with design. Built up a design desk managing the entire recruitment process from business development to sourcing, managing interviews and offer stages.
• Had the opportunity to build relationships with and hire for: Mastercard Labs, Storyful, Whatclinic.com, Fenergo, OPSH, Galvanic, Sajan and others.
• Sponsored the Defuse event which is an annual design event in Dublin with 300 + attendees.

Feb 2013 – Apr 2014 · 1 yr 2 mos · Dublin

• Managed a dedicated customer base producing €90k+ monthly in sales.
• New Business & existing key client account development.
• Client relationship building
• Client retention
• Achieving and exceeding targets
• Product sourcing
• Dealing primarily with state & private schools, universities, colleges, hospitals however I also have clients in the SME sector through my constant prospecting.
• Since taking over my current client base in April I quickly built strong relationships with my key accounts and buyers, increased their spend and recently managed to secure contract extensions with both UCD and RCSI.
• Nominated for sales person of the month for September's performance across our Ireland & UK offices.
• Finished on 225% against my sales target my first month with the company.
• Dublin Airport key account added to my client base due to my relationship building and account development skills.
• Achieved €860k in sales in 2013.

Dec 2012 – Feb 2013 · 2 mos · Dublin

• Having just moved to Dublin I used my hospitality experience to settle in a new city while I considered opportunities in sales and recruitment.

Jun 2007 – Nov 2012 · 5 yrs 5 mos · Lanzarote, Canary Islands

• Having gained some experience in local restaurants & bars I then helped open a very successful restaurant where I later became the manager. In the last 2 years of my time in Lanzarote I successfully launched:
• Leased my own kitchen (O´Connells Irish Bar & Restaurant) with minimal personal investment. Here I employed a chef, sourced the produce, created the menu, served the customers, promoted and advertised the restaurant.
• Spotted an opportunity within a new local bar (Abacus Bar) to set up a cocktail bar on their terrace. I proposed this to the owners and then implemented and launched the bar with minimal investment. Within 2 weeks I increased the sales of cocktails by 200%.

Nov 2006 – May 2007 · 6 mos · London Area, United Kingdom

• Having gained sales experience required for a recruitment position I then moved into construction recruitment which my plan when I moved to London.
• I was responsible for building my own database of candidates and clients through various job sites, headhunting, meeting with candidates, working on CV ́s, arranging interviews, guiding the candidates through the process.
• Not long after joining I decided to move back to the Canary Islands.

May 2005 – Oct 2006 · 1 yr 5 mos · London Area, United Kingdom

• Started at the company cold calling, building a database of buyers, then promoted to appointment making for the field reps.
• Spotting opportunities to close accounts while making the appointments I built a base of customers of my own and was then promoted into the sales team which also gave me the opportunity to move to the company HQ in Hertfordshire.
• Daily duties included managing customer accounts, dealing with queries and returns, achieving daily KPI ́s, prospecting new business opportunities.