Experience
Fifteen years of practice and delivery
A senior service designer and human-centred strategist across luxury hospitality, telecommunications, finance, aviation, government and social impact.
- 15+
- Years of experience
- 6
- Industry Sectors
- 4
- Global Regions

Flagship case studies
See the work behind two contracts and one permanent role.
Start with the evidence: the challenge, my contribution, the decisions and what changed. The full career record follows below.
Kerzner International2024 – Present
A shared language for guest value, across three luxury brands
Brand, CRM, operations, data and finance had no common way to argue for the same guest. This gave them one: a lifecycle, a set of needs and an operating rhythm that connect guest experience to commercial outcomes across One&Only, Atlantis and SIRO.
Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM), via Arthur D. Little2024
Deciding where AI belongs in a financial centre's client service
A client relationship function buckling under growth, turned into a benchmarked, prioritised digitalisation programme, with explicit boundaries for what AI should handle, what it should never decide, and where a human stays in the loop.
Belong2017 – 2021
A new front-end stack and distributed UX chapter
As Digital Product Owner and UX Chapter Lead, I set the standard for digital interactions and led a distributed UX chapter that improved sales, service demand and speed to market.
Contracting experience includes selected client engagements delivered through Essential Craft. Employment experience follows; selected engagements open into deeper case studies.
Contracting experience
Essential Craft
Founder & Principal ConsultantIndependent Service Design and CX Transformation practice delivering engagements across the UAE, GCC and internationally.
Selected client engagements
- 2024 – Present
Kerzner International
Service Design & Value Enablement Consultant
Retained to connect luxury guest experiences to commercial outcomes across the One&Only, Atlantis and SIRO brand portfolio.
- Developed a commercial value-enablement playbook that strengthened the operating model, clarified ownership and improved commercial prioritisation across brand, CRM, operations, data and finance.
- Created lifecycle frameworks for portfolio-level guest relationship growth, moving beyond single-property conversion towards long-term share-of-life value.
- Shaped an Experience & Innovation Management Office concept and a 3-year strategy connecting guest and employee experience to Board-level targets.
Luxury hospitalityView case study - Jan 2024 – Mar 2025
Arthur D. Little (ADL)
Senior Service Designer / CX Designer
Engaged by ADL Middle East to guide a financial-services CX and digital-transformation assignment.
- Supported ADGM's CR&M digitalisation project: customer lifecycle and ecosystem mapping, international benchmarking, and prioritised initiatives across Salesforce optimisation, knowledge-base governance, customer-facing AI service channels and internal GenAI support.
Financial servicesView case study - 2024 – 2025
stc, via Arthur D. Little
CX Workshop Facilitator / Service Designer
Co-designed and facilitated a standalone Customer Experience learning programme for stc senior leaders.
- Ran workshops covering customer-centricity, persona building, journey mapping, employee empowerment, CX metrics, data-driven personalisation, omnichannel service and AI-enabled support.
- Kept this engagement focused on leadership capability and practical CX methods; it was not part of the Belong or Telstra work.
Telecoms - 2024 – 2025
Telekom Srbija, via Arthur D. Little
CX Strategy Facilitator / Service Designer
Developed and presented a standalone Value of CX leadership narrative for Telekom Srbija.
- Connected customer experience to organic growth, market resilience, cost efficiency and the practical ingredients of a customer-centric culture.
- Introduced total-experience thinking as a leadership framework for considering customer and employee outcomes together.
Telecoms - Feb 2023 – Jan 2024
XWORX Design Services
Principal Designer
Hired to build XWORX's service design capability and delivery quality, and grow the team behind it.
- Led design, innovation and service design engagements across government, aviation, energy and mobility, developing innovation roadmaps and coaching design teams.
- Selected work: ADQ design thinking training (100+ participants), TAQA COP28 innovation bootcamp, Dubai Future Foundation telecoms foresight, Etihad Airways airport journey mapping, ADNEC executive coaching.
GovernmentAviationEnergy - Feb 2022 – Feb 2023
Telstra, via Thought Collaborative
Senior Service Designer
Contracted as a Senior Service Designer across two distinct Telstra engagements: 5G Home Internet and the B2B API Storefront.
- 5G Home Internet: conducted customer research and service-record audits, mapped journeys and touchpoints, and brought customer evidence into product and architecture decisions.
- B2B API Storefront: mapped the customer and developer experience, clarified data-sharing needs and aligned product, commercial and technical stakeholders.
Telecoms - May 2021 – Feb 2022
Vinnies Australia
Senior Service Designer
Engaged to bring structure and evidence-based prioritisation to a distributed, resource-constrained digital function.
- Created personas, feature blueprints, journey maps and prioritisation frameworks to help digital channels extend mission impact by reaching previously under-represented social groups.
- Rallied geographically distributed leadership around a metric-driven prioritisation approach, focusing limited resources on stronger mission outcomes and creating a unified digital roadmap.
Social impact - 2015 – Present
Audacity Wines
Experience Design Consultant
Long-running advisory relationship shaping the end-to-end customer and visitor experience for a boutique wine producer.
- Designed brand and customer experience across digital, direct-to-consumer and on-site visitor touchpoints, advising on positioning and proposition as the business grew from launch to established operation at one digital and two physical storefronts.
Consumer / DTC
Employment experience
- Nov 2017 – Apr 2021
Belong
Digital Product Owner and UX Chapter Lead
Led Belong's digital product and UX practice, delivering a redesigned front-end stack and building a distributed UX chapter across business teams.
- Owned the end-to-end redesign of Belong's front-end stack, including a design system and headless CMS foundation capable of supporting personalisation.
- Built and led a distributed UX chapter across other business teams, embedding customer evidence and experience-design practice into product, architecture and commercial decisions.
- Increased sales, reduced call volumes and made offers and campaigns 10× faster to market.
- Developed OKRs, personas, journey maps, service blueprints and experience principles to connect customer value to delivery priorities.
TelecomsView case study - Sep 2017 – Feb 2019
Nomura Research Institute (NRI)
Service Designer, Consultant
Engaged to bring service design and customer research capabilities into enterprise technology delivery (formerly SMS Management & Technology).
- Led customer research, stakeholder engagement, facilitation, service strategy and agile product ownership across enterprise technology contexts.
- Developed a connected-car strategy for a global automotive manufacturer and established a Customer Lab. Clients included Belong, Honda and the Victorian Managed Insurance Authority.
TelecomsAutomotiveInsurance
Earlier career
- 2002 – 2021
- Push...Design · Freelance Service / CX / UX Designer (concurrent practice)
- UK / Australia
- 2014 – 2016
- lyPa · Experience Product Owner
- Perth, Australia
- 2012 – 2014
- Self-employed · Designer / Builder
- Perth, Australia
- 2010 – 2012
- EPIK Korea · TEFL English Teacher
- Pohang, Korea
- 2008 – 2010
- NFU Mutual · Business Analyst and Sales
- Glasgow, UK
- 2006 – 2008
- Insight Innovations · Designer and Photographer
- Scotland
- 2004 – 2008
- HBOS · Service Consultant
- United Kingdom
- 2001 – 2003
- Medea International · Graphic Design Intern
- United Kingdom
Education & teaching
- 2004 – 2008
- University of Dundee
- BSc Product / Service Design
- 2019
- RMIT University
- Invited Service Design Mentor, RMIT Online
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