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Vancouver, CA

• Initial planning and oversight of Canada's first and only 100% data-driven news platform. We take the complex issues around real estate and housing, and explain them to Millennials in plain english. Key roles:
• Developing the brand's growth strategy by establishing and leveraging partnerships with large media outlets, allowing us to grow into Canada's largest independent housing news site in just a few short months.
• Building and maintaining relationships with key contributors, including a number of politicians, and high-profile business executives.
• Developing in-house trend aggregation and research tools, and teaching staff how to leverage those tools to provide the right coverage at the right time.
• Building and maintaining a custom app backend that allows our journalists to collect and analyze data that we can easily visualize to create unique stories.

Los Angeles, California, US

• Overseeing end-to-end technical development from specifications to beta testing of a children's learning application.
• Spec'd and developed a full technology stack including custom application backend.
• Reducing technical aspects of learning to mathematical theory. Working with psychologists and education specialists to find solutions for learning roadblocks that can be solved with technology.
• Design of a custom algorithm that learns how children learn, and adjusts to match their personal learning style.
• Implementing and overseeing an analytics program to help smooth on-boarding and continued use from both children and their parents.
• Managing design and UX vendors to help implement child and parent friendly app interfaces for web app and iOS.

• Oversaw development of the website and IOS tour app, from initial speci cations, to beta testing, to launch. Key roles included:
• Build of initial website, and design of the backend user interface.
• Created a custom backend framework so contributors and authors could easily assemble listicles of their favorite places.
• Gathered initial contributors, that included some of the world's most renowned fashion designers, stylists, and chefs.
• Developed and designed an iOS framework for in-house prototyping of self-guided walking tour apps.

Toronto, Ontario, CA

• Led the womenswear product development team of the 120+ store apparel chain. Analyzed key demographics using KPIs established through sales patterns, seasonal trends, and competitors. Some of the key duties included:
• Project Management: Managing technical, graphic, and production design teams to execute and deliver products for deliveries.
• Spec Packages: Creating complete and detailed specification packages to communicate with domestic and overseas vendors.
• Trend Analysis: Shopping domestic and foreign markets to determine where and what is appropriate for target demographic.
• Overseas Sourcing: Maintained and established relationships with overseas vendors. Acted as the main point of contact with the overseas factories in Asia/Eastern Europe. Approved all samples through final product, and.
• Sales Analysis: Prepared and briefed the executive team with weekly sales analysis, and gave a plan of action on how we would respond to the numbers.

• Product developer at the high-end fashion label Tevrow + Chase. The consistent, high-quality development led it to become a celebrity favorite – even being named one of Oprah's favorite things. During my time there, we.
• Trend research and development.
• Creating technical specifications packages. Ensuring clarity, as they were being sent to overseas vendors.
• Daily communication with vendors and factories to track the development process, and ensure high quality production.
• Ensure shipments were on time, and on-track for delivery.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Computer Science

Fashion Design And Techniques

Fashion Design

Education record