I've been designing and building software for over 14 years with a strong focus on an intuitive and seamless user experience. I'm creative, adaptive, and love to learn. I am motivated by a challenge and love the reward of overcoming obstacles.
Most recently, I worked at Edsby, creating K-12 education software for students, parents, teachers, and administrators. It was my job to unify the learning management and remote learning experience across all four stakeholders. Over my tenure at Edsby, I worked on the initial product idea building it up to its current iteration with over 215 million users worldwide and winning more than 70 awards. I was responsible for the design and front-end development of the product as well as all public-facing materials including the website, marketing materials, case studies, and promotional video content.
Work Experience
2010–Present
Freelance Designer/Developer
GoBanana Design
Extensive experience working with clients across all industries and media. Worked with clients on small projects like single-page websites as well as large-scale projects including print and digital materials from concept to full execution installations.
2020–2022
Scrum Master (CSM)
Edsby
Led a 20+ person engineering team in Agile development. Facilitated relationships with the Product Owner, business team, customer needs, and other stakeholders to ensure a clear and seamless product development process with best practices and user-centred design processes.
Designed and implemented user interfaces of the software to create an easy and pleasant user experience, taking into account market research, user testing, customer needs, and business requirements to iterate through designs for the most effective solutions. Collaborated with the engineering team to ensure implementation of designs and seamless product deployment. Designed, created, and maintained all public-facing marketing materials across different media.
2010–2011
Graphic and Web Designer / Front-End Web Developer
Ingle International
Designed and developed websites for clients, created intuitive user interfaces for web applications, and worked closely with programmers to achieve optimal functionality. Created other materials for the company and its clients, such as interactive flash presentations and print materials.
2008–2011
Web Designer and Technician
York University
Maintained the web sites for the Fine Arts Computing department and Visual Resources Centre. Assisted faculty with technical problems such as setting up new computers and equipment, troubleshot more complicated issues to relay the information to the next level of support.
Skills
Product design
UX/UI design
User research and testing
Wireframing and prototyping
Web development
Branding
Project management
Agile (Scrum) methodologies
Team leadership
Verbal, written, and interpersonal communication
Adobe Creative Suite
Figma
MS Visual Studio
HTML/CSS
Javascript
Contact
I'm currently considering opportunities as a Product Designer or if my skillset matches the missing puzzle piece to your project I'm available for freelance work.
