Hire me: I’m Looking for work

Hi there, I’m currently looking for work and am open to remote, full-time positions.

I can help you with:

Design thinking; from ideation through to prototyping
Planning & running innovation workshops
Collecting Primary and Secondary Research
Writing executive reports
Digital strategy
Understanding of user research and user experience.

I have a number of case studies on my portfolio including:

Start-up for Good, a 2-day sprint workshop I ran for the University of Sunderland to inspire students about entrepreneurship and helping them generate ideas for the UN Sustainability Development Goals
Newcastle Startup Week, a project where I interviewed stakeholders, advertisers and champions of the startup week event to gather insights to inform an impact report
Phillip Parkinson Home care, where I wrote a technical requirements specification for a digital transformation strategy, moving it from a paper system to a digital system.

My goal is to publish 30 case studies.

If you are hiring, please direct message me on linkedin, send me a message on X (formerly Twitter) or drop me an email.

Thanks now

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