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Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Spearhead competitive analysis, synthesizing over 400+ data points to identify product strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities for improvement. • Lead user interviews; synthesizing 2500+ research insights to uncover user needs, behaviors, and pain points.• Construct personas, map user journeys, user flows, and design concepts, leveraging a user-centred approach and accessible and inclusive design principles to drive impactful and intuitive user experiences.• Lead the development of wireframes, prototypes, and pixel-perfect high-fidelity mock-ups utilizing rigorous design research and intuitive design sense, and continuously iterating based on user and team feedback. • Deliver design documentation and thoroughly review feature implementation, test plans, documentation, and communicate design specifications to ensure accuracy of desired outcomes. • Build comprehensive design systems, style guides, and pattern libraries. • Create compelling branding and visual assets including logos, icons, illustrations, storyboards, and presentations.• Co-create a guided journaling app poised for acquisition by a multi-billion-dollar health company. • Improve mobile app usability by conducting user testing and subsequently implementing insights to address critical user issues, thus resulting in a 30% decrease in errors during key tasks. • Collaborate with Product Lead to craft a product landing page, achieving a 3.2% conversion rate. • Partner with key stakeholders to define product requirements and ensure alignment with business objectives.• Implement a Lean and Agile UX approach, accelerating design iterations and enhancing team collaboration.

Canada

• Successfully deliver 10+ guest workshops for university students on illustration, conceptualization, and business acumen. Adeptly facilitate class critiques, fostering a vibrant learning environment for students to refine their skills through constructive feedback.• Lead 20+ presentations and interactive activities for schools and community events, engaging diverse audiences and effectively conveying information in an accessible and engaging manner.

Greater Toronto Area, Canada

• Create captivating illustrations for diverse clientele, driving audience engagement and yielding substantial increase in social media interest, sales, and visibility of both publications and products.• Collaborate with art directors and designers, utilizing visual design theory and illustration best practices to conceptualize ideas that achieve project objectives and effectively convey concepts to target demographics. • Manage multiple projects simultaneously, meeting deadlines and delivering high-quality work that meets client expectations and exceeds industry standards, earning 12+ awards in the fields of illustration and design. • Select clients: AUDI, TAXI, Apple, Reader’s Digest Canada, Sleeping Bear Press, Orca Book Publishers, The Walrus, The Smithsonian, Brookfield Institute, UHN.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Produced editorial pieces and graphics and oversaw social media channels, resulting in increased engagement with digital and print content, and increase in Project 40 quarterly publication sales. • Undertook grant writing to secure program funding, obtaining $10,000 in Ontario Arts Council funding. • Collaborated with artists to curate compelling exhibitions and events, fostering community engagement and expanding artistic opportunities to establish the Collective as a prominent cultural hub in Toronto.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Maintained knowledge of sales, promotions, payment policies, exchanges, and security practices.• Completed all cleaning, stocking and organizing tasks in assigned sales area.• Contributed to team success by exceeding team sales goals. • Documented and responded to all customer inquiries and comments thoroughly and professionally.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Researched the exhibiting artists and prepared a write-up on the exhibited pieces.• Greeted gallery visitors and provided information on the exhibition, artists, and their works. • Engaged gallery visitors in thoughtful discussion about the exhibited works. • Supervised the exhibition space in order to maintain safety of the artwork and of visitors, and enforced the rules and etiquette of the gallery when necessary. • Installed and de-installed artworks and assisted with event set-up.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Collaborated with program coordinators and fellow student ambassadors to develop a hands-on, experiential program to improve our Japanese exchange students' reading, writing, and speaking abilities in English. • Successfully improved student participation in the classroom through integration of creative role- playing exercises with traditional teaching methods. • Fostered meaningful relationships with the students through games, guided field-trips across Toronto, and team projects.

Ontario College Graduate Certificate, Digital Product Design

Bachelor Of Design With Distinction, Illustration

Education record