Product Design
& Development

Managing a UI development network, tools and standards across the UK to deliver a unified platform within SopraSteria and its core offering. I manage a team of skilled developers and I am part of a wider service design team including UX, UR, Service Design and Content Design. As a combined unit, we establish design thinking and user centred design processes, developement and concepts across the UK government sector.

To have the chance to work briefly for a company such as Jivaro was an absolute pleasure. Working at the forefront of ground-breaking technologies to deliver a top class product using agile methodologies, these guys had everything a hungry software engineer could wish for in a role. In this role I was tasked with replicating an existing system built in express.js and backbone.js into a RESTful AngularJS application to work against a newly developed API with successful results.

Senior Digital Designer

When I joined 180Vita it was originally at the capacity of Senior Digital Designer. My day to day duties consisted of holding design meetings, creating mock-ups and working to the ideal of a user centred design. I also work closely in agile development with backend programmers, taking part in weekly sprint meetings to deliver results and meet expectations.

Head of Design

In this role I fulfilled my duties as Senior Digital Designer but also oversee all areas of design and front end development to ensure quality control and deliver expected results on schedule. This involves weekly sprint meetings with both the design department and again with the development team.

During my time at Zendit I found myself filling many roles as can be found in young start-up companies. I carried the requirement for design in every capacity from print to web and on top of that met the requirements of developing concepts and prototypes for external clients aswell as Zendits own products. This involved liaising with clients from around the world, this required travel to other countries to fulfill necessary user centred design processes.

Adeo Group are a fantastic Ecommerce company of which I had the pleasure of developing UI and UX for. Whilst working at Adeo, I found a deeper interest in UX Design as being primarily an Ecommerce company, user beahaviour has the ability to make or break a companies profits. Adeo also specialise in SEO, again a crucial part of any respectable online store. Day to day duties involved client meetings, design processes and implementing feedback from user testing.

My first serious web gig came in the form of Swan Web Solutions. This is where I learned to bridge the gap between design and development in both frontend and backend. Learning the ropes of working with clients to fulfill their briefs. As this was a very small company which consisted of 2 people, I found myself with huge amounts of responsibility a great deal of the time. This helped me become a quick but thorough developer and my eye for detail as a designer sharpened with every new client.