I’m passionate about driving end-to-end UX design and inspiring organisations to invest in it. By combining strategy with hands-on execution, I solve complex problems through proven processes, creating seamless, user-centric experiences that deliver real impact.

My career has opened opportunities for me to work on a variety of amazing projects across several platforms and genres where I have collaborated with cross-functional teams to deliver customer centric, data driven products.

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Experience

Places I’ve worked

Service NSW | Senior Product Designer

As a Senior Product Designer, I led end-to-end design initiatives across both web and app platforms, shaping the MyAccount logged-in experience (service creation, and account management). On the app side, I played a key role in developing core functions and new features, ensuring seamless and intuitive user interactions.

Beyond hands-on design work, I contributed strategically — influencing long-term team roadmaps, shaping UX design strategy, and providing vision and direction for projects ranging from large-scale service overhauls to quick, impactful enhancements. My role extended into cross-functional collaboration, working closely with product managers, engineers, and stakeholders to drive user-centered solutions that aligned with business goals.

Fueled by my passion for lean UX and agile methodologies, I set out to bring modern, efficient design practices to the public sector, ensuring that digital services were not only innovative but also accessible, user-friendly, and built for long-term success.

WooliesX | Senior UX Designer

As a Senior UX Designer at WooliesX, I led end-to-end product design across multiple squads, shaping both app and web experiences with a focus on search, home page, shopping mode, and product feature experiences. My role was to seamlessly blend user-centric design principles with rapid iteration, ensuring that every decision was grounded in customer needs while moving at speed. I championed continuous testing, learning, and refining, driving solutions that were both impactful and intuitive while always keeping the customer at the heart of the experience.

Gumtree (eCG) | Senior Product Designer

As a Senior Product Designer on the Buyer Strategy team, I led end-to-end UX/UI design across key customer-facing experiences, including homepage, ratings, and search. Collaborating with cross-functional teams, I delivered solutions for multiple high-impact products, such as ratings systems, web and app modernisation, and the rollout of a React component library, to help promote consistency, scalability, and a seamless user experience.

As an acting lead, I also led a team of four designers, providing mentorship, direction, and fostering a strong design culture. My focus was on balancing user needs with business goals, driving innovation through data-informed decisions, rapid iteration, and close collaboration with engineering and product teams.

QuoteUp App | Co-Founder

Co-founded a startup that focuses on providing small businesses the ability to provide their customers optimal end-to-end customer service through a quoting and invoice tool. Instrumental in all aspects of business development, UX, UI and marketing (basically a one man band). QuoteUp is still available to use and download on all platforms and actively used by over 1,000 users.

Open Colleges | Digital Designer (UI)

My first role as a digital designer, moving from tangible products to digital design. I started outputting courses to digital form by converting course material to a digital format, eventually joining the foundation team focused on improving the user experience and creating company style guides for both e-learning and platform based assets.

EPE / Roman | Product Designer

My roles at both EPE and Roman Equipment (post acquisition) was an industrial product designer & creative lead. I worked with sales teams to deliver products made for purpose, liaised with suppliers in the product manufacturing phase and concept development, through to sampling and final product import and graphic, branding and packaging design.

Interests

I am infatuated with basketball. I play, watch, analyse and coach. Helping young athletes and teams reach or exceed their potential and being a part of their journey brings me joy. I see basketball as a medium to teach discipline, perseverance and have fun – helping me improve as a person too. I also enjoy cooking (self-proclaimed Masterchef), enjoy being in nature and am always in search of the next destination to travel.

I am appreciative of technology and the way it has improved our lives. I am routinely keeping up to date with tech, AI, UX also reading up on industry trends and practices.

Soft skills
Technical skills

Native app design
Responsive web
End to end product design
Human Centred Design
Design system development
Accessibility & inclusive design
Brand direction

Leadership

Design strategy
Problem solving mindset
People leadership & mentoring
Stakeholder management
Team process & system definition
Business impact ethos
Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Figma / Sketch
Adobe Suite
Microsoft Suite
JIRA / Trello
Google Analytics / GA4
Tableau
MIRO (my second home)

My core principles

Leadership

Lead by example and create an environment that encourages growth, progress and confidence while advocating for open, honest communication for teams and individual designers

Design

UX methodologies and design processes, manifest the best path forward. Experience has empowered me to leverage the “right” amount of design thinking to ensure the best outcome for delivering user-centric products

Product

Shipping product is my jam! I identify a problem as being the path to finding solutions. Working with cross-functional teams to ship products that satisfy the needs of stakeholders and solve problems for customers.

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