About Me
I'm a multidisciplinary designer/maker, happiest when leveraging my full toolkit of research, design & code to explore & provide creative solutions for the fuzziest of problem spaces.
Originally from Ireland, I've worked for global companies & start-ups in the UK, The Netherlands, the US & Australia, where I'm currently based in Melbourne.
FLINTWORKS
Flintworks is a VR toolkit for the clinical treatment of complex mental health disorders
2021 - PRESENT | Melbourne, Australia
CO-FOUNDER
Responsible for product strategy, management, research, design & software development
flintworks.co
DO SOMETHING
DoSomething is a wellness x productivity app to sustain meaningful change in your life
2019 - 2020 | Sydney, Australia
CO-FOUNDER
Responsible for product strategy, management, research, design & software development
dosomethingapp.com
DOLBY LABS
Dolby is the world leader in audio visual entertainment technology
2007 - 2018 | Sydney, Australia
SENIOR STAFF UX RESEARCHER & DESIGNER
Project lead in global Consumer Entertainment UX team
SENIOR STAFF TECHNOLOGIST
Multi-disciplinary role in high profile R&D teams
STAFF / SENIOR APP DESIGN & DEVELOPMENT LEAD
Global app design & development lead on flagship products & initiatives
dolby.com
TOMTOM
TomTom is the world leader in navigation, traffic & mapping solutions
2000 - 2004 | Amsterdam, The Netherlands
MOBILE APP DESIGNER DEVELOPER
App design & development lead on award winning mobile navigation products
tomtom.com
SKILLS
UX Design
Ideation, Product Design, Experience Design, Service Design, Information Architecture, Interaction Design,
Visual Design, Copywriting, Brand Development, Storytelling, UX Strategy
UX Research
User Research (Ethnographic studies, Usability testing, Contextual Enquiries, Quantitative studies)
Technology, Ecosystem, Consumer Trend Research (Exploratory & Targeted)
Emergent Technology Speciality (IoT, AR, VR, Wearables, Capture, Sensors, Machine Learning, etc)
Prototyping
Rapid & Exploratory
Paper to No Code to Low Code to Code
Innovation
Concept Ideation, Generation, Development, Incubation
Facilitation
Design Sprints, Ideation Sessions, Workshops, Design Thinking Seminars
Solution Design
Product, Research, Design, Technical
Software Development
Mobile, XR & Desktop Development, Backend & Frontend, Native & Web
Swift/Objective C, Java/ Kotlin, C/C++, Unity/C#, Javascript
Management
Multi-Disciplinary Projects, Teams, Mentorship
TALENTS
Highly skilled at end to end product design & development - from conception & incubation to research & design to prototyping & coding
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Creative thinker, capable of marrying big picture vision with the micro-details that matter
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Flexible executor, capable of bouncing from high-level strategy to low-level implementation
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Evidence-based product prototyper, building to the fidelity that resolves the riskiest unknowns
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Natural story-teller, weaving abstract concepts into compelling narratives for broad audiences
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Continuously seeking out & fighting for for systemic improvements in my environments
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Energised by new experiences, at ease with rapidly spinning up a functional competency on new platforms, models, tools
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Highly effective collaborator, able to drive & deliver complex, multi-disciplinary, multi-geo projects
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Strong can-do entrepreneurial drive, thriving on opaquely defined 'left of the idea' projects
