Experience

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  Stubben Edge

  • London, England, United Kingdom

  • Head of Product Design

    • Jul 2023 - Present
    • London, England, United Kingdom

    Leading and growing the product design team. We work to evolve and streamline our platform, constantly enhancing existing feature sets and delivering new value for our various clients.

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  Sanlam

  • South Africa
  • Financial Services
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Design System Partner

    • Feb 2021 - Jul 2023

    Working with the CX and new DS team to grow and expand the design system to one of the most mature and efficient systems around. Key activities: design mentorship, automated theming via design tokens, automated coded-component alterations with tokens and enhanced component structures and DS Manager curation.

  • Design System Leader

    • Sep 2019 - Feb 2021

    Working with our tech team, Initially designing and building Sanlam's first design system. Colloborating with Sanlam's internal teams and external partners and agencies, to build out and expand Sanlam's design system, creating efficiency and consistency at scale. Key activities: strategy and ecosystem design and hands on library creation.

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  Adaptive

  • Cape Town Area, South Africa

  • Founder and Product Design Chief

    • Aug 2019 - Jul 2023
    • Cape Town Area, South Africa

    Product Design on demand. Adaptive is an elastic collective of data scientists, UX analysts, product designers, writers and programmers. We adapt to your needs, whether you need one person or a whole team. We also design, architect and build Design Systems.

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  Mirum Agency

  • Cape Town Area, South Africa

  • Executive Creative Director - Service Design

    • Jul 2018 - Aug 2019
    • Cape Town Area, South Africa

    Evolve, create value for your customers, or die (slowly). Business as usual will not cut it. The new status quo for organisations that want to grow, is to create solutions that solve problems and give people what they need as they go about their business.

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  VML South Africa

  • Cape Town Area, South Africa

  • Independent Experience Director

    • Feb 2018 - Oct 2018
    • Cape Town Area, South Africa

    Building a shopping companion app for one of Africa's biggest omnichannel retailers.

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  Skyrocket Digital

  • Vancouver, Canada Area

  • Founder & Creative Director

    • Jul 2011 - Aug 2017
    • Vancouver, Canada Area

    We work to empower the progressive, the optimistic and the enterprising.We are the strategic partner for startups about to launch new business ventures and established companies that want to gain greater relevance in their marketplace.We specialize in creating design solutions and engaging web experiences that connect new ventures to your markets and build communities around your organization. The impact of our shared expertise drives the reach and vision of a project towards expanded opportunity, engagement and sales.Why? To amplify the impact of clients who are working to improve our community and the world around us.

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  Invoke Media

  • Vancouver, Canada Area

  • Freelance Art Director

    • Feb 2011 - Sep 2011
    • Vancouver, Canada Area

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  Group 91 Design Studio

  • Art Director

    • May 2010 - Jul 2011

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  Back Bar Productions

  • Vancouver, Canada Area

  • Founder & Product Owner

    • 2007 - 2010
    • Vancouver, Canada Area

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  Sandwich

  • Vancouver

  • Art Director

    • 2006 - 2010
    • Vancouver

    An independent Art Director, working with UBC, Live Nation and Orange Life Magazine.

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  BBC

  • London, United Kingdom

  • Designer

    • 2002 - 2004
    • London, United Kingdom