Strategic Designer with over 12 years experience in building and running products, venture and agencies.
Aktualisiert am 20.11.2023
Profil
Freiberufler / Selbstständiger
Remote-Arbeit
Verfügbar ab: 01.01.2024
Verfügbar zu: 100%
davon vor Ort: 50%
Design-Konzept
UX-Design
Strategie
English
Fluent
German
Fluent
Swedish
Fluent
Spanish
Fortgeschritten

Einsatzorte

Einsatzorte

Deutschland, Schweiz, Österreich
möglich

Projekte

Projekte

2.4 years - so far: Led numerous projects


Role: Senior Strategic Designer

Customer: MVP Factory


Tasks:

  • Joined the Design Practice as a Senior Strategic Designer and led numerous projects for a wide range of corporate clients
  • Projects spanned the entire innovation, product and venture building spectrum in a diverse range of industries
  • Conceived and delivered numerous pitches to potential clients as well as developing new in-house methodologies
  • Acquired by Ness Digital Engineering

9 months: Developed an overarching, human-centric product and UX design strategy


Role: Head of Design

Customer: SPREAD


Tasks:

  • First design hire in a AI startup focusing on building a solution around CAD model data and industrial production processes
  • Developed an overarching, human-centric product and UX design strategy which could be applied throughout the company
  • Lots of hands-on design tasks such as building a scalable design system, complete interface and interaction design and creating a robust process for research and discovery

2.5 years: Responsible for the complete strategic UX design


Role: Senior Strategic/UX Designer

Customer: Körber Digital


Tasks:

  • One of the first employees in Körber?s new digital BA and heavily involved in the early concept phase of flagship product K.Edge Solutions (now FactoryPal)
  • Responsible for the complete strategic UX design for several other digital projects that successfully pitched for and won internal funding
  • Organised and facilitated many design workshops and sprints for internal and external stakeholders

3 months: Project for electric vehicle charging


Role: Senior Strategic Designer

Customer: Daimler AG


Tasks:

  • Joined the innovation hub for Daimler AG and worked on a project for electric vehicle charging (became Evungo)
  • Together with the product team, we successfully shepherded the project through the Daimler innovation process and secured ?2.5M internal funding for the next innovation stage

3 months: Build a product for a major banking client

Role: Strategic Design Lead

Customer: BCG Digital Ventures


Tasks:

  • Worked in a cross-functional team to concept and build a product for a major banking client
  • Heavily involved in the initial product ideation, prototyping and subsequent iterations which finally led to successfully launching an alpha version

11 months: Responsible for establishing the first German subsidiary


Role: Country Manager Germany

Customer: on request


Tasks:

  • Responsible for establishing the first German subsidiary for (name on request)and to enter the DACH market
  • Successfully established the team, and drove the first revenue with new clients

9.5 years: Front-end development and UX design

Role: Founder & Managing Director

Customer: on request


Tasks:

  • Founded and grew a successful front-end development and UX design agency from scratch to a team of 5. Clients included: Allianz, TUI, Startupbootcamp, Airbus, Telefónica, Vattenfall and the European Commission. Acquired by Tapptic

Aus- und Weiterbildung

Aus- und Weiterbildung

1998 - 2001

University of Durham Durham, UK

BA Economics (Hons.)

Kompetenzen

Kompetenzen

Top-Skills

Design-Konzept UX-Design Strategie

Produkte / Standards / Erfahrungen / Methoden

MENTORING & TEACHING

2023 - today:

Role: Mentor

Customer: ADPList


2015 - 2016:

Role: Enterprise Instructor

Customer: General Assembly


2015 -2015:

Role: Mentor

Customer: Techstars


2015 - 2015:

Role:  Mentor

Customer: enpact


2012 - 2015:

Role: Mentor

Customer: Startupbootcamp Berlin


2013 - 2013:

Role: Course Instructor

Customer: General Assembly

Einsatzorte

Einsatzorte

Deutschland, Schweiz, Österreich
möglich

Projekte

Projekte

2.4 years - so far: Led numerous projects


Role: Senior Strategic Designer

Customer: MVP Factory


Tasks:

  • Joined the Design Practice as a Senior Strategic Designer and led numerous projects for a wide range of corporate clients
  • Projects spanned the entire innovation, product and venture building spectrum in a diverse range of industries
  • Conceived and delivered numerous pitches to potential clients as well as developing new in-house methodologies
  • Acquired by Ness Digital Engineering

9 months: Developed an overarching, human-centric product and UX design strategy


Role: Head of Design

Customer: SPREAD


Tasks:

  • First design hire in a AI startup focusing on building a solution around CAD model data and industrial production processes
  • Developed an overarching, human-centric product and UX design strategy which could be applied throughout the company
  • Lots of hands-on design tasks such as building a scalable design system, complete interface and interaction design and creating a robust process for research and discovery

2.5 years: Responsible for the complete strategic UX design


Role: Senior Strategic/UX Designer

Customer: Körber Digital


Tasks:

  • One of the first employees in Körber?s new digital BA and heavily involved in the early concept phase of flagship product K.Edge Solutions (now FactoryPal)
  • Responsible for the complete strategic UX design for several other digital projects that successfully pitched for and won internal funding
  • Organised and facilitated many design workshops and sprints for internal and external stakeholders

3 months: Project for electric vehicle charging


Role: Senior Strategic Designer

Customer: Daimler AG


Tasks:

  • Joined the innovation hub for Daimler AG and worked on a project for electric vehicle charging (became Evungo)
  • Together with the product team, we successfully shepherded the project through the Daimler innovation process and secured ?2.5M internal funding for the next innovation stage

3 months: Build a product for a major banking client

Role: Strategic Design Lead

Customer: BCG Digital Ventures


Tasks:

  • Worked in a cross-functional team to concept and build a product for a major banking client
  • Heavily involved in the initial product ideation, prototyping and subsequent iterations which finally led to successfully launching an alpha version

11 months: Responsible for establishing the first German subsidiary


Role: Country Manager Germany

Customer: on request


Tasks:

  • Responsible for establishing the first German subsidiary for (name on request)and to enter the DACH market
  • Successfully established the team, and drove the first revenue with new clients

9.5 years: Front-end development and UX design

Role: Founder & Managing Director

Customer: on request


Tasks:

  • Founded and grew a successful front-end development and UX design agency from scratch to a team of 5. Clients included: Allianz, TUI, Startupbootcamp, Airbus, Telefónica, Vattenfall and the European Commission. Acquired by Tapptic

Aus- und Weiterbildung

Aus- und Weiterbildung

1998 - 2001

University of Durham Durham, UK

BA Economics (Hons.)

Kompetenzen

Kompetenzen

Top-Skills

Design-Konzept UX-Design Strategie

Produkte / Standards / Erfahrungen / Methoden

MENTORING & TEACHING

2023 - today:

Role: Mentor

Customer: ADPList


2015 - 2016:

Role: Enterprise Instructor

Customer: General Assembly


2015 -2015:

Role: Mentor

Customer: Techstars


2015 - 2015:

Role:  Mentor

Customer: enpact


2012 - 2015:

Role: Mentor

Customer: Startupbootcamp Berlin


2013 - 2013:

Role: Course Instructor

Customer: General Assembly

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