About Me

I graduated in 2004 with a Bachelors degree in English Literature from the University of Exeter in the UK. At that time, I wanted to pursue a career in publishing. After a spell with a business to business publisher as an advertising and editorial manager, I moved to Japan in 2006 to try English language teaching and experience living abroad. At that time, I began learning Japanese.

After a couple of years of teaching, I worked for Gaba Corporation on the Academic Development department for ten years. This job let me combine my editorial and language learning interests. I was manager of the section from 2012 until 2018. I worked on interesting projects at that time and some are listed here in my portfolio.

In 2018 I took a role working for the Japanese e-commerce company, Rakuten, as project manager for an email security implementation. I then joined the British Council in Tokyo to work on their conference series for language assessment, eventually moving back to the UK in 2022 to take up a programme manager role. I left the British Council in 2026.

Along the way I learnt more about computer science and programming, and began to build my own language learning products. In 2025 I began building context-japanese.com. It is an ai-powered language learning application designed to facilitate immersive reading experience for learners of Japanese. I am keen to learn as I build and keep improving it to make the best language learning tools possible.

Career Highlights:

• Led development of an online learning system for 20K+ learners including iOS, web, and Android applications.
• Increased revenue 400% on an iOS app implementing data-led product iteration.
• Scaled an academic conference series, securing a partnership with a global tech leader.