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CAREER

June 2021 - Current

Senior Design Manager

London Stock Exchange Group

  • ​Squad Lead

    • Core design team​ (x4 team members)

    • Trading design team (Aprox' 6 team members)

    • Mobile design team (Aprox' 4 team members)​

      • Seen as a blue print of a truly collaborative team​

  • Cluster Lead

    • Collaboration team (2 team members)​

  • People Management

    • 4 members of the wider design team​

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To better understand the nature of the products worked on during this time, please view the following links;
 

Jan 2021 - June 2021

Principle Product Designer

London Stock Exchange Group

A continuation of my role at Refinitiv

Hands on practitioner for Eikon and Workspace. Flagship enterprise products from the days of Thomson Reuters, Refinitiv and LSEG.

  • Market Insights

  • News

  • Charting

  • Watchlists

  • Notifications and Alerts

  • Corporate profiles for both Private and Public companies

  • Access to Analyst Ratings

  • Events

  • Data Screening

  • ESG and Sustainability

Oct 2018 - Jan 2021

Senior Product Designer

Refinitiv

Predominantly, leadership of the mobile design team.

  • Proactively reviewed ways of working, between all stakeholders. In order to build relationships, and improve the process

  • Planning

  • Delivery

  • Direction

  • Hands support, as required

Sept 2013 - Oct 2018

Thomson Reuters

Senior Interaction Designer

  • UX Practitioner across many projects

  • Leading UX, UI and Research projects

  • Design reviews and audits
     

My first step into AI and Machine Learning. Partnering with IBM Watson on a $100M  investment in the use of AI within the legal sector.

July 2013 - Aug 2013

Design Director

Bell Pottinger

  • Short term role

  • Wireframes and creative direction for desktop, tablet and mobile

July 2010 - Jun 2013

Design Manager

Marko Media (MyVoucherCodes)

  • Working directly with the owner and project team, to develop its global offering, prior to a £50m sale.

  • CMS driven template to accommodate international expansion into 12 countries

  • User Experience and Interaction Design

  • Competitor Analysis

  • Creation of Social Media assets, including Facebook, Email Marketing and Exhibition Collateral

April 2008 - May 2010

Head of Brand & Creative

Defaqto

  • Overseeing all creative output (on & offline)

  • Management of a multi-disciplinary team, including a Content Manager, Freelance Copywriters, Information Architects and Designers. Along with the added responsibility of taking over management of the Brand Executives.

  • Helping to architect a new digital product - An online network, connecting Consumers directly with their Financial Advisors and Banks. Allowing potential Advisors to bid for new business.

2007 - 2008

Senior Art Director

Harvest Digital

  • Predominantly online advertising and web sites

Dec 2005 - 2008

Freelance Senior Designer

Various agencies and companies

  • 26 London

  • Amex

  • Dare Digital

  • DLKW

  • Emperor Designs

  • McKinsey & Co

  • NHS

  • NTL

  • Ogilvy One Interactive

  • Proximity London

  • Virgin

2002 - 2005

Create Services Ltd (Owned by LTSB)

Online Creative Director

  • Managing the online design team

    • Lloyds TSB Current Accounts and Credit Cards

    • Goldfish Credit Cards

    • More Than Credit Cards

    • Easy Money Credit Cards

    • Scottish Widows

    • Accucard (The worlds first personalised Credit Card)

  • Helping to create a new brand identity for Create Credit Card

  • Print and POS assets for Lloyds TSB and Goldfish

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Our team became the most successful acquisition tool, across all other credit card and current account channels.

1989 - 2002

TMP Worldwide (Owners of Monster.com)

Art Director / Studio Manager

  • Directory Advertising

  • Recruitment Advertising

  • Employer Branding

  • Online Advertising

  • Web Site Design

  • Photography
     

Highlights

  • Playing my part as artwork creation transitioned from paste up, to the use of Apple computers

  • Being one of the earliest designers in the UK, to design web sites and online advertising. Hard to believe, but Monster was one of the first companies to go live on the web. As such, I proactively asked my Managing Director, if I could design a site for one of our clients. The rest, as they say, is history.

  • Designed the first ever interactive HTML advert, to go live in the UK

  • Grabbed the opportunity to move away from directory advertising, and enjoy the dawn of the web

  • Gaining a fascination with designing adverts which could be trackable and measured

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