Résumé.
LendInvest
Lead Product Designer: April 2024 - present
Senior Product Designer: October 2021 - March 2024
At LendInvest I am making specialist mortgages – and the tech that supports them – more accessible.
Lingumi
Design Manager: June 2020 - September 2021
At Lingumi I led a team of product designers, illustrators, and games designers, with a responsibility for the end-to-end experience across an audience of both toddlers and their grown-ups.
My role saw guiding the design strategy, shaping the approach to user research, and setting up processes to meet Lingumi’s Series B objectives.
While at Lingumi I led an overhaul of our brand to make it accessible and inclusive to all audiences, building a full Brand Identity system as well as accompanying Design Component Library and Games Design Library, allowing our tech team to test and build consistently.
EF Education First
Senior Product Designer: August 2018 - May 2020
At EF Class I built digital tools across iOS and web platforms. I helped define the experience, test, and then created pixel-perfect interfaces, some of which helped increase our North Star metric by up to 29%.
During my time at EF I led my team to a new research processes that not only ensured we analysed things both project-centric, but also in a way that fed into a wider bank of data agnostic of projects.
Super Being
Product Designer: February 2016 - August 2018
Clients of mine at Super Being included AllBright, Breast Cancer Care, Oxfam, The Brilliant Club, Sporting Memories Foundation, George the Poet, NSPCC, CAST, and NCVO, working across Android, iOS and web.
Routemap
Product Designer: September 2014 - December 2016
Routemap was an experimental company whose intention was to help university applicants discover the courses they were best suited to by showcasing example content and examining their soft skills. I tested and implemented best practices for online learning and examination, and researched delivery methods with the help of several Russell Group universities.
GoCardless
Business Development: 2014
I worked alongside the early business development team at GoCardless, helping foster relationships between GC founders and charities.
Notable achievements
✨ Won the coveted 'Best Effort' award at Sports Day in 2007 and 2008
Followed by Stevie Buckley on Twitter dot com
✨ Once ate 1.5kg of Stilton in a single sitting
✨ Often expected to be 'much taller in real life'
✨ Drummer in East London's 4th best Cowboy-themed two-piece psych band
Described by Cezar Almeida as 'quite helpful'
