Experience

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  Cantium Business Solutions

  • United Kingdom

  • Application Support Analyst

    • Feb 2022 - Present
    • United Kingdom

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  Embedded UI/UX Visual Designer seeking new opportunities

  • Nottingham, United Kingdom

  • UI/UX Visual Designer

    • Jun 2016 - Mar 2022
    • Nottingham, United Kingdom

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  Unify

  • Beeston, Nottingham

  • UI/UX Lead & Visual Designer

    • Aug 2013 - Jun 2016
    • Beeston, Nottingham

    Expert point of contact while collaborating with frog Design (Munich) on the user interface (UI) for a new family of IP desk phones; able to engage directly with various design specialists ensuring closer collaboration.Seamlessly continued and enhanced the visual design and user interaction design work (in-house for Unify) when the contract with frog Design ended.Produced high quality graphical assets removing the need to extend the contract with frog Design and ensuring design house quality and “on-brand” display assets at product launch.

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  Siemens Enterprise Communications

  • Beeston, Nottingham

  • UI/UX Developer & Definition Expert

    • Jul 2003 - Aug 2013
    • Beeston, Nottingham

    Designed and developed the UI/UX for the OpenStage family of phones.Redesigned UI/UX for a separate soft-key-driven variant for the US market.Produced definition documents and sales support media for multiple phone features.

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  Siemens GEC Communications Systems

  • Beeston, Nottingham

  • Senior Software Engineer

    • Jun 2001 - Aug 2003
    • Beeston, Nottingham

    Contracted to work with Siemens Automotive in Regensburg. Responsible for communications software for in-car networks (e.g. Jaguar X-type)

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  GEC Plessey Telecommunications

  • United Kingdom
  • Telecommunications
  • 1 - 100 Employee

  • Senior Software Engineer

    • Apr 1991 - Jun 2001

    •Consistently developed and delivered communications signalling software on time and to required quality.•Single-handedly developed software to add “cordless handover” (roaming between CT2 radio zones) to the iSDX100 PABX.

  • Software Team Leader

    • Sep 1988 - Apr 1991

    •Responsible (hands-on) for a team of four, developing a PC-controlled Verification Test System to automatically regression-test PABX features overnight; reducing testing time and costs.

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  GEC - Private Systems Division

  • Coventry

  • Physical Design Team Leader/Member

    • Oct 1981 - Sep 1988
    • Coventry

    Physical Design Team Lyric/SL-1 – responsible for multiple interfaces between software/hardware/mechanical design teams and in-house production facilities, including PCB manufacturing and all aspects of production support.