Hi, I’m Destiny. A Californian-born, Gold Coast–based digital marketer and developer with a project-management foundation, an SEO speciality, and a habit of building things end to end.
Origin
California, USA
Based
Gold Coast, QLD AU
Education
M. Project Management
Years
8+ in digital
01
Origin
California to Australia
Born and raised in California, I moved to Australia to pursue an education and a professional career. At twenty-two I’d finished a Master of Project Management and from there, made a point of getting genuinely good at every industry I stepped into.
02
Industries
A working portfolio
I’ve managed residential construction projects. I’ve helped launch an online clothing company. I’ve worked cross-divisionally as the senior SEO & website manager for a swimwear brand. These days, I run some of Australia’s largest e-commerce SEO campaigns.
Get the brief right, find the system the work actually needs, and build it properly.
03
Method
Working across cultures
Having worked with clients from all over the world, I’d attribute most of what’s worked to three things: acute insight, common sense, and effective communication.
04
Approach
Translating the complex
With a background in project management and a real passion for marketing and the digital world, my expertise sits in a specific gap. Taking complex theories and translating them into executable ideas a small team can actually run with.
From start-up entrepreneur to technical SEO and marketing wiz, I’ve curated a deliberate skill set: digital marketing, business development, logistics & procurement, stakeholder communication, and a keen interest in automation.
03 — Disciplines
The curated skill set.
Twelve practices
A-01
Digital Marketing
Strategy, channels, and the funnel from awareness through retention.
A-02
Technical SEO
Crawl, index, render. The unsexy half of search — usually the half that’s broken.
A-03
E-Comm SEO
Catalogue architecture, faceted nav, schema, and category-page craft.
A-04
Enterprise SEO
Running search at scale for some of Australia’s largest e-commerce sites.
B-01
Project Management
A Master’s worth of foundation. The reason projects actually ship.
B-02
Business Development
Pipeline, partnerships, and turning conversations into engagements.
B-03
Stakeholder Comms
The unglamorous skill that makes every other one possible.
B-04
Logistics & Procurement
A surprisingly useful background when running e-commerce campaigns.
C-01
Website Development
Shopify, WordPress, custom. The build half of the practice.
C-02
Content Strategy
What to write, when, where it lives, and what it’s meant to do.
C-03
Data & Analytics
GA4, Search Console, dashboards that actually get read.
C-04
Automation
A keen interest. Less spreadsheet labour, more thinking time.
04 — Selected experience
A working timeline.
Selected · Not exhaustive
2022 → Current
Head of SEO
Princess Polly
Overseeing the global SEO & AEO campaign for womens fashion retailer across US, AU, UK, & emerging markets
SEO
Web
Strategy
2022 → Current
Consulting
Destiny Flaherty — Gold Coast, AU
Running SEO programmes, websites, and digital strategy for a small roster of e-commerce and service businesses across AU, US, and UK.
SEO
Web
Strategy
2022 → '23
Digital Agency
Gold Coast, AU
Working with some of Australians largest ecommerce brands for their Global SEO strategy
SEO
Web
Strategy
2020 — ’22
Senior SEO & Website Manager
Australian swimwear brand
Cross-divisional role owning the website roadmap, organic search programme, and CMS migrations. Worked across marketing, merchandising, and dev.
E-Comm
Shopify
Enterprise
2018 — ’20
SEO Manager
Service Based Digital Agency
Oversaw local and national service-based businesses in Australia for organic growth
Local SEO
GBP
SEO
2016 — ’18
Residential Project Manager
Construction · Gold Coast
First professional role out of the Master’s. Stakeholder communication on hard problems, programme management, and learning how things actually get built.
PM
Stakeholders
2014 — ’16
Master of Project Management
Australian university
Finished at twenty-two. The foundation that quietly underpins everything since — frameworks, scope discipline, and how to keep a programme moving when the brief shifts.
Education
Enough about me though.
Let’s talk about what you’re building. The best briefs land as a paragraph in an inbox at 11pm. Go ahead.