Entrepreneurship Foundations

500 Mentorship Minutes

Speaking Up At Work

I designed various fact sheets, brochures, booklets, and other promotional content for Canadian Red Cross as a Layout Design Technician. My experience at Red Cross helped me design within a strict guideline but also find room for my own creativity. Other than designing within a branding guideline, prioritizing multiple projects and meeting tight deadlines were a key to the job.

Layout Design Technician

Design Buddies is an inclusive online community initially created to help other designers in their careers. https://designbuddies.community

Design Adviser

An online community to interact and share with other XR (AR, VR) enthusiasts.

Public invite link: https://bit.ly/XRdesign

Founder

ADPList is a community based on connection and inclusivity - a platform where people can find, book, and meet mentors around the world. I've been chatting with other designers and students to give career advice and portfolio reviews.

Feel free to book a session with me here: https://bit.ly/adp-list

Mentor

Bachelor of Interaction Design

Founder  |  UX / UI / 3D Designer

Senior UX / XR Designer

I lead the design on a new hotel booking travel startup, HotelDirect. Technology plays a huge role in the evolution of this industry. There are many aspects you need to consider to get ahead of the big players (Expedia and Booking.com) in the market. As the company grew and our user-base scaled, it was important to have a design process that allows for a user-centered approach. I've worked closely with development, business, and marking and set product direction based on stakeholder and user feedback. Unfortunately, HotelDirect was one of many companies that were affected by COVID-19.

- Work closely with the founding team in a fast pace environment 
- Create design system from scratch using Figma
- Determine product direction based on user and stakeholder feedback
- Utilizing 3D to create a unique brand to stand out amongst competitors
- Using FullStory, Facebook & Google analytics, and Mixpanel to track success metrics
            

    
    

    
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Senior UX / UI Designer

Worked closely with the co-founder in the Vancouver office on various startups including ones in the travel/hospitality and gaming space. - Helped launch a cyber security company: CMD (https://cmd.com - $21.6M in funding to date)

- Contribute to high-level strategic decisions with the rest of the product and executive team
- Execute in a fast-paced and highly fluid startup environment where thought and initiative are valued
- Establish and update brand visuals and guidelines
- Collaborated on building early stage projects
            

    
    

    
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Senior UX Designer

- Lead designs for various UI / UX for websites and mobile applications

Freelance UI / UX Designer

Art & Design Tutor

Lead design on multiple projects relating to IoT, enterprise, retail, and Augmented Reality. The job came with management/leadership opportunities and gained valuable insight working with other project leads within the company. 

- Lead a team of designers on an IoT project (Mayfield Robotics)
- Designed a Windows UWP and HoloLens application that solve complex business problems in the oil 
  industry (Enbridge)
- Creating design systems from scratch using Sketch
- Showcase retail products utilizing AR Kit and AR Core (MEC)
- Collaborate on high level RFPs for potential projects
            

    
    

    
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Senior Interaction Designer

Lead design on multiple mobile & web tools for fisheries science and research within North America. Worked remotely with client to create various ways to collect crowd sourced data. Understanding the motivations behind our users and providing them with solutions that catered towards their needs was key.

- Lead UI / UX design of 4 mobile applications and 2 website tools for anglers and hunters
- Created design system from scratch using Sketch and Figma
- Created user flows, wireframes, mockups, prototypes along with conducting user research and field 
   research, testing
            

    
    

    
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UI / UX Designer

Lead multiple IoT & enterprise projects, including Aircards (portable routers), Arlo (security cameras), ReadyNAS (Network Assisted Storage devices), Orbi (mesh network routers), and Insight (enterprise network management platform.

- Create interfaces for multiple mobile, desktop, and IoT devices
- Assist in creating a new design system and applying them to all NETGEAR products to create a consistent 
  and friendly experience
- Create user flows, wireframes, mockups based on requirements and validate through user testing
- Collaborate with multiple vendors in different locations
- Provide interactive prototypes, 3D motion graphics, and animations to demonstrate flows 
  and interactions
            

    
    

    
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Worked with cross-functional team to deliver an internal HR platform for undisclosed global client. The challenge was to create a seemless recruitment management tool. Project was very successful and lead to multiple opportunities with the client.

- Design UI patterns that are appropriate for all device size (desktop, tablet, and mobile)
- Deliver wireframes and visual elements to the front-end developers
- Conduct competitive analysis on existing platforms in the market
- Quality assurance for the developed user interface
            

    
    

    
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Visual Interface Designer

Worked closely with senior UX designer on data visualization and analysis platform for internal customers utilizing SAP Lumira and other tools. Very eye-opening to learn about how UX research is done at scale. Got the opportunity to perform user interviews and analyze results to define design direction.

- Assist in planning and rolling out internal reporting product
- User / business requirement research and provide design solutions
- Perform user interviews and analyze interview results
- Work within a team of developers in an Agile environment
            

    
    

    
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UX Designer

My very first UX / UI opportunity at a local desktop publication startup. The tool we were building were for e-book publishers and were competing against iBooks author, Kobo, etc. Utilized Illustrator and Photoshop for wireframes and mockups, After Effects, Keynote, and Invision for prototypes.

Graphic & Interaction Designer

Helicopter Mechanic

I'm a Vancouver based product designer currently working at Unity designing XR experiences.

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