GarageMate
Summary
Digital tool for automotive maintenance scheduling and cost tracking
I'm a multidisciplinary Product Designer with 8 years of experience designing digital tools across Africa, Europe, and APAC. I have built end to end systems in fintech, compliance, logistics, and edtech, Curious individual who loves solving challenges, spotting patterns, and creating systems - especially in emerging markets. Currently exploring backend systems like Elixir and FastAPI to improve product collaboration.
UX/UI Design, Wireframing, Prototyping, Design Systems, User Testing.
Research & Strategy, Information Architecture, Service Design.
Javascript frameworks (Vue/Nuxt, React/Next), Git, (Currently Learning).
Elixir & Python FastAPI, Docker.
Co-Founder & Product Designer
Highlights
Co-founded a digitized wallet aimed at enhancing budgeting and expenditure tracking through the Antler.
Led user research that informed interface designs and prototypes, implementing iterative feedback cycles to validate core product features.
Developed low and high-fidelity prototypes, conducting user testing to validate and iterate on features.
Navigated challenges resulting in project cessation after 7 weeks, gaining crucial insights
Product Lead
Highlights
Designed and built an automated compliance tool for company secretaries that slashed manual errors by 90% and transformed time-consuming governance processes.
Collaborated with C-suite executives to shape product strategy and roadmap, ensuring development priorities matched critical business objectives and market demands.
Created a comprehensive design library that standardized Ul elements across products, reducing developer handoff time by 35% and ensuring consistent user experience.
Developed 100+ interactive prototypes over 4 years that visualized complex workflows, enabling developers to understand requirements clearly and deliver features ahead of schedule.
Product Designer / UX Developer
Highlights
Developed a comprehensive design library that improved team coordination and user experience.
Mapped Ul requirements to streamline development processes and enhance product scalability.
Led feature prioritization through data-driven iteration, identifying critical issues early and cutting unnecessary development costs by 40%, ensuring successful Q4 product launch while reducing business spend on meetings and non-billable hours.
Product Designer / UX Developer
Highlights
Maintained systems during COVID pandemic, providing ongoing support to regional and international offices in Africa, Europe and Australia/New Zealand.
On call staff for feature additions and bug fixes, ensuring business continuity during global disruption.
Lead Web Developer
Highlights
Built a Health and Safety Compliance portal that helped delegates book, manage course offerings and schedule and matched trainers across UK, New Zealand and Africa.
Led digital operations for regional and international offices as part of an outsourced team and Integrated Digital marketing and promotion strategies that directly increased sales and revenue for the business across the regions..
Account / Project Manager
Highlights
Managed team that branded over 500 retail outlets for major FMCG clients including Coca-Cola, DSTV/GOTV and Diageo & ensured to maintain consistent client communication, providing regular project updates and status reports to the CSuite.
Collaborated with the design team to create market-differentiating branding solutions that gave clients competitive advantage.
BSc
Project Management
Issued By
Product School
Summary
Digital tool for automotive maintenance scheduling and cost tracking
Summary
Inventory management system for small retail businesses