Currently leading the unified platform redesign at TechInsights for our company
goal of 100k new users in 2023. A versatile results-driven designer with 20+ years
experience developing interactive and conversion-based solutions for Walmart, McDonald’s, Sobeys, Allergan, Accor Hotels, and Canadian banking giants Scotiabank, RBC, and CIBC.
EXPERIENCE
TechInsights | 2021 – Present
Senior UX Designer, Team Lead
Nexus Communications | 2006 – 2021
Senior UX Designer
UX Team Lead
Additional roles held
Designlab | July 2019 – Present
UX Design Mentor
Pathrise | August 2021 – July 2022
Admissions Specialist
22nd Century Mindware | 2005 – 2007 | Contract Flash Designer and Developer
Laurentian Media | 2005 – 2006 | Front-end Designer and Developer
Nexus Graphics | 1997 – 2005 | Co-Founder, Visual Designer, and Developer
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Cambrian College of Applied Arts and Technology
Visual and Creative Arts
Sudbury Ontario
MIT Management Executive Education
Innovation of Products and Services: MIT’s Approach to Design Thinking
RESEARCH
User Interviews
Usability Testing
Heuristic Evaluation
Competitive Analysis
DESIGN
UX/UI Design
Visual Design
Design Systems
Information Architecture
Personas
Journey Mapping
Storyboarding
Rapid Prototyping
Wireframes
TOOLKIT
Adobe Creative Suite:
Illustrator
Photoshop
InDesign
Animate
Prototyping:
Invision
Figma
Adobe XD
Zeplin
Development:
HTML/CSS
JavaScript
WordPress