Curriculum vitae

 
 
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Experience 

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Meta (2022–)

Content Designer

  • Designer in the Work Platform team at Reality Labs

 
 

LovedBy Design (2021–2022)

Lead Content Designer

  • Lead LovedBy Design’s content design proposition, consulting a range of clients – including Lloyds Banking Group, Cambridge University and AXA Health – on the paramount role content plays at the intersection of customer experience, product, and service design

  • Employ design thinking and human-centred design principles to illuminate business problems and reveal user needs before conceptualising, devising and delivering tailored content solutions

  • Create content strategies, typologies and processes that enable iterative production suited to audience demand

  • Structure material into information architectures and distribution models, allowing it to be discovered intuitively and frictionlessly

  • Integrate quantitative and qualitative research data, using statistical techniques and in-depth analysis to inductively uncover insights and empirically validate solutions, ensuring work is always calibrated to measurable performance and the best available evidence

  • Develop a deep understanding of every facet of an organisation – its products, people and customers – to guarantee programmes aligned to a business’s requirements, strategic goals and value proposition

  • Implement agile methodologies – including kanban and scrum frameworks – working in sprints to deliver and oversee timely work in a manner that is continually evaluating, evolving and improving

  • Communicate with internal and external stakeholders, challenging briefs, nurturing relationships and obtaining necessary buy-in, so a project can be guided to mutually recognised fruition

  • Hire and manage designers and copywriters, verifying the team have the necessary skills, capabilities and resources to succeed

  • Directed several projects – from content audits and architectures, to feature design and creative output – which met client objectives and secured further work for LovedBy

 
 

Greenlight Digital (2017–21)

Senior Content Strategist

  • Led, created, researched, project managed and developed content strategies and activity for Legal & General, Pfizer, RB and Currys

  • Produced content campaigns across a variety of formats including articles, whitepapers, infographics, interactive features and video

  • Coordinated and sub edited a team of copywriters, designers, developers, and videographers to ensure content met a brand’s quality standard

  • Identified opportunities and analysed audiences through data to generate interest, leads, earned links, social engagement and PR exposure

  • Cultivated relationships with influencers, experts and journalists to produce authoritative content that demanded mainstream attention

  • Pitched ideas and reported results to clients in presentations and briefings

 
 

Manning Gottlieb OMD (2014–17)

Senior Content Executive

  • Content strategy and production for Virgin Media, Virgin Trains, Estée Lauder, Starbucks, Specsavers, Renault, Mitsubishi, TSB and Wilko

  • Managed entire content process: audience analysis, opportunity identification, idea development, creative execution & optimisation

  • Wrote articles & posts; designed infographics, animation & video

  • Collated, aggregated and optimised content across channels: organic search, social media feeds, on-site blogs, email newsletters & chatbots

  • Planned, monitored and reported effectiveness and performance through data research, social listening, web analytics and CMS

  • As Innovation group member, consulted on emerging technologies (AI, VR/AR) & digital transformation with projects, research, conference presentations and writing

 
 

Wirral Grammar School for Boys (2013–14)

Graphic Designer and Publishing Editor

  • Provided graphic design and publishing services to secondary school

  • Designed and edited a termly newsletter (“Thinking & Learning”) that was distributed to all staff and featured articles from fellow teachers sharing advice and ideas to improve teaching and learning practices

  • Designed posters and signage for the History Department to inspire and inform students, and portray a coherent image that represents and encourages professionalism

  • Compiled a learning statement, jointly conceived by students and staff, and rendered it into a clear and attractive graphic that is now displayed around the school to project a common ethic

  • Assisted students and staff in operating a project to commemorate the centenary of World War One: sitting on the commemorations panel managing and coordinating its efforts, producing branding and publicity materials, contacting local press and businesses to secure funding and promote the project raising money for the British Legion

 
 

VLDB Solutions (2013–14)

PPC Reporting Analyst

  • Researched, created and managed numerous PPC (pay-per-click) digital marketing accounts

  • Liaised with clients and colleagues to devise and implement effective marketing strategies that successfully maximised ROI

  • Learnt on the job, through initiative and application, becoming experienced with Google AdWords and Bing Ads

  • Utilised bid management software and data analysis (Google Analytics) tools, communicated complex data to clients (advanced use of Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint), and analysed information to aid a data-driven approach to marketing

  • Worked on other streams incl. SEO, social, display and email, and operated a content management system (CMS)

  • Provided IT/network management and support, creative and web design skills (using Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator) and journalistic copywriting abilities, running the company’s blog and social media, as a dynamic part of a small team

 
 

Yorkshire Evening Post (2013)

News Reporter

  • Worked on the news desk and with the features team

  • Produced numerous articles, including three news stories with bylines, and a 1000 word, double page feature

  • Gained first-hand experience of the professional press, learnt how to work within the news team, communicate effectively with colleagues, execute tasks under pressure and work successfully to deadlines

  • Obtained a formal understanding of journalistic practice and responsibility, within both ethical and legal contexts

  • Acquired an insight into digital content production as the newspaper transitions from print to online

 
 

Education 

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London School of Economics (2018–20)

MSc Politics and Communication

with Distinction
Winner of the Prize for Best Dissertation

 
 

University of Leeds (2009–12)

BA Philosophy

with First-class Honours

 
 

Wirral Grammar School for Boys (2002–09)

3 x A-levels, 10 x GCSEs at A* to C/9 to 4

 
 

Software 

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CV key

Office productivity and presentation

Office productivity and Presentation software: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Prezi, Keynote

Design and AV production

Design and AV production software: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Premiere, After Effects, Audition

Web analytics and development

Web analytics and development software: Google Analytics, Adobe Analytics (Omniture), HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP

Social media, email and customer relationship management (CRM)

Social media, email and customer relationship management software: Hootsuite, HubSpot, Sprout Social, Mailchimp, Salesforce, Oracle

SEO, content and social media analysis

SEO, content and social media analysis software: SEMrush, Majestic, Pi Datametrics, BuzzSumo, Brandwatch, Awario

Content management systems (CMS)

Content management systems (CMS): WordPress, Drupal, Squarespace, Adobe Experience Manager (AEM), Contentful, Umbraco

Audience insights, market research and comms planning

Audience insights, market research and comms planning software: YouGov Profiles, Comscore, Kantar Media TGI, Google Trends, Google Ads, Facebook Ads

Data analysis, visualisation and machine learning

Data analysis, visualisation and machine learning software: SPSS, Stata, Tableau, R, Python, TensorFlow
 
 

Skills 

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Strategy

Strategy & Planning

Design

Design & AV production

Research

Research & Analysis

Copy

Writing & Editing

Data

Data & Reporting

Project management

Project management

 
 

Interests 

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Politics

Politics

Science

Science

Culture

Culture

Technology

Technology

History

History

Sport

Sport

 
 
 

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