About Me
I graduated from the University of Bath in 2015 with a degree in International Management and German. I joined Coherent in 2016 as a business development manager, and employee #1. I’m now a Product Manager & Designer, leading a team of developers
Day-to-day I research and plan new features based on insights collected from our customer success team, direct contact with existing customers and demos with new ones. I produce low and high fidelity mockups and if appropriate, review them with our development team before creating a full feature scope. I manage the workload of all of our developers and QA all work before it is deployed
I accidentally grew into my role as a Designer; I’d never had any design training or done any design work, but as the requirements of our team evolved, I had to fill the gap.
Outside of work I like to workout, boulder occasionally and enjoy cooking vegan food. I play a fair amount of Xbox, build a lot of Lego and collect houseplants 🪴
Work
Being part of the Coherent team since the product was in beta, I’ve been directly involved with every piece of product development; I’ve researched, designed, scoped and tested almost every feature and bug fix we’ve ever released.
I’ve interviewed and onboarded several developers and business development roles, conducted product demos in English and German, represented the company at Google’s Campus Exchange: Best of British and run a crowdfunding campaign that raised over £120k
Below are some of my most recent pieces of work. And here’s my tech stack - hardware and software I use day-to-day
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My Tech Stack
Some of the tools I use day-to-day, personally and in my work life
Hardware
2015 MacBook Pro 13"
22" Samsung monitor (it's old and rubbish and in desperate need of an upgrade)
2018 iPad Pro 11"
Apple Pencil (2nd gen)
Software
Design
Concepts - low-fidelity designs & early brainstorming
Figma - design exploration & high-fidelity designs
Management
Milanote - top level strategy and project planning
Docs/Sheets - feature scopes and QA feedback
Trello - project management
Hubspot - tracking customer conversations and storing user feedback
Communication
Slack - team communication
Orbital - quick, audio-only team communication
Gather - company social events
Personal
Notion - organising and planning my life
Bear - dumping thoughts and ideas, and writing longer pieces of content
Resources
Some resources I use for advice, inspiration etc
Data Filters
Here's an overview of the project