Summary
Philip Middlemass is a digital leader with nearly a decade of senior experience shaping product design and digital capability across DWP Digital, where he’s driven user-centred transformation for services used by over 22 million UK citizens. He builds and scales multidisciplinary product professions—product management, business analysis, accessibility and design—through targeted recruitment, L&D and communities of practice aligned to the DDaT framework and GOV.UK standards. A former creative director, he pairs agency-honed UX, branding and front-end skills with strategic public-sector delivery, having led work for major brands and complex government services. Hands-on with Node.js, React/Preact and Raspberry Pi projects, he remains a practitioner who runs workshops, commissions user research and champions continuous customer involvement.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Belmont School, Durham
Durham Sixth Form
Media Technology & Production Web Page Digital/Multimedia and Information Resources Design, Media Technology & Production Web Page Digital/Multimedia and Information Resources Design at Teesside University