Jacob C. Email & Phone Number

Ottawa, On, Ca

Ottawa, On, Ca

Ontario, Canada

Design Lead with TryCycle, an Ottawa scale-up building a variety of healthcare services in partnership with indigenous communities, veterans, and folks in addiction recovery. I'm very proud to be part of this team of diverse professionals as we tackle important issues.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Lead Product Designer with Habitat Learn North America, as the company strove to break down barriers in education with the aim of making higher-ed inclusive for all neurodiversities, physical capabilities, and life circumstances. We built a suite of Ai and peer-to-peer services which were deployed to university students in Canada, United States, and the UK.In my role I employed human centered practices to develop our suite of innovative services and platforms, such as Captioning, Video Conferencing, Note-Taking, and Booking platforms.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Designed and coded a 50’ interactive installation for in the international art symposium "Nuit Blanche" working with MuseArts Toronto. This project aimed to cultivate collective and personal definitions of peace, through experiential, immersive, and interactive arts interventions.

Ottawa, Canada Area

I worked as a UX and Visual Designer with IBM Global Business Services, where we consulted to organizations including Toyota and the Government of Canada as we they revamped their existing SAP ERP systems.I contributed to the planning and facilitation of large scale Design Thinking workshops to generate conversation, gather stakeholder feedback, and generate new ideas. I helped educated internally and externally the benefit of Agile project management.Lastly, I worked with and developed visual guidelines, created Ui mockups, and spread my graphic design skills where ever it could be of service.

Toronto, Canada Area

I worked with OCAD's Ambient Experience Lab and to create a mobile app which allows students to easily document and visualize their competencies as a designer. I contributed greatly to the conceptual development through a design research process, and to the creation of digital experiences through UX/UI design and prototyping.This project was about supporting the benefits of being reflective and mindful of one's growth throughout education. We developed tools to help students capture their successes failures, and turn them into instances of positive development -- all while being supported by a digital community of colleagues and peers.

Toronto, Canada Area

To this day I continue to be connected with the CSI, and I participate in their social innovation community events. This began in 2017 when I volunteered 8 hours a week facilitating a weekly community event which generated positive social collisions between the different companies co-working in the space.

Toronto, Canada Area

I worked with the friendliest design studio in the city as part of an experiential work placement. I focused on creating generative patterns using grasshopper for rhino.

While studying Industrial Design I gained hands on experience as an employee of the Plastics Fabrication Studio at OCAD U. I significantly increased my skills with plastic fabrication of products and art objects, and also assisted dozens of students as they explored casting, vacuum forming, acrylics, polishing, and more.

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Created websites and graphic packages for several Ottawa-based organizations, focusing on the construction industry and entrepreneurs creating pitch content for new products.

Bdes - Industrial Design, Industrial And Product Design

Activities and Societies: Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship (declared minor) India Design Abroad Summer Course

International Exchange, Ui / Ux And Service Design

Activities and Societies: International exchange

Graduate Diploma, Psychoanalysis And Psychotherapy

Student at the CTP in downtown Toronto - a long term, experiential training program to become a psychodynamic psychotherapist.