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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.

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.
• 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