Digital CV

Here you can learn about my experience so far. User Experience is a vital step for any product, I pride myself in having strong product thinking skills, accessibility knowledge and great communication with the engineering teams. Design is essential, but so is top tier functionality. It’s important for a UX Designer to be able to compromise with Engineers and balance good design with good functionality.

OCCUPATIONS

FuturU | Senior UX Designer

June 2023 - CURRENT

Leading the UX and UI Design of all FuturU products, including the e-learning app and the admin platform which allows organisations who join us assign learning to their staff that links with the learning content on the app. The design process for both of the products leaned heavily into User's Psychology and improving how we facilitate learning content for healthcare workers.

I worked on all of the above within a year as a sole designer in the team, a challenge for sure but I really enjoyed it. Working with a talented big team of developers to make the deigns become a reality. The team was mainly all remote which also had its own challenges but I really enjoyed remote working and keeping in touch with the team via fun innovative ways. As well as using lots of online tools to communicate the project requirements etc.

I also made sure to be an advocate for designs by contributing to other teams, helping design a preview of a chatbot that will be integrated into our app, support marketing and teach others on good UX practices and principles.

Evil Geniuses | UX / UI Designer

APRIL 2022 - CURRENT

Leading the UX and UI Design of all Evil Geniuses esports Products. I implemented senior level work to Factor.gg a League of Legends analytics tool for pro games, including a new Design System in Figma. I lead the design and user interviews and extensive feature research of Sine.gg an internal pro player tool which helps coaching staff make better data driven decision.

I also Re-designed a brand new company website and took part in building it within Webflow. I worked across many departments, eventually taking on a Senior level of responsibility supporting product management in Belfast.

Within my time here I created multiple Design Systems, contributed to many unique features such as Champions Queue streaming platform, ran brainstorming sessions, lead design reviews with the development team keeping them involved within all design processes to improve oversight and presented my work to stakeholders.

🏆 Achievements: Champions Queue website had over 2M users within a month, Accepting the challenge of Driving Product and Design

VML Technology | Product Designer

NovEMBER 2020 - APRIL 2022

Working along side of other UX and UI Designers to create a Video Creation platform which allows users to add data on top of their video footage. Within my time at VML I re-designed a video editing feature in the VML App, for both Android  iOS systems on mobile, tablet and web. I Designed a text transcribing feature for the web version of the application which allowed users to add subtitles and translate them into multiple languages.

I also stitched together sample videos for clients using Json to display their data on top of videos. Animated pitch videos, worked on company decks and other design aspects of the business.

Within my time at VML, I designed many extensive multi platform features, conducted a lot of research, talked to stakeholders, clients and made many presentations.

🏆 Achievements: Implementation of a new video editor across all platforms

Skytek | UX / Web Designer

May 2020 - NoVEMBER 2020

I lead UX and UI design of websites and software for internal products and clients. I re-designed an insurance software called React which tracks onshore and offshore assets for underwriters, I also wireframed and designed a new tool called React2 which supports emergency services in Ireland. I lead all of the design processes and work closely with the developers to implement the designs that are user-centric. I would work with clients to understand their requirements and then design based on their needs and pain points.

My time at Skytek was short but I achieved a re-design of a very large platform and began ground up design setup of a very crutial application for emergency services.

Beingonline | Digital Designer

APRIL 2019 - MAY 2020

I designed a lot of digital content in different formats such as social media posts, videos and animations, website designs, email campaigns, display advertisements and much more.

I would work on many projects at the same time for multiple clients at once. I designed for Stenaline, Power NI, Translink, Smiths Group, Autoline, Belfast Met, Ulster University, NI Water and other local businesses in Ireland and UK. I also lead the UX Research and Wireframe design for HSCNI, which helped users with Mental Health issues take surveys that helped them find the right help.

Dreams and Sofa Time | Graphic Designer

May 2018 - April 2019

At Dreams and Sofatime I would work on both brands to create digitaland print content such as billboards, in-store print outs and posters. I also created digital socialmedia campaigns and display advertisements .I would also work on the website and it’s content using Umbraco CMS. I was also involved in the creation of Bedtime website, a new brand under the same company umbrella.

Freelance | All Design Services

September 2016 - CURRENT

At Dreams and Sofatime I would work on both brands to create digitaland print content such as billboards, in-store print outs and posters. I also created digital socialmedia campaigns and display advertisements .I would also work on the website and it’s content using Umbraco CMS. I was also involved in the creation of Bedtime website, a new brand under the same company umbrella.

EDUCATION

University of Ulster

1st class honours

Course: Interactive Multimedia Design I studied UX & UI design, webcoding PHP, Java Script, Jquery, Ajax, Json,Sass, SQL databases, HTML, and CSS. I graduated with a high first, and my final year project was graded at 81%, third highest in class.

North West Regional College

3 Distinction's

Lvl 3 Extended Diploma in Creative Media. In this course, I learned all about the movieindustry, how to film and edit movies. Imade multiple short videos and wasinvolved in a promotional video made forthe beauty department which was then puton the college website.

High School Education

10 GCSE’s

GCSE's including A in English, IT and Art. All passed above a C.