2.4 years - so far: Led numerous projects
Role: Senior Strategic Designer
Customer: MVP Factory
Tasks:
- Joined the Design Practice as a Senior Strategic Designer and led numerous projects for a wide range of corporate clients
- Projects spanned the entire innovation, product and venture building spectrum in a diverse range of industries
- Conceived and delivered numerous pitches to potential clients as well as developing new in-house methodologies
- Acquired by Ness Digital Engineering
9 months: Developed an overarching, human-centric product and UX design strategy
Role: Head of Design
Customer: SPREAD
Tasks:
- First design hire in a AI startup focusing on building a solution around CAD model data and industrial production processes
- Developed an overarching, human-centric product and UX design strategy which could be applied throughout the company
- Lots of hands-on design tasks such as building a scalable design system, complete interface and interaction design and creating a robust process for research and discovery
2.5 years: Responsible for the complete strategic UX design
Role: Senior Strategic/UX Designer
Customer: Körber Digital
Tasks:
- One of the first employees in Körber?s new digital BA and heavily involved in the early concept phase of flagship product K.Edge Solutions (now FactoryPal)
- Responsible for the complete strategic UX design for several other digital projects that successfully pitched for and won internal funding
- Organised and facilitated many design workshops and sprints for internal and external stakeholders
3 months: Project for electric vehicle charging
Role: Senior Strategic Designer
Customer: Daimler AG
Tasks:
- Joined the innovation hub for Daimler AG and worked on a project for electric vehicle charging (became Evungo)
- Together with the product team, we successfully shepherded the project through the Daimler innovation process and secured ?2.5M internal funding for the next innovation stage
3 months: Build a product for a major banking client
Role: Strategic Design Lead
Customer: BCG Digital Ventures
Tasks:
- Worked in a cross-functional team to concept and build a product for a major banking client
- Heavily involved in the initial product ideation, prototyping and subsequent iterations which finally led to successfully launching an alpha version
11 months: Responsible for establishing the first German subsidiary
Role: Country Manager Germany
Customer: on request
Tasks:
- Responsible for establishing the first German subsidiary for (name on request)and to enter the DACH market
- Successfully established the team, and drove the first revenue with new clients
9.5 years: Front-end development and UX design
Role: Founder & Managing Director
Customer: on request
Tasks:
- Founded and grew a successful front-end development and UX design agency from scratch to a team of 5. Clients included: Allianz, TUI, Startupbootcamp, Airbus, Telefónica, Vattenfall and the European Commission. Acquired by Tapptic