Experience

VibePay

• United Kingdom
• Financial Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Product owner | Product designer

  • Jul 2019 - Present

  · Lead product team to design, develop, and improve disruptive fintech product · Work across business units to integrate product design, business objectives, and industry compliance · Analyse, design, and review information architecture and UX/UI · Define and prioritise work packages for product team



Vibe Tickets

• United Kingdom
• Entertainment Providers
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Product owner | UX designer

  • Mar 2016 - Jul 2019

  Lancaster, United Kingdom · Designed and optimised user journeys for multiple social marketplace apps and websites used by tens of thousands or users · Prioritised work packages for product team (design and development) · Served as primary interface between business, design, and development · Proactively responded to requirements of small tech startup including programming software test scrips, copy editing, etc.



University of Leeds

• United Kingdom
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Leverhulme Early Career Fellow

  • Feb 2013 - 2016

  Leeds, United Kingdom · Secured funding from the Leverhulme Trust to undertake an independent and innovative visualisation research programme · Designed and implemented state of the art visualisation methods for analysing behaviour of cancer cells (Javascript, D3.js, HTML5, CSS) · Established collaborative partnership with biologist users at Cardiff University's School of Medicine

• Post-doctoral Research Fellow

  • Feb 2010 - Jan 2013

  Leeds, United Kingdom · Developed state of the art visualisation methods for visual parameter optimisation of image processing algorithms (Java) · Established collaborative partnership with bioinformatician users at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT · Developed a data sampling plug-in for CellProfiler (popular biomedical image analysis framework maintained by the Broad Institute)



Treparel Information Solutions

• Consultant

  • Sep 2009 - Dec 2009

  Delft Area, Netherlands Delivered software product demonstrations at trade shows



University of Manchester

• United Kingdom
• Aviation and Aerospace Component Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Research associate

  • Jan 2009 - Aug 2009

  Designed and developed visualisation software for social network analysis



Eindhoven University of Technology

• Netherlands
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Researcher

  • Oct 2004 - Nov 2008

  Eindhoven Area, Netherlands · Designed and developed state of the art visualisation software for system analysis (C++/OpenGL) · Collaborated with system engineer users at Eindhoven University of Technology



Vrije Universiteit Brussel

• Belgium
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research assistant

  • Jan 2004 - Sep 2004

  Brussels Area, Belgium · Designed and developed novel ontology visualisation software (Java) · Developed step-by-step data-capture method for novice, non-technical users



Accenture

• Ireland
• Business Consulting and Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Business Analyst

  • Jul 2002 - Jul 2003

  Pretoria Area, South Africa · Authored action points to align business process with best-practices; recommendations were enthusiastically implemented by client management (SA Revenue Services) · Co-developed procurement strategy, re-engineered procurement business processes, and authored supporting training material (SA Post Office) · Received final performance assessment of exceptional (top 5% of peers)



Delapse

• South Africa

• Student Intern Programmer

  • 2000 - 2001

  Johannesburg Area, South Africa Developed intranet portal to automate administrative tasks (PHP, MySql, HTML, CSS)