Design and Product Consultant

Vizaeo

• Brand and product design for an answer engine optimisation platform that helps businesses improve how they are represented in AI-generated answers: the company identity, the first iteration of the website, elements of the application interface, and product design strategy.

Oxford Sixth Form College

Oxford

Taught across all fifteen years: EAL, Academic English and Study Skills until 2016, then A-Level Photography for the following nine, with A-Level Graphic Communication added in 2022. The leadership roles below were held alongside that teaching.

Teacher of Graphic Communication and Photography, full time

• Proposed a new A-Level in Graphic Communication, designed the curriculum and left the Senior Tutor role to teach it full time and establish the programme.
• Taught it alongside A-Level Photography: visual communication, technical camera skills and digital editing in Adobe Creative Suite.
• Directed students’ creative output from brief to finished portfolio, and developed staff and student training on the ethical use of AI in creative work.

Senior Tutor

• Sole point of contact for academic and pastoral communication with up to fifty students a year and their parents, guardians and overseas agents, adapting register across a wide range of stakeholders. Advised students through university applications and led the PSHE programme.

Programme Manager

• Led academic management and quality assurance for the College’s short courses, including the Oxford Advanced Studies Programme and the Easter Revision Courses at Brasenose College. Recruited and trained 30+ external staff each year for programmes serving 200+ students.

Head of International Students

• Led pastoral care and academic support for over eighty international students, coordinating between college staff, parents and overseas agents, and representing student needs at senior meetings.

Joint Course Director, Academic Preparation Programme

• Co-directed curriculum development for the international Academic Preparation Programme, and hired and managed a team of EFL tutors across EAL, IELTS and Academic English.

Media Analyst

Prime Research, Oxford

• Monitored, analysed and evaluated media performance across social, digital, print and broadcast channels for clients.

Web Development Consultant

Freelance, California

• Self-employed, providing web development and search engine optimisation for small businesses and private clients.

Web Project Manager

The Lambesis Agency, California

• Managed all client web development for a leading advertising agency, with brands including Hitachi, SKYY Vodka, Campari and Hard Rock Hotel.
• Worked with creative teams, developers and senior account management to deliver brand-aligned digital communications, and led in-house search strategy after formal training with Google.

New Media Manager

McGraw-Hill Education, California

• Managed the New Media department, a team of graphic artists and web programmers, at one of the world’s leading educational publishers.
• Developed digital textbooks, interactive learning content and online portals, led the conversion of print titles to CD-ROM and then to web, and ran the company’s first web-based textbook trial.

Founder and Publisher

Blend Magazine, San Diego

• Founded and published a lifestyle magazine, distribution 10,000 a month: editorial direction, advertising sales, graphic design, copywriting and print production.

Founder, Editor and Moderator

tarothistory.com

• Founded and still run a scholarly site and forum on the history of the tarot as a card game: its origins in fifteenth-century northern Italy, its spread across Europe, and its later adaptation as a divinatory tool. Twenty years of editing and moderating an international research community.
• Specialise in comparative iconography, setting cards from different decks side by side and reading small details (a change of ornament, a hand moved to the other side, a figure standing rather than seated) to trace descent between decks and establish which came first.
• Published in the Association for Tarot Studies newsletter, including ‘Hunting the “true” Marseille Tarot’ (2006), which set out a two-family classification of the Marseilles pattern from comparative analysis of decks dated 1499 to 1790.

Creator

cunningfolkcards.com

• Original historical research into the English cunning folk, building an archive of 127 primary and secondary sources, each recorded with its provenance, a confidence assessment and whether the text is actually held. Directed the design and structure, and edited and fact-checked all content. Site built by directing Claude to write the code.
• Designed the research system behind it: an Obsidian vault and a written verification protocol, using AI as a research assistant under a written rule that no claim is marked confirmed until the passage has been read in the source.

Creator

spiritusloci.co.uk

• An online work in writing and photography exploring personhood, memory and the spirit of place. Structured as a codex of attendant figures, the canonical hours, field fragments and a sung antiphon, it moves between English folk belief, monastic time and the material culture of devotion. Written, photographed and designed by me, with the generative tools used for code, some text, music and animation credited in the colophon.

Creator

spiritusloci.ai

• AI-generated images, animation and music video, made in Midjourney and Suno and edited in DaVinci Resolve.

BA (Hons) Humanities, specialism in Religious Studies

Open University

Diploma in English Local History

University of Oxford, Department of Continuing Education

Diploma in Graphic Design · Diploma in Computer Graphics

The Advertising Arts College; Platt College

CELTA · Level 4 Certificate in Mindfulness Teaching

British Study Centres; Mindfulness UK

Level 2 Child Safeguarding · Level 1 Safer Hiring · Prevent Safeguarding Training