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Victoria, BC, CA

Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

• Champion the communication and collaboration with a cross-functional Agile team of designers, developers, and other technical roles.
• Identify opportunities for optimization and experience improvement within existing services.
• Understand user needs and identify where separate interactions with the user should act as one service

Canada, Remote

• Design and facilitate an online course and community that uses design principles to collaboratively understand and solve problems. Participants shift careers, learn, and explore passions.
• Collect iterative feedback to co-design course content, accessibility, user experience, community connection, and engagement.

Remote

• Conduct user research using a variety of qualitative and quantitative research methods.
• Conduct user testing of design concepts and prototypes.
• Facilitate team decision-making work cross-functionally with design, product management, content strategy, engineering, and marketing to identify research topics that will drive product development.

Canada

• Conduct contextual interviews, surveys, co-design sessions, concept validation, and usability testing to connect users to the website and community. YouTube channel increased from 100k to 340k subscribers since 2019.
• Create user flows, customer journey maps, sitemaps, wireframes, mood boards, and visual design layouts to communicate user needs and direction.
• Facilitate workshops and design thinking sessions to solve challenges, ideate, and test solutions.

Sooke, British Columbia, Canada

• Conducted interviews and focus groups with youth in Sooke.
• Created, distributed, and analyzed a digital and paper survey completed by 224 youth aged 10-18.

Cambodia, Colombia, Guatemala, Peru

• Co-designed sustainable long-term volunteer projects with local communities.
• Collaborated with Canadian universities to design dynamic experiential education programming, in-country safety assessments, budgets, documentation, and evaluations.
• Facilitated meaningful discussions and mind-blowing workshops that challenge participants to think critically about motives, actions, and what it means to make a difference.

Saanichton, BC

• Led a team of health employees and volunteers with 5000 youth programming hours per year, creation of a youth health clinic, and 6 multi-day youth trips per year.
• Designed all youth programming, fundraising, statistics, grant writing, evaluation, and budgeting for a $150,000/year program.

Dharamsala, India

• Secured partners, funding, and sponsorship to purchase recording equipment in Canada and establish a studio space in India.
• Engaged funders and participants in India, Canada, and around the world through social media.
• Designed and facilitated digital music production workshops.

Gift Lake Metis Settlement, Gregoire Lake First Nations, Edmonton, AB

• Promoted resiliency, positive self-image and healthy lifestyles with youth in remote Indigenous communities.
• Focused on music as a means of promoting positive changes, working with indigenous youth to compose, record, and remix original works.
• Communicated between the government of Alberta, sponsors, community, and youth to translate directives, successes, and challenges to all stakeholders.

Bachelor Of Professional Communication, Professional Communication, Cumulative Gpa: 3.88

Activities and Societies: Presidents Scholar Award: Earned a cumulative GPA that meets or exceeds the average of the top 10 percent for.

Certificate In Web Design, Web Page, Digital/Multimedia And Information Resources Design

• Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator training. Creating comprehensive websites, graphic elements, and logos. • HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.