- ⚙️ Blending design and development to craft innovative digital experiences for urban planning.
Work Experience
- Aug2024 - present🦒 Giraffe technologyEngineer
- Oct2023 - Aug2024🧢 CapFounder Fellow: @LaunchClubAutumn24
- ⚙️ Currently building Cap: An opinionated budgeting app.
- Feb2022 - 23/03/2023🪐 GravityUX Engineer
- 🛠️ Designed and coded functional components for enterprise software products.
- 👨🏼💻 Worked on product interaction concepts with latest frontend tech: Tailwind, TailwindUI, NextJS and, TypeScript.
- ⚙️ Built design systems with documentation using Storybook, Confluence and Notion.
- 🚀 Crafted and launched service websites for clients.
- Jan2022 - 20/11/2022🪐 GravityLead Designer
- 🛠️ Designed intuitive design systems, interaction experiments and product concepts using Figma, Storybook, and Framer.
- ⚙️ Built UX flows and UI systems for consumer apps and enterprise services.
- 👨🏼💻 Worked on innovative stealth-mode product projects for corporate clients across various sectors; telecommunications, home improvement, and finance.
- Feb2020 - 30/09/2020⚡️ RunCreative Technologist
- 🧑💻 Collaborated Māori owned, globally awarded creative & design agency; translating creative concepts into functional prototypes for clients.
- 💼 Working briefly on indigenous-led branding projects, cultural workshops.
- Jan2020 - 20/02/2022💥 ColensoExperience Designer
- 💥 Crafted design for immersive digital experiences for corporate clients spanning the telecommunications, pet food, and banking.
- ⚙️ Designed UX flows and UI systems for a globally recognised client in the pet food sector on their consumer app.
- 🔎 Conducted UX research initiatives on various projects to gather insights and inform design decisions, resulting in tailored solutions to be culturally, socially and technologically sound.
- Feb2019 - Feb2019🇳🇿 Tāura Kaiwhatu / Student MentorAuckland University of Technology
- 📝 Mentored University Students spanning; product design, digital arts, creative technologies and media, visual arts and fashion design.
- Jan2018 - 22/11/2022🎨 Brand DesignerSelf employed
- 🛠️ Designed branding from local clients; logo and media asset creation, Identity design and, workshop facilitation.