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August 2016 - Present

New Zealand's leading retail group is founded on a vision to create a 100-year business that helps New Zealanders flourish. My role is to look after all digital touch points for our online users and in store customers.

November 2014 - August 2016

Fairfax Media Limited is one of Australia's largest diversified media companies. The group's operations include newspapers, magazines, radio and digital media operating in Australia and New Zealand. My role is to look after all aspects of the User Experience of the Stuff app for iOS and Android.

October 2013 - December 2017

Appsme is a SaaS platform that enables small and medium sized businesses to create native apps in less than 5 minutes for Android, iOS

-> www.appsme.com

June 2005 - December 2017

Created the world’s biggest white label app building platform with over 125.000 apps live in app stores globally. Licensed and deployed the platform to 3 out of the top 5 handset manufacturers (Samsung, Nokia, BlackBerry).

Raised $12m Round A financing from Accel Partners, a tier one VC.

Designed and built award-winning apps for Android, iOS, WindowsPhone, BlackBerry, Tizen, Firefox OS, Symbian, Meego and HTML5.

Trusted app solution partner for global brands including Vodafone, Mozilla, GQ, Vogue, Glamour, OK Magazine, Daily Mail, Evening Standard and many more. Leading a team of up to 20 developers and designers.

February 2004 - June 2005

Working within the Innovations Team of T-Mobile International in London my role was to push the boundaries of what was technically possible and to define the future of mobile services & apps for T-Mobile.

May 2003 - December 2003

Designed and created interactive prototypes for mobile device UI’s and operator services for AT&T, T-Mobile, Vodafone, Nokia N-Gage and Sony Ericsson.

November 2002 - April 2003

Worked inside the next generation 3G devices and products unit helping them with interaction design and UI visualisations for the S55 feature phone and the SX1 Symbian smartphone.