About Me
Professional Bio:
Work Experience:
Venngage
Sr. Graphic Designer (2018 - Present)
In my current role at Venngage, a SaaS startup company, I am responsible for curating and designing user-centric templates based on user-cohort research and jobs-to-be-done industry trends.
As a senior designer, I mentor the creative team’s design thinking strategies, user focused processes and template usability guidelines based on template performance analytics and customer use case learnings.
I also provide feedback testing on product features for continuous improvements, create marketing promotional assets to expand brand awareness and plan template goals and/or design experiments for acquisition and retention.
Visually Marketplace
Freelance Creative Director + Design Lead (2012 - 2017)
During my tenure at Visually, I collaborated on a variety of freelancing projects with international clients, executing design deliverables in a timely manner to meet each project milestone. I was also responsible for creative direction and overseeing project roadmaps on projects where I remotely managed (global) junior designers to ensure client expectations were met.
Fuelcontent (FCB Toronto)
Graphic Designer (2008 - 2017)
While working at Fuelcontent, a specialty service advertising agency under the FCB Global network, I collaborated daily with project coordinators, art directors, production and the prepress photo studio departments.
Working in a client-facing environment, I was responsible for creating ROP programs, brochures, flyers, reports, signages and marketing assets for accounts such as Hudson’s Bay Company, Foodland Ontario, RBC, Via Rail, and more.
Creative Skills:
- Creative direction + copywriting
- User-centric + data-driven design strategy
- Branding + vision strategy
- 360° marketing campaigns
- Infographics + data visualizations
- Iconography + illustrations
- User research, testing + design usability
- Design mockups + brainstorming
- Design deliverables (editorial, reports, brochures, posters, flyers, online social, banners, mobile, email, etc)
- Accessibility UI/UX design
Technical Proficiency:
- Adobe Illustrator (Expert)
- Adobe Photoshop (Proficient)
- Adobe InDesign (Expert)
- Adobe AfterEffects (Novice)
- Figma (Advanced Beginner)
- Microsoft Office (Expert)
- Acrobat Pro (Proficient)
- Mixpanel analytics (Proficient)
- HTML5 / CSS (Novice)
Education / Training:
Essential Accessibility Academy, 2022
- Color Fundamentals for User Interface Designers Course
- Buttons & Links for User Interface Designers Course
- Image Fundamentals for User Interface Designers
York University / Sheridan College, 2004-2008
- Bachelor of Design Honours Degree
- Design and Visual Communications