About me
I am an accomplished product design leader with extensive experience spanning the construction, medical, scientific, and consumer electronics industries.
My passion for innovation and empowering those around me to think outside the box and take initiative drives my professional journey. I excel in delivering end-to-end product development programs, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements, and achieving successful mass production.
I focus on physical product development, but I have significant experience designing digital products for web and mobile.
I'm definitely a morning person - get up, grab a coffee and let's go
Likes
Great food
Gin
Travel
Reading - 1984 is my all time favourite
Dislikes
Spicy anything
Whisky
Parallel parking
Having to wait longer than 3 minutes for a tube train.
Work History
Founder, Society | July 2023 to present.
Introducing Society, the dynamic group social platform that redefines connection building.
Discover new friendships around your existing social life.
What sets us apart? We turn making new friends into a fun activity you can do with your existing friends. Goodbye awkward interactions that feel more like work!
If you would like to know more, or be involved, please drop me a private message.
UX / UI DESIGNER, AI Sentr | April 2023 to October 2023.
AI Sentr is a US-based venture capital backed startup founded by 3 ex-Microsoft employees. I acted as a consultant, advising the business as well working with clients to develop front-end dashboards.
Working directly with clients to understand their individual business needs and agree upon the project plan.
Hand sketches and low-fidelity prototypes used to provide regular updates to the clients and keep them engaged and active members of the project.
Formative and Summative Usability Testing.
NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT MANAGER | July 2017 to present.
Selo is the UK market leader for riser doors, smoke control vents and pocket doors for the construction industry. The role involves start to finish management of all new product projects, as well as change management to existing products.
Develop new fire control products from design to delivery, for the construction industry, to make buildings safer.
In 2024 my smoke control damper product became the first product of its kind globally to receive a CE safety rating.
Provide full company education and training on new products as well as technical support to answer customer specific questions.
Introduced a “Private-GPT” style LLM AI to ask questions of the companies’ technical documentation database – brought in an external company to develop a trainable AI integrated into Microsoft Teams for all staff to access.
Managed the time and resources of internal and external teams and suppliers to deliver multi-year projects on time using SaaS project management tools.
Moved the company from managing projects in excel to a SaaS platform, massively increasing transparency, efficiency, and senior leadership engagement.
Lead Production Engineer, Scientifica | September 2016 to June 2017
A specialist UK manufacturer of cutting-edge multi-photon microscopes for neuroscience research. Oversaw the production facility to reduce errors and increase efficiency.
Using six sigma, the entire production process was analysed to identify the root cause of the largest bottlenecks and causes or error.
Low quality supplier drawings, inefficient testing protocols and out-dated stock management software were identified. After changes had been made,
product build times reduced by 30 – 50%. Recurring issues declined by 30%.
Led an internal task force to modernise the production department, implementing modern manufacturing methods, DFM and DFA, communication and reporting standards.
Cost price reductions were seen across all lines. Average employee “Good feel index” increased 10 points, 3 months after implementation.
Industrial Designer, Adlens | November 2014 to September 2016
Pioneering adaptive optics technologies to have a profound impact on the future of eyewear. Part of a design team developing an affordable, adjustable strength pair of glasses for developing nations who do not have access to opticians.
Working in Malaysia, China and Taiwan on new plastic injection moulded part tooling and the commissioning of assembly lines.
Design Engineer, Royde and Tucker | March 2013 to November 2014
Leading UK manufacturer of high-performance architectural door hardware.
Junior Product Designer, QL London | September 2011 to February 2013
Start-up brand creating consumer electronic products for the smartphone and tablet market.
Qualifications and Training
• BA Hons – Product Design
• BTEC Level 3 – Mechanical Engineering
• Google UX Design Certificate
• Agile PM Project Management – Foundation
• Prince2 Project Management – Foundation and Practitioner
• Six Sigma Green Belt
• ILM Level 2 in Leadership and Management
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