CV

UI Engineer Intern

Allstate : Summer 2017

• Developed branding and an online hub for UI Engineering, collaborating with an international team across two continents.
• Co-managed the project from concept to code, practicing everything from crafting a story into a brand and prototyping essentials to ReactJS and SVG animation.
• Participated in the Product Design team weekly critiques, user testing, and design workshops.
• Chronicled the experience in weekly blog posts to help other young designers starting out.

Featured Designer

25 Pop Up : November 2017

• Selected as one of 25 designers across a range of disciplines to participate in the pop-up shop for Belfast Design Week selling my own designs.
• Sold out of all sticker sets created from my original icon designs.

Community Volunteer

CCV Church : 2015-Present

• Mentor young people and engage in community service projects (occasionally while brandishing a trowel).
• Organised donation sorting methods for fundraising sales to help those in need.

Skills & Tools

• Crafting designs with personality through narrative and user centred design.
• Illustration and icon design for digital products and print.
• Bridging gaps and working with designers and developers from concepting to code.
• Coding new stories with HTML, CSS, Javascript, ReactJS, and SVGs.
• Quick to learn and always eager for a new challenge.
• Making monsters in Sketch, Adobe Creative Suite, and InVision.

BDes Hons Interaction Design

Belfast School of Art : 2016-2020

• Modules include: Interaction Design Fundamentals, Communication Design, Exploring Identity, Imaging and Data Visualisation, Creative Entrepreneurship, and Designing with Content. Upcoming focus on Designing User Experiences and Narrative and Storytelling.
• Contributed to setup and curation of art & design pop-up shop opening for the final year exhibition show. Exhibited and successfully sold my own designs.

A-Level Studies

Cross & Passion : 2014-2016

• Maths A, Accounting A, Physics B, English Literature C
• Completed via distance learning, providing practice in both the subject matter and time management and self-directed work.

Among Other Things...

• Fueling my tabletop gaming hobby through regular game design competition winnings.
• Curling up with a good reference book (zoology and ancient military history are favourites besides the inevitable design tomes).
• Bridging gaps and working with designers and developers from concepting to code.
• Constructing Lego vignettes.
• Football (soccer for those across the pond).
• Beating the drums.