I specialize in transforming complex business challenges into scalable systems that drive growth, reduce cost, and improve customer experience. Here's how I've done it — across industries, technologies, and teams.
Manufacturing wasn't the problem. Customer understanding was.
Five subsidiaries, three acquisitions, and 300+ pieces of collateral were telling different stories to the same customers. We consolidated the product architecture, rebuilt the information hierarchy, and moved the customer journey from confusion to confidence.
Scope of ownership
Developed the complete group brand system and the TGroup Branding Guidelines.
Led brand, marketing and customer-experience integration across five engineering subsidiaries and three acquisitions.
Led the marketing team and created more than 240 customer, technical and sales assets.
Designed the configurable digital product experience represented in the Trafalgar Safety sub-case.
Award Recognition
WSABE 2021 Excellence in Marketing · Winner
The marketing team behind the transformation
“The Marketing Excellence Award is fiercely contested, but seeing a first-time winner like you is truly refreshing. Your exceptional performance blows past industry standards.”
The Results · Same Award · Trafalgar Group
Simplifying the customer journey
Award-winning results.
300%
Website Traffic
Organic growth
395%
Social Media
Engagement increase
269%
Email Opens
Improved open rates
258%
Email Clicks
Higher click-through
Group-wide results
80% reduction in customer-support demand.
More than 30,000 printed pages avoided annually.
240+ customer, technical and sales assets created.
WSABE 2021 Excellence in Marketing · Winner.
PEOPLE WIZARDS (AI StartUP) · CO-FOUNDER & CMO · SEATTLE, USA · 2024–2025
AI-Powered Communication Intelligence Platform
Communication tools across four verticals collected data but gave people no usable intelligence — and users said so.
Challenge
A substantial addressable market across dating, relationships, corporate and mental health communication, with critical intelligence gaps and 73% user dissatisfaction in existing solutions.
Intervention
Led brand, product marketing and customer experience from concept to MVP (dating.wtf), creating the brand identity and all graphic design.
Developed positioning, product language, messaging, website content, UX and interface copy, customer journeys and the onboarding experience.
Designed and built successive product websites herself in Hostinger, Wix and Webflow; later managed customer and lead activity in Outseta CRM.
Led customer research and market validation, translating behavioural-science concepts into customer-facing product language.
Outcomes
Functioning MVP launched with beta user validation and market testing.
Complete brand and product-language system developed from concept to market-ready platform.
Clear go-to-market strategy defined, applying Founder University methods in customer discovery, product-market fit, market sizing and investor communication.
Input journey — turning an ambiguous dating exchange into a structured product interactionInput journey — turning an ambiguous dating exchange into a structured product interactionCompatibility report — translating behavioural analysis into a legible customer outcomeCompatibility report — translating behavioural analysis into a legible customer outcomeBrand system — identity, colour, interface language and graphic directionBrand system — identity, colour, interface language and graphic directionCustomer journey — mapping discovery, assessment, onboarding and report deliveryCustomer journey — mapping discovery, assessment, onboarding and report delivery
A $2B development portfolio needed political, industry and community stakeholders aligned before construction could move.
Challenge
High-stakes communications across a $2B development program spanning multiple political, industry and community stakeholders.
Intervention
Designed stakeholder engagement frameworks grounded in data.
Delivered strategic marketing campaigns across institutional channels.
Navigated and de-escalated politically sensitive communications.
Outcomes
Strengthened institutional reputation through trust-building campaigns.
Enabled cross-sector collaboration under complex governance requirements.
Selected outputs
Western Growth program communications
$2B
Development portfolio
4
Industry awards for project excellence
Stakeholder governance
Strategic communications
Reputation
Campaign delivery
Provider+ · Strategic marketing & UX
Clarity Through UX & Website Transformation
Buyers could not tell what the business actually sold, so sales teams spent calls explaining rather than closing.
Challenge
A rapidly scaling service provider with an unclear value proposition and fragmented online presence, needing a 60+ page website without interrupting business as usual.
Intervention
Ran user interviews and clarity audits to define real pain points.
Developed a messaging architecture across every service line.
Rewrote jargon-heavy content into conversion-focused UX copy.
Outcomes
Reduced sales-call duration by 20% by clarifying the service proposition, enabling faster deal closure.
Enabled scalable marketing aligned with sales enablement needs.
Selected outputs
Rebuilt website and value proposition
Campaign and EDM system
20%
Shorter sales calls, faster closes
60+
Pages delivered
<4 mo
Delivery, BAU uninterrupted
Value proposition
Messaging architecture
UX writing
Sales enablement
Trafalgar Fire · A Trafalgar Group business
Transforming the Customer Journey
Customers and support teams were navigating 300+ inconsistent pieces of collateral to answer basic technical questions.
Trafalgar Fire and Trafalgar Safety are two facets of the same Trafalgar Group transformation, not separate employers.
