
User Experience Designer
Ottawa, Canada Area

User Experience Designer
Ottawa, Canada Area
A designer with over eight years of extremely diversified design experience in a variety of media. Possesses acute design sensibilities, a critical eye, a savvy for technological and social trends, and is always seeking to provide revolutionary value for the end user.
Heuristic design process; user-centric design process; critical design analyses; technological and social trend-spotting; collaborative design; inter-disciplinary mediation; technical specification.
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; CREL; Computer Software industry)
June 2008 — Present (1 year 6 months)
Currently focused on designing the next generation of CorelDRAW, Corel PHOTO-PAINT, the Corel Graphics Suite, and other related products.
(Design industry)
January 2008 — Present (1 year 11 months)
Small design agency providing services and consultancy in user experience, human-machine interaction, graphic design, and new media. Supplementary services include concept development and visualisation; web development; graphic and animated production for web, print, and screen; project management; brand and imagery; design analyses.
(Design industry)
August 2006 — February 2008 (1 year 7 months)
Small sole proprietorship which eventually spawned Ego's Milk Incorporated. Provided a variety of graphic, new media, and architecture design services.
(Architecture & Planning industry)
June 2004 — June 2005 (1 year 1 month)
Designed and actualised a protocol for the digital architecture reconstruction lab to develop technologies for high-end architectural visualisation, generation, analysis, and communication.
Compiled cost estimates, authored quarterly reports, and prepared other progress data for federal agencies and ministries.
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; CREL; Computer Software industry)
May 2002 — September 2003 (1 year 5 months)
Design lead of Corel Grafigo 1.0 released November 2002. Part of the research and development unit. Researched new market opportunities; functionally designed and technically specified user experience and interface of consumer- and enterprise-class software.
M.Arch , Architecture , 2004 — 2007
Thesis entitled "Salon Ottawa & The Diagram: Explorations of Participation Generated, Generation Participated" and advised by Michael Jemtrud.
B.A.S. , Architecture , 1999 — 2004
Awarded Carleton University Entrance Scholarship, 1999. Graduated with distinction and 16-month co-op option.