WORKPLACE

DESIGN & BUILD.

“James is without question, one of the industry’s leading creative and boundary pushing designers.”

- Laurence Shanks, Creative Director, Oktra

UK based interior designer with a 12 year multi-disciplinary design background. A client facing pitch designer, who is a WELL and Fitwel accredited professional. I have been designing and building work spaces from Fortune 500 companies to start ups. I believe in using a human centred, evidence driven, design approach to help transform cultures and make client’s aspirations a reality.

“His ability to grasp complex project requirements and translate them into innovative design solutions was truly impressive.”

- Adam Al-Shemmeri, Director, CBRE

Work Experience + Design History

My role as a lead designer is to drive the creative output throughout pitch and delivery stages of a project. With the aim of transforming workplaces and driving cultures forward.
A client facing, senior pitch designer role. My job has been to pitch and deliver commercial fit out projects of varying size and complexity. During my time at Oktra I have led the design teams on a number of projects for clients ranging from start ups to FTSE 100 companies. In the past 3 years I have delivered CAT A / CAT+ schemes for landlords, complex ‘cut and carve style CAT B fit out outs, plus a couple of warehouse transformations into state of the art production and office facilities.
Role: Project Designer
Working as an Interior Designer in the Blue Jelly team my job was primarily focused on one of our key accounts- IWG (Regus / Spaces). Across their portfolio of brands, in multiple nationwide locations, it was my job to design and help deliver these co-working spaces and serviced offices.
Role: Project Designer
Brought in on a contract basis, my role as a workplace interior designer was to develop design concepts and put together a pitch document for Brookfield Asset management. The goal of the project was to show their clients how their space at 99 Bishopsgate could offer opportunities to shape their future workplace. Alongside this major project I helped the teams with space planning and visualisation for a number of exiting clients including Sky TV.
Role: Project Designer
In my client facing role, I was responsible for providing design and technical support for the implementation of projects. Ranging from projects for large International brands with project values in the millions, to smaller projects for independant companies. Daily tasks included workplace design, space planning, 3d visualisations, general arrangement drawings and detailed manufacturing drawings. In the past couple of years I have also gained some management experience. Stepping in for the Design Manger when he is away and managing the team and their workloads.