Challenge
300+ collateral pieces confusing customers and support teams, multiple inconsistent technical documentation formats, and a disjointed information architecture limiting growth.
Intervention
Built a centralised digital hub consolidating every resource.
Standardised technical manuals into a single source of truth.
Produced interactive installation videos reachable by on-product QR codes.
Optimised the experience for mobile, where 78% of traffic sat.
Outcomes
Reduced customer confusion and technical support calls.
Improved onboarding efficiency and customer satisfaction.
Selected outputs
Centralised digital hub launch
Standardised technical manuals
Product range and packaging
300%
Website traffic increase
300
QR code scans monthly
78%
Mobile traffic served
Information architecture
Technical content
Customer journey
Mobile UX
Trafalgar Safety · A Trafalgar Group business
Website Pivot Amidst Merger
Two acquisitions had merged into one catalogue where 60+ near-identical pallet variations made choosing impossible.
Same group-wide transformation as Trafalgar Fire, applied to the acquired safety businesses.
Challenge
Integrating two of the group's three acquisitions within Trafalgar Safety, with 60+ similar pallet variations, a limited e-commerce interface and no unified product positioning.
Intervention
Ran a content audit to identify genuine differentiators.
Streamlined navigation down to four customisable core products.
Built interactive product pages with configuration dropdowns.
Unified brand identity across the acquired businesses.
Outcomes
Enhanced user control through product customisation.
Clear, consistent brand presence across acquisitions.
Selected outputs
Consolidated product range
Interactive product configurator
Multi-million
Government contract linked to improved UX
60+ → 4
Variations to core configurable products
Post-merger integration
Product architecture
E-commerce UX
Brand
Senior School Administrator – Marketing and Events · School of Computing, Engineering & Mathematics, Western Sydney University · Aug 2013–Aug 2017
Innovation, Events & Engagement Programs
Event capacity and budget were fixed, while demand for brand awareness, student recruitment and industry engagement kept rising.
Challenge
Limited event capacity and budget alongside growing demands for brand awareness, student recruitment and stakeholder engagement.
Intervention
Connected SME demand for timely R&D, government innovation funding, student retention and university Advancement revenue into one operating model.
Convened SMEs and academics to co-design the programme, then led approvals through the Faculty Dean, Legal and Advancement.
Established sponsorship, IP and student agreements, embedding real SME R&D briefs into assessed coursework.
Replaced manual enrolment data entry with a digital process, reducing administration by 80% while more than doubling event capacity.
Aligned programs for multi-use of staffing, venues and catering within the existing budget.
Delivered immersive experiences including VR demonstrations, robotics showcases, solar car projects and women in STEM initiatives.
Outcomes
Led the SME-sponsored innovation program, connecting more than 300 students with SMEs and government grant programs and generating approximately $50,000.
Gave each participating SME more than 20 student-generated solutions per challenge.
Student evaluations were significantly stronger, with very few, if any, subsequent transfers after placement in the cohort's third-last semester.
Evaluated success through student, SME and academic satisfaction surveys; additional academics requested participation in later semesters.
Delivered a recruitment campaign lifting UAC preferences for an at-risk program by 30%, and created a sustainable pipeline of innovation partnerships.
Selected outputs
Laser Wizard SME Innovation Awards
Applied STEM engagement and solar-car program
50 → 104
Annual events, same budget
1,200 → 7,000+
Program participation
80%
Administration reduced
+30%
UAC preferences, at-risk program
Operating systems
Industry partnerships
Program design
Events at scale
Recruitment
Academy Access Coordinator (Recruitment Manager) – Higher Duties Secondment · The Academy, Western Sydney University · Dec 2014–Jan 2016
Academy Access — Recruitment & Enrolment Growth
A strong access and scholarship program was almost invisible to the schools and faculties that fed it.
Challenge
Low enrolment volume and limited recognition across the university and its feeder schools.
Intervention
Rebuilt recruitment positioning and messaging across schools, faculties and internal stakeholders.
Designed and ran a targeted recruitment and conversion campaign across the enrolment funnel.
Outcomes
Established the program as a recognised pathway across its target audience.
15 → 45
Enrolments tripled
100%
Brand recognition in target audience
300%
Recruitment conversion increase
Positioning
Funnel conversion
Recruitment campaign
Synthesis
What this work shows
01
Diagnosing the real business problem
Before campaigns or platforms, the work starts by finding where value is being lost — usually in how the organisation explains itself, not in what it makes.
02
Translating complex capability into customer value
Technical catalogues, research programs and service lines rewritten so a buyer can understand the offer in one pass.
03
Building cross-functional operating systems
Governance, agreements, content architecture and process design that keep working after the launch, across legal, academic, sales and delivery teams.
04
Delivering measurable results
Traffic, conversion, enrolments, contract wins and administrative cost — each case carries a number that survived verification.
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