Aiden Cole
Operations & Supply Chain Analyst
Manchester, UK · aiden.cole@email.com · +44 7700 900123 · linkedin.com/in/aidencole
Summary
Operations analyst with 5 years' experience across logistics and retail, specialising in demand forecasting and vendor performance. Turns messy inventory data into forecasts and process changes that hold up under peak-season pressure.
Experience
- Reduced average warehouse fulfilment time 18% by redesigning pick-path logic across 3 regional depots
- Built a weekly demand-forecasting model in Python that cut safety-stock costs by £140k a year
- Ran vendor SLA reviews for 22 suppliers, lifting on-time delivery from 87% to 96%
- Automated the monthly inventory reconciliation process, saving the team roughly 30 hours a month
- Partnered with finance to rebuild the cost-allocation model used across 40 stores
- Trained 12 new starters on the WMS platform and standard operating procedures
Education
Skills
Demand forecasting, SQL, Python (pandas), Power BI, SAP, vendor management, process mapping, Six Sigma
Certifications
Six Sigma Green Belt — ASQ, 2021 · APICS CPIM Part 1, 2023
Languages
English (Native) · French (Professional working proficiency)
Projects
Depot Rebalancing Model — Linear-programming model (Python, PuLP) to rebalance stock across depots, adopted company-wide; cut cross-depot transfer costs 12%.
Product designer with 6 years across fintech and healthtech, turning ambiguous problems into shipped, measurable design systems.
Experience
Senior Product Designer
Northfield Health- Redesigned the patient intake flow, cutting completion time from 11 to 4 minutes
- Built and maintain the company's design system across 4 product teams
- Ran fortnightly usability testing that shaped 3 major roadmap decisions
Product Designer
Vela Finance- Designed the onboarding flow for a savings app, lifting activation 22%
- Partnered with 2 engineers to ship a component library adopted app-wide
Projects
Wren — personal budgeting app
Designed and shipped the full mobile flow solo; ~800 active users.
Jonah Cole
Brand & Creative Director
London, UK · jonah.cole@email.com · +44 7700 900789 · jonahcole.studio
Summary
Creative director with 9 years building brand identities for hospitality and music clients, from first sketch through to launch campaign.
Experience
Creative Director
2021 – Present- Led rebrands for 3 hospitality groups, growing average revenue-per-cover 14% post-launch
- Directed a 6-person creative team across brand, motion and print
- Pitched and won £1.2m in new business over 18 months
Art Director
2017 – 2021- Designed album art and tour visuals for 14 releases, two reaching UK Top 40
- Built the label's first brand guidelines, adopted across all sub-labels
Projects
Ember — independent type foundry
Two released typefaces; one licensed by a Fortune 500 brand.
Skills
Education
BA (Hons) Graphic Communication
Central Saint Martins, 2013 – 2016
Certifications
D&AD New Blood Award, 2016
Languages
English — Native
Italian — Fluent
Eleanor Cole
Chief Operating Officer
London, UK · eleanor.cole@email.com · +44 7700 900654 · linkedin.com/in/eleanorcole
Summary
Chief Operating Officer with 15 years scaling mid-market manufacturing businesses through acquisition and operational turnaround, currently overseeing a 400-person organisation across 3 sites.
Experience
- Directed the integration of 2 acquisitions, growing combined revenue from £38m to £71m in 4 years
- Cut group-wide operating costs 9% through a shared-services restructure across 3 sites
- Sit on the board; report directly to the CEO on group strategy and capital allocation
- Led a plant turnaround that returned the site to profitability within 14 months
- Built the executive team's first rolling operational forecast, adopted group-wide
Education
Skills
P&L ownership, M&A integration, operational strategy, board reporting, change management, manufacturing
Certifications
Chartered Management Institute — Level 7 Diploma, 2015
Languages
English (Native) · Mandarin (Conversational)
Selected Initiatives
Shared Services Rollout — Designed and led the group's shared-services model (finance, HR, procurement) across 3 sites, unlocking £2.1m in annual savings.
Priya Cole
backend engineer · distributed systems
manchester, uk · priya.cole@dev.io · github.com/priyacole · +44 7700 900234
Summary
Backend engineer with 6 years building high-throughput payment systems in Go and Python. Comfortable owning a service from design doc through on-call.
Experience
- Rebuilt the settlement pipeline in Go, cutting p99 latency from 900ms to 140ms
- Led migration of 40+ services from EC2 to Kubernetes with zero customer-facing downtime
- On-call lead for the payments team; wrote the incident-review process now used company-wide
- Built the internal feature-flag service now used by 12 teams
- Cut CI pipeline time from 22 to 6 minutes by parallelising the test suite
Education
Skills
Certifications
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate, 2023
Languages
English (Native) · Hindi (Native)
Projects
openledger — open-source double-entry ledger library (Go), 600+ GitHub stars, used in 3 production fintech systems.
