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<img src="/icons/heart_pink.svg" alt="/icons/heart_pink.svg" width="40px" /> Welcome to my Notion resume!
I'm a Product and UX Designer based in Montréal with +10 years of experience in design in web and tech. My mission is to contribute to productivity solutions in complex or nuanced sectors.
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Other flavours of me
🖼️ UX Case Studies
:linkedin: LinkedIn
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👩🏻💻 Work experience
Lead Product Designer
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- Co-led new product development of a web-based collaboration tool for the audio industry
- Held stakeholder interviews with founder and product owner to understand business goals and intended outcomes
- Designed wireframes and user flows that clarified the app’s primary and secondary tasks, enabling stakeholders to visualize and align on main features
- Advanced the app to a proof-of-concept stage, shipped high-fidelity mockups and prototypes, facilitating developer handoffs and user testing activities
- Participated in daily communications, ensuring alignment and understanding between technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Developed the brand visual identity, creating a distinctive theme differentiating the product from competitors
- Conducted moderated usability testing sessions with participants to gain qualitative insights on areas of improvement for the MVP
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Freelance Web and Graphic Designer
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- Breakstep Group
Remote (October 2024 to present)
- Designed a pitch deck for a product concept for presentation to prospective investors
- Designed digital illustrations and vector art to accompany presentations
- Re-designed landing page for life coaching consultancy, establishing a new colour palette to create consistency and continuity between separate services offered by the consultant
- Designed digital illustrations to create overarching theme for each service offered
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Lead UX/UI Designer
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- Syntronic
Ottawa (July 2022 to November 2023)
- Established UX processes for the relatively new software studio, educating peers and stakeholders on best practises and the value of UX through documentation, mentorship and by example, i.e. executing on my own design thinking process
- Led the design for a digital transformation of a sterilization business, transitioning their work order processing from paper to digital, ensuring compliance with global safety regulations
- Launched pilot web app for 11 sites globally, marking a significant step in the client’s digital transformation
- Collaborated with engineers and product managers to develop a new platform from scratch
- Conducted bi-weekly user interviews, gaining insights into user pain points and to tailor design improvements
- Engaged with stakeholders to brainstorm solutions, ensuring designs met project requirements and user expectations
- Solo designer to create wireframes and user flows to final designs in Figma, driving project vision from concept to execution
- Daily communications with engineering and product management to maintain requirements alignment and navigate technical challenges
- Organized bi-weekly design reviews to gather and integrate stakeholder feedback, refining product features and functionality
- Worked closely with the project team to interpret and implement feedback, optimizing designs to meet stakeholder needs and project constraints
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UI Designer
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- Performed design audits on the Autonomous Network Manager app to help enhance UX and identify UX related bugs
- Initiated development of the design system to improve design process efficiency, documentation clarity, and design consistency across the application
- Led design of new features from concept to high-fidelity and enhanced existing features, collaborating with engineers to ensure technical feasibility
- Introduced an Alarms Inspector feature that enabled technicians to pinpoint and resolve network issues quicker and improve overall diagnostic speed
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UX/UI Designer
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- Pioneered development of the company’s first UI design system, standardising design practices across teams, serving as a guide for design project consistency
- Elevated the role and influence of user experience design through conducting challenging discussions among peers and managers
- Initiated and implemented documentation processes, capturing knowledge to improve onboarding and information retrieval across departments
- Designed and implemented landing page templates to help improve efficiency in designing for marketing projects and upcoming events
- Produced graphic assets to support email and social media marketing campaigns, aimed at enhancing brand visibility and engagement
- Contributed to sustaining user engagement engagement throughout COVID-19 through audio/visual post-production efforts for podcast and video series
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Earlier experiences
🛠 Skills
💻 Technology
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Figma
A huge part of my daily routine in design system development, wireframes, high fidelity mockups and prototyping.
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