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Designer

About

I'm a design lead with over 15 years across product, UX and interface design. At Foundry, which has a 30-year heritage in creative software for the Film and Entertainment industry, I lead product design across Nuke, Katana, Mari, Flix and Griptape, Foundry's AI orchestration platform.

I care most about taking a team from an ambiguous brief to a product that wins and keeps customers, and about the people who get it there. I'm pushing how designers work with AI, training myself and my team in Claude Code and Figma Make.

Before designing software for visual effects artists, I was one. I trained at the National Film and Television School and worked in production as a lighting artist, and I have degrees in business, computing and visual effects. That mix means I can speak credibly to engineers, artists and executives alike. I'm open to Lead and Senior Product Designer roles.

History

  • USD Network Material, Katana

    Redesigned Katana's node graph for USD Network Material, building on my 2018 Network Material design.

  • Lead Product Designer

    Promoted to lead product design across Nuke, Katana, Mari, Flix and Griptape. I line manage 3 designers, influence the roadmap with product owners, and founded the Product Design Guild and Design 102, a bi-weekly forum on design industry news, trends and innovations.

  • Product Designer

    Joined Foundry as a Product Designer on Katana & Mari.

  • Jellyfish Pictures

    Lighting Artist on Dennis and Gnasher Unleashed, a BBC-commissioned episodic animation. Hit a target of 8 shots per day using Shotgun and Redshift.

  • Joined The National Film and Television School

    Joined a 2 year MA in Digital Effects, working on Poles Apart, winner of the 2018 BAFTA for British Short Animation.

  • Lead designer on platform with over 13 million monthly users

    Led design of Wiley's flagship journal platform, serving over 13 million unique users per month, working closely with the User Experience team.

  • Lead User Interface Designer on £50 million project

    Led the design effort for Wiley's largest client, Cochrane Library.

  • Project Manager on £1 million web development project

    I was a project manager on a very important web development project which was a key part in Wiley securing a long term contract. The project was managed in an agile development cycle using kanban.

  • Joined one of the world's largest publishers

    Joined Wiley to manage web projects, delivering professional, usable design concepts to tight deadlines for demanding clients across worldwide project teams.

  • Started my own company

    Self-employed, and provided a range of I.T. services including design, hosting, networking and systems installation. Among the clients we worked with were high-tech companies in the research and engineering sectors.