Open to 3-6-month Product Design Lead/Senior Product Designer contracting roles. DM for Portfolio! 🎨📊👩🏽‍💻As an award-winning, multi-lingual and technically-minded Product Design Consultant, I help companies and non-profits achieve inclusive and sustainable social impact and business growth. My focus is in leading teams for product design; I have wider experience in the full product/software delivery lifecycle, which helps me to have big picture thinking coupled with a focus for details, whilst solving problems holistically. ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽I have written thought leadership and proposals for pitching to win new work. I was also part of the core team behind IBM’s BAME/BIPOC employee network, running initiatives to make IBM, its clients and society more diverse, equitable and inclusive. In a similar manner, I have volunteered my design and coaching skills for external Tech for Good projects, from empowering women by tackling financial abuse to reducing systemic racism. 🤖☁️👍➿Key project experience: - Digital transformation & innovation for customer/employee experience - Designing SaaS platforms/products - Designing experiences for Cloud computing (migration and modernisation) - Designing via Agile ways of working (Scrum, Kanban and SAFe) - Designing artificial Intelligence/intelligent workflows ⚖️📞🛍Industry experience: - Finance - Government - Telecommunications - Automotive - Oil & Gas - CPG - Retail - Energy & Utilities 🏆🏅Awards/accolades: 2021: IBM Service Excellence Award, TechWomen 100 Award finalist, Technology Businesswoman of the Year finalist, Asian Women of Achievement Award finalist, McKinsey Next Generation Future Woman Leader, WeAreTheCity ‘Rising Star in Tech’ Award finalist, IBM International Women's Day Leader Award 2020: IBM iX People's Choice Award, Code First Girls Hack from Home challenge finalist 2019: IBM Manager's Choice Award - dare to create original ideas, IBM Manager's Choice Award - put the client first 🎯📈My future goals/ambitions: I hope to design and scale businesses to create new systems that cater to everyone. I'm highly mission-driven and am interested in empowering communities, particularly underrepresented ones, shown through my volunteering, to ensure we build an equitable, diverse and inclusive world. 🏸✍️Outside of work: Podcasts on psychology & personal development 🧠🧐, badminton and cats 🐈‍⬛ Recently started getting back into childhood interests like drawing, singing and dancing!