Dec 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 5 mos · Bath, England, United Kingdom · Remote

• I run sprints and embed inside product teams to help them move from idea to validated solution — fast.
• Highlights:
• Led 25+ design sprints across fintech, energy, mobility, and AI startups
• Delivered validated prototypes for bp ventures and Consultz (consulting platform), resulting in early traction and funding
• Developed AI-augmented workflows to cut research time by 7+ hours/week
• Repositioned startup offerings and tested go-to-market strategy with real users
• Created playbooks for founders to continue iterating post-sprint

Apr 2021 – Nov 2022 · 1 yr 7 mos

• Member of advisory board, providing strategy and design expertise for a new innovative employee wellness product.

Apr 2019 – Nov 2021 · 2 yrs 7 mos · London, United Kingdom

• Built Synechron London's first agile design teams, bringing startup thinking to enterprise challenges

Mar 2019 – Jul 2024 · 5 yrs 4 mos · London, England, United Kingdom

• Teaching children from grade 6 what design thinking is through app design. 30+ new design thinkers graduated and counting

Oct 2018 – Mar 2019 · 5 mos · London, United Kingdom

• Set the framework for the TCS Interactive design system "Fluid".
• Moved the organisation from Sketch to Figma to allow better collaboration between Europe and India.
• Put in an agile way of working.
• Championed user first thinking.
• Mentored design team across, CX, UX and UI.

Sep 2018 – Sep 2018 · 0 mo · London, United Kingdom

Jun 2018 – Aug 2018 · 2 mos · London, United Kingdom

• Visa Innovation Center

Mar 2018 – May 2018 · 2 mos · London, United Kingdom

Dec 2017 – Mar 2018 · 3 mos · London, United Kingdom

• Working across customer (CX) and user experience (UX) practices.
• Leading a small, nimble and talented team.
• Answering to the Chief Strategy Officer.

Apr 2017 – Nov 2017 · 7 mos · London, United Kingdom

• Visual direction for Connected Money app.
• Set design principles
• Championed illustration to convey complex concepts to customers
• Test/ build approach through user testing

Jan 2017 – Mar 2017 · 2 mos · London, United Kingdom

• Product design across brand, visual and voice UI

Sep 2016 – Mar 2017 · 6 mos · London, United Kingdom

Mar 2016 – Jul 2016 · 4 mos · London, United Kingdom

• Can't say yet. But cannot wait to tell you. It's amazing.

Feb 2016 – Feb 2016 · 0 mo

• Short sharp global project.

Sep 2015 – Oct 2019 · 4 yrs 1 mo · Athens

• Honoured to be working with the excellent Digitized team at this yearly digital design conference.
• Interviewed the conference's presenters live on stage after each presentation with questions from the audience and of my own. With no access to the presentations beforehand.
• Researching the presenters before the conference
• Responsible for moving the conversation forward and keeping it on topic
• Ability to tailor questions 'on the fly' to both suit each presenter's presentation and for the audience's needs
• Curate and pick the best questions from Twitter during each presentation
• Cite the audience and keep them involved
• Curate a 30 minute panel around a specialist topic. E.g. UX
• At the 2016 event Digitized asked me to be the host and introduce each speaker too. I kept to a 'no jokes' and 'keep it quick' format which made sure the speakers were always the ones centre stage.

Mar 2015 – Jan 2016 · 10 mos · London, United Kingdom

• Continuing to create the UI design direction and language of their and their clients products.
• Developing creative strategy and 'way of working' with clients.
• Presenting at Board Level both internally and externally with major music publishers.
• Managing design team, interviewing and hiring new designers of all levels from junior to Head of Design.
• Instrumental in creating the brand values and company culture.

Feb 2015 – Mar 2015 · 1 mo · London, United Kingdom

• Working with Tido, a startup, to firstly create their brand and, in turn, their iPad app UI.

Aug 2014 – Jan 2015 · 5 mos · London, United Kingdom

• Lead the iPad app UI design for a financial investment company.

Jan 2014 – Nov 2021 · 7 yrs 10 mos · London, United Kingdom

• Product design and research consultancy

Apr 2012 – May 2013 · 1 yr 1 mo

Jan 2014 – Jun 2014 · 5 mos · london, england

• Design lead, client facing role on native apps across financial and travel accounts. My job included leading teams from design concept and brand generation workshops through static mockups, interactive flinto prototypes to final iOS and Android releases in their respective app stores.

May 2013 – Dec 2013 · 7 mos

• Serving on GolinHarris' executive board my job was to create digitally centric creative work and drive technical innovation within the business.

Dec 2012 – Jan 2013 · 1 mo

Nov 2012 – Nov 2012 · 0 mo

Dec 2012 – Dec 2012 · 0 mo

Sep 2012 – Sep 2012 · 0 mo · London, United Kingdom

Aug 2012 – Aug 2012 · 0 mo · London, United Kingdom

• Creating big ideas and design mockups for social media campaigns.

Aug 2011 – Jul 2012 · 11 mos · Athens, Greece

• Responsible for creative direction.

Jan 2010 – Aug 2011 · 1 yr 7 mos

• Creating campaigns for among others Volkswagen, Sony Ericsson and Olympic Air. Winning Gold Ermis for VW Scirocco interactive campaign.

Jun 2009 – Jul 2011 · 2 yrs 1 mo

• Founder of email design awards programme Inbox Award. We would love to have your entry http://snipr.com/k502r

Dec 2008 – Dec 2009 · 1 yr

• Art Director within the interactive team.

Nov 2008 – Nov 2008 · 0 mo

• Provided part of the design for the Pan-European Electrolux pitch for the brands Electrolux, AEG, and Zanussi. My role was to design the interface and identity for the media asset library.
• Great team to work with and I'm very happy for them as they went on to win this huge account.
• More can be read about the win here:
• http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS111097+26-Feb-2009+MW20090226

Oct 2008 – Oct 2008 · 0 mo

• Art direction on campaign work for Nissan

Oct 2008 – Oct 2008 · 0 mo

• Art Direction on pitch for FMCG brand

Sep 2008 – Oct 2008 · 1 mo

• Design for Ministry of Sound e-commerce site and Haymarket Publishing intranet

Jun 2008 – Sep 2008 · 3 mos

• Creating concepts through to design on campaign for Sony Playstation's Buzz The Game. This included banners and a web 2.0 community website where users can create, share and play quizzes.

Jun 2008 – Jun 2008 · 0 mo

• Designed presentations for Nokia

Apr 2008 – May 2008 · 1 mo

• Conceptualised and designed a web 2.0 search application/website for the financial sector.
• Worked full life cycle from scamping concepts to presenting final designs to client.

Mar 2008 – Jun 2008 · 3 mos

• Designed identity and supporting online materials (website, banner ads, etc) for fictional and key piece within an Alternative Reality Game (ARG) for the BBC.

Jan 2008 – Mar 2008 · 2 mos

• Covered Creative Director, providing Art Direction on projects for Intercontinental Hotels, Giovanni Rana, Eristoff Vodka and Patek Philippe.
• Key team member on Timberland global account pitch, (in conjunction with Leagas Delaney). Providing digital concepts.
• Result: Account Won

Oct 2007 – Nov 2007 · 1 mo

• Providing Art Direction on projects for Intercontinental Hotels, Giovanni Rana and Nokia

Nov 2007 – Dec 2007 · 1 mo

• Site concept and design creation within Future Media & Technology's User Experience Design department.

Sep 2007 – Oct 2007 · 1 mo

• Created and led GUI design on Facebook application for Ebay. Led workshops wtih client and Albion, created wireframes and look and feel.

Sep 2007 – Sep 2007 · 0 mo

• Senior Creative providing concept, strategy and design work.

Aug 2007 – Aug 2007 · 0 mo

• I created concepts and designs for RBS and Telegraph online campaign work

May 2007 – Jun 2007 · 1 mo

• Design work for Thinkbox

Mar 2007 – Apr 2007 · 1 mo

• Working with a traditional media creative team, we created http://www.webnwalk.co.uk .
• My role was to work with the team to create the concept for the site along with the design.

Feb 2007 – Feb 2007 · 0 mo

• Created conceptual interface work for web and wap devices

Nov 2006 – Feb 2007 · 3 mos

• Strategic Consulting, creative development of large Ad agency offline campaigns to online environments, recruiting and managing teams

May 2006 – Nov 2006 · 6 mos

• Working in the interactive department I create concepts through to look and feel for pitches on both Sky and non-Sky branded products.

May 2006 – May 2006 · 0 mo

• Contracted to redesign the corporate website I was given the new logo, the four corporate colours and the company ethos. From this I had 3 weeks to create the design for the website after creating several concepts in the first week I produced an over-arching concept, look and feel and several flexible templates for them to use.

Mar 2006 – May 2006 · 2 mos

• Lead designer on campaigns for Hugo Boss, Mini and Energy Savings Trust

Jan 2006 – Mar 2006 · 2 mos

• Created online campaigns for CBBC and The Apprentice. The latter created one of the highest responses they have had.

Jan 2006 – Jan 2006 · 0 mo

Nov 2005 – Dec 2005 · 1 mo

• I worked as a Senior Designer and Art Director creating campaigns for Canary Wharf and Unilever, strengthing and improving VM's digital offer.

May 2005 – Aug 2005 · 3 mos

• Senior Designer on redesign of t-mobile.co.uk

Jan 2005 – Jan 2005 · 0 mo

May 2004 – Feb 2005 · 9 mos

• Working as part of talented team I created concepts and designs for several blue chip clients. On several of these I would lead the design phase working directly with the creative director and client then supervising junior designers to bring the project to completion

Jan 2003 – Jan 2004 · 1 yr

Jan 2001 – Jan 2003 · 2 yrs

Jan 2000 – Dec 2000 · 11 mos

• Led design for both the Film and Extreme Sports channels creating template driven designs for Vignette Story Server and standalone promotional flash sites.