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Dashboard Designer | Front end designer
Darren Sacks
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LONDON, United Kingdom
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Specialise in visual story telling through the use of dashboards and data visualisation in order to communicate impactful and meaningful insights. Consulted across various industries (Banking, Health Insurance, Fintech, Advertising) led teams and worked with some of the worlds’ most influential brands (Lloyds Bank, BMW, Investec, Vitality Health). I have strong stakeholder management skills which were vital in my last consulting role at one of the UK's biggest banks to design the UI for a new Business Intelligence portal for them.
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United Kingdom
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Language
English
Fluently
Ready for
Larger project
Ongoing relation / part-time
Full time contractor
Available
My experience
2018 - 2019
job
Information Designer
Mudano.
Conceptualised and designed a new strategic dashboard solution for one of the UK's leading banking groups. This solution is used by high-level stakeholders to make pivotal decisions impacting the future of the bank.
Helped identify key insights within the data, understood if these were relevant to the overall story and communicated these in a clear and impactful way. Worked with Tableau developers to build the final solution
Key achievements - designed a streamlined, easier to use BI portal enabling stakeholders to make quicker more informed decisions with increased insight
Helped identify key insights within the data, understood if these were relevant to the overall story and communicated these in a clear and impactful way. Worked with Tableau developers to build the final solution
Key achievements - designed a streamlined, easier to use BI portal enabling stakeholders to make quicker more informed decisions with increased insight
Adobe Illustrator, Frontend designer, Data Visualisation
2016 - 2018
job
Data Visualisation Manager
Populus Data Solutions.
Developed a complete dashboard offering with impactful visuals
Produced catalogues, pitch decks, pricing structures and templates for this new dashboard offering
Assisted in the winning of various major accounts (Charlotte Tilbury, Three, National Lottery, Kerry Foods)
Implemented a project system to increase efficiency when dealing with new briefs
Key achievements - Developed a dashboard product that gave PDS a USP in the market, ran a dashboard team and turned the dashboard solution into a profitable stand alone product
Produced catalogues, pitch decks, pricing structures and templates for this new dashboard offering
Assisted in the winning of various major accounts (Charlotte Tilbury, Three, National Lottery, Kerry Foods)
Implemented a project system to increase efficiency when dealing with new briefs
Key achievements - Developed a dashboard product that gave PDS a USP in the market, ran a dashboard team and turned the dashboard solution into a profitable stand alone product
Manager
2015 - 2016
job
Data Visualisation Manager
Missing Link.
Won the visualisation contract for one of South Africa's biggest banks rolling out across Africa over a three-month period. This turned into a continued lucrative relationship between Missing Link and the client.
Implemented a productivity and cost analysis dashboard, which allowed owner to understand company performance.
Key achievements - Assisted in the winning of a key banking client, rolled out an African wide data visualisation project and increased productivity in the business by 25%
Implemented a productivity and cost analysis dashboard, which allowed owner to understand company performance.
Key achievements - Assisted in the winning of a key banking client, rolled out an African wide data visualisation project and increased productivity in the business by 25%
Adobe Illustrator, Frontend designer, Data Visualisation
2014 - 2015
job
Data Visualisation Executive
Discovery Health.
Designed various confidential dashboards for board members providing vital insight thereby assisting their decision making process on key healthcare products and projects
Key achievements - Designed key operational reports for high-level stakeholders and improved the reporting standard. Improved report compilation process of long-standing report - compilation time decreased by 33%
Key achievements - Designed key operational reports for high-level stakeholders and improved the reporting standard. Improved report compilation process of long-standing report - compilation time decreased by 33%
Adobe Illustrator, Frontend designer, Data Visualisation
2013 - 2014
freelance
Consultant
unknown.
Data Visualisation and infographics
2013 - 2013
freelance
Data Visualisation Consultant
Investec Bank.
Created visualisations for Voyage Onboarding program. This customer journey project enabled executives to see where their successes were coming from and where the program needed improvement
Investec High 5 Dashboard - high profile project during a time of transition in strategy for the bank. This dashboard enabled the close monitoring of where funds from high net worth clients were moving on a weekly basis. High-level decisions were made off the back of this
dashboard.
Key achievements - Designed and managed dashboard that informed key stakeholders where hundreds of millions of Rands were moving weekly. Designed the on-boarding visualisations for Investec's new product. Designed global strategic visualisation report for
head of UK banking business
Investec High 5 Dashboard - high profile project during a time of transition in strategy for the bank. This dashboard enabled the close monitoring of where funds from high net worth clients were moving on a weekly basis. High-level decisions were made off the back of this
dashboard.
Key achievements - Designed and managed dashboard that informed key stakeholders where hundreds of millions of Rands were moving weekly. Designed the on-boarding visualisations for Investec's new product. Designed global strategic visualisation report for
head of UK banking business
Adobe Illustrator, Frontend designer, Data Visualisation
2011 - 2013
freelance
Freelance
BMW Pitch Presentation.
Data Visualisation and infographics
C, Infographic
My education
2006
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2009
n/a
BA Honours, Brand Management
BA Honours, Brand Management
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