• Dedicated remote mentorship for Product Design students of a self-guided product design boot-camp, emphasizing design thinking and career development

• Re-built the Staples Design System performing UX audits, competitive analyses, and component / page assessments while designing, completing documentation & guidelines for, and working with devs to build all fundamentals, components, elements, and templates
• Re-designed & worked with dev team to re-build all homepage banners creating documentation and guidelines for all internal and external stakeholders and vendor partners 
• Responsible for wire framing & designing various product specific landing pages utilizing Staples’ Design System in Figma, and UI/UX best practices while maintaining brand integrity
• Updated banner design process & templates to from Adobe Photoshop to Figma using auto layout, components, and variants to be more efficient and have cross team collaboration & provided training to internal team members and agency partners
• Designed and updated digital banners for all 3 of Staples properties (including English & French) to stakeholder specs including unique skus & promotions on a weekly basis

• Managed, designed, and built responsive websites for small-business clients end-to-end through user-centric designs within an accelerated timeline — sometimes as little as 1-5 business days
• Owned client relationships managing projects and overall design strategies while coordinating with internal teams and external stakeholders
• Created wireframes, high-fidelity mock