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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)
- 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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Adobe Creative Suite
I grew up with most of Adobe's products, and effectively complete design projects in most of Adobe’s creative suite.
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