Wren Cole
Senior Features Editor
London, UK · wren.cole@email.com · +44 7700 900876 · wrencole.press
Senior features editor with 8 years commissioning and writing long-form journalism on culture and technology for national mastheads, read by more than two million people a month.
Experience
- Commission and edit 15–20 long-form features a month across culture, technology and politics
- Grew the features section's monthly readership from 400k to 1.1m
- Manage a team of 4 staff writers and a rotating pool of freelancers
- Wrote 120+ published features; three shortlisted for the British Journalism Awards
- Led a 6-month investigation into regional housing policy, cited in a parliamentary committee report
Notable Work
The Quiet Coast — a 6-part narrative series on coastal erosion; adapted into a BBC Radio 4 documentary.
Education
BA English Literature
University of Edinburgh, 2013 – 2016
Skills
Certifications
NCTJ Diploma in Journalism, 2017
Languages
English (Native)
Spanish (Professional)
Site electrician with 6 years across domestic and commercial installs, currently leading a 3-person crew on new-build housing sites.
Experience
- Lead electrician on a 140-home new-build site, supervising 3 apprentices
- Cut snagging call-backs 40% by introducing a pre-handover testing checklist
- Liaise directly with site managers and building control on inspection sign-off
- Completed 200+ domestic rewires and consumer unit upgrades
- Trained 4 first-year apprentices on site safety and testing procedure
Projects
Grange Road Retrofit
Led the electrical first-fix and second-fix on a 12-unit retrofit, completed 2 weeks ahead of schedule.
Enterprise account executive with 6 years selling B2B SaaS, consistently closing above quota across a portfolio of mid-market and enterprise accounts.
Experience
- Closed £4.2m in new and expansion revenue across 42 accounts in 2023
- Grew average deal size 28% by shifting focus to multi-year enterprise contracts
- Mentor 2 junior AEs on discovery and negotiation
- Ranked #2 of 24 AEs company-wide for 2020 new-business bookings
- Built the team's first competitive-displacement playbook, adopted company-wide
Key Wins
Grafton Retail
An 18-month, £900k enterprise deal that became the company's largest logo win of 2023.
Nora Cole
Industrial Designer
Summary 01
Industrial designer with 7 years developing consumer electronics from concept sketch to tooling, with a focus on sustainable materials.
Experience 02
- Led design of a modular charging system now shipping in 9 countries
- Reduced average product BOM cost 11% through material consolidation across 3 product lines
- Manage relationships with 4 manufacturing partners across Switzerland and Taiwan
- Designed 6 shipped consumer products from concept through DFM
- Built the studio's first sustainable-materials reference library
Selected Work 03
Loop
A modular desk charger made from 70% recycled aluminium; winner, Swiss Design Award 2022.
Education 04
MA Industrial Design
ECAL Lausanne, 2014 – 2016
Skills 05
Certifications 06
Autodesk Certified Professional, 2019
Languages 07
German (Native) · English (Fluent) · French (Conversational)
Theo Cole
Motion Designer
Glasgow, UK · theo.cole@email.com · +44 7700 900432 · theocole.studio
Summary
Motion designer with 5 years creating brand and product animation for tech and entertainment clients, from storyboard through final render.
Experience
- Directed motion identity for 3 app launches, each featured on the App Store
- Cut average turnaround on client animatics from 5 days to 2 with a modular After Effects rig
- Mentor 2 junior motion designers
- Delivered 60+ social and broadcast animations for 14 clients
- Built the studio's first reusable motion-graphics template library
Projects
Pulse
A personal 2-minute short exploring generative motion, screened at 2 festivals.
Skills
Education
BA Animation
Glasgow School of Art, 2015 – 2018
Certifications
Adobe Certified Expert — After Effects, 2021
Languages
English (Native) · Gaelic (Conversational)
Sasha Cole
Cloud Solutions Architect
Summary
Cloud solutions architect with 8 years designing and migrating enterprise workloads to Azure, currently leading a 12-person architecture practice inside a Microsoft Gold Partner.
Experience
- Led Azure migration for 40+ enterprise clients, moving over 2,000 VMs with zero unplanned downtime
- Designed the firm's Well-Architected Framework review process, now run on every engagement
- Manage a 12-person architecture practice and own the Microsoft partnership relationship
- Delivered 15+ Microsoft 365 and Azure AD tenant migrations for mid-market clients
- Built the firm's first Infrastructure-as-Code template library (Bicep/Terraform), cutting deployment time 60%
Projects
Contoso Retail Migration
Led the end-to-end Azure migration for a 3,000-employee retailer, consolidating 6 data centres into Azure and cutting infrastructure spend 34%.
Education
BSc Computer Science
University of Reading, 2012 – 2016
Skills
Certifications
Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert · Microsoft Certified: Azure DevOps Engineer Expert
Languages
English (Native) · Portuguese (Conversational)