Resume & Employment History

2007

Law Graduate (2:1)University of Leeds

Law Graduate (2:1)
University of Leeds

2015

Trainee Designer KPMG

Trainee Designer
KMPG

2016

UX Senior UX Designer KPMG

UX Senior UX Designer KPMG

2020

UX/UI Designer GreenPowerMonitor

UX/UI Designer
GreenPowerMonitor

2020

Product Designer Global App Testing

Product Designer
Global App Testing

2022

Lead DesignerVaayu

Lead Designer
Vaayu

2024

Senior Product Designer Knack

Senior Product Designer
Knack

Sep 2007 - Jul 2011

Law Degree & Legal Practice Course

 University of Leeds  BPP University  Leeds, UK

I attended the University of Leeds from 2007 to 2010, gradutaing with a 2:1 Law LLB degree (17th of ~220 students).

I then completed the Legal Practice Course (LPC) post-graduate diploma at the BPP University where I was awarded a Distinction. Modules I took during the LPC included Business Law and Practice and Intellectual Property Law.

Jul 2011 - Oct 2015

Legal Executive

 Squire Patton Boggs  Gordons LLP  Leeds, UK

After my Law degree and LPC, I became a Legal Executive in Banking and Financial Services Law. I initially worked at Squire Patton Boggs, a large international firm, and later at Yorkshire-based firm Gordons LLP in 2013.

I progressed from supporting a team of 7 on banking transactions to managing my own caseload of corporate property finance deals. The role required managing high workloads, meeting tight deadlines, and handling unexpected issues with initiative — experience that strengthened my ability to work effectively and positively in high-pressure environments

Oct 2015 - Feb 2016

Designer, Graduate Scheme

 KPMG LLP  Leeds, UK

I retrained as a Designer via KPMG’s graduate scheme. My move from law was driven by an ambition to work in a more creative, less prescriptive industry with greater opportunity for learning and growth.

I first joined the KPMG Learning Academy as an Instructional Designer, where I gained experience designing online learning platforms and courses. This included:

  • Liaising with stakeholders and subject matter experts
  • Writing course content
  • Designing user interactions

Feb 2016 - Aug 2020

UX Designer & Senior UX Designer

 KPMG LLP  Leeds, UK

After my rotation as an Instructional Designer, I joined a new KPMG team to train specifically as a UX/Product Designer, working for 5 years in a small team to design and develop a dashboard product to help clients improve their customers' experience based on data and NPS scores. I was also responsible for coding the front-end to implement my designs and I loved the balance of design and technical elements in this role.

During my time at KPMG I was able to rapidly expand my design skills and was promoted to Senior UX designer in 2018, where I was the lead designer on client projects. My role was varied and included a combination of product design for the core platform, designing bespoke client implementations, and coding the front end of those client dashboards.

I gained valuable experience in:

  • End-to-end design, including high fidelity, interactive prototyping, responsive design
  • Dashboard and data visualisation design
  • Micro-interactions, infographics and UI design
  • Stakeholder and client management, including requirements gathering at scoping sessions and acting as a point of contact through the implementation and BAU phases
  • HTML and CSS (primarily using LESS)
  • Front-end coding: HTML, CSS (LESS), jQuery, basic JavaScript
  • Data visualisation coding using C#, Highcharts and JavaScript

Whilst in this role, my achievements included designing and building a number of dashboards for household-name brands in the energy, airline and financial sectors and working with a small team of 3 to redesign the core product, including leading a redesign of our reporting feature.

Sep 2020 - Dec 2020

UX/UI Designer

 GreenPowerMonitor, DNV GL  Barcelona

I relocated to Barcelona in August 2020 where I worked for 3 months at GreenPowerMonitor as a UX/UI Designer.

As UX/UI Designer for 3 development teams, I worked closely with product owners to design new components and features for a market-leading renewable energy monitoring platform. My responsibilities included:

  • Working with product owners to define user stories
  • Gathering requirements from stakeholders
  • Creating designs from early concepts to polished prototypes
  • Testing assumptions, articulating design decisions and iterating based on feedback
  • Conducting heuristic evaluaations of existing components and features

Dec 2020 - Nov 2022

Product Designer

 Global App Testing  Remote from Barcelona

I worked for a start-up offering crowd-sourced QA testing. With the Head of Product I designed an MVP SaaS platform to document and track bugs found by our crowd QA testers, testing and iterating on it until it became a saleable product.

My focus was on empowering engineering teams to improve the efficiency of their QA workflows through our platform, whilst keeping the UI simple, uncluttered and appealing to a technical user base. I worked in a continuous discovery cycle — customer interviews, research, and solution exploration.

I helped establish a design system based on these principles and also led a full redesign project of the QA tester side of the platform, which included conducting interviews and workshops with testers to better understand their workflows and contexts.

Nov 2022 - Mar 2024

Lead Product Designer

 Vaayu  Remote from Barcelona

As the sole product designer, I was responsible for the end-to-end design of a carbon-emissions tracking tool focused on helping retailers measure and reduce their carbon impact. My role centred on designing dashboards and data visualisations that could distil vast, complex datasets into something comprehensive and actionable.

The data underpinning the tool spanned entire product lifecycles — from raw materials and factory emissions, through operations and logistics, to the final delivery emissions. I had to quickly develop a strong understanding of both the data and the methodologies in order to design visualisations that were clear and meaningful to end users and supported their decision-making processes.

Alongside the main emissions-tracking features and visualisations, I designed a tool that allowed users to model hypothetical changes and see projected impacts on emissions. The focus of this tool was to support businesses in modelling and communicating changes to their own stakeholders which would allow them to define and commit to targets in line with the Science-Based Targets Initiative.

The role was broad, spanning discovery through delivery, and relied on close collaboration with climate scientists and industry experts alongside our team of developers, researchers, and the product manager to explore and find usable solutions to complex problems.

Mar 2024 - Now

Senior Product Designer

 Knack  Remote from Barcelona

At Knack, a no-code platform that lets users build custom web applications, I co-led the redesign of the entire platform. This included driving the Live App redesign (the end product built by our no-code users), and supporting another designer on restructuring and rebuilding the UI of the Builder interface.

As part of this I have maintained and expanded upon an existing design system, and scaled it to accommodate multiple themes, presets and elements for our customers' Live Apps.

I collaborate closely with a small product team, contributing not only to product design but also to growth design (improving onboarding flows, signup experiences, and features like custom domains). Recently designed a new AI feature from scratch which helps users build Live Apps faster and manage their often-complex databases within Knack.

This is one of the most complex tools I’ve worked on; I’ve really enjoyed the challenge of working with engineers and product managers to solve difficult user problems across a very varied user base, whose use cases and technical abilities differ widely.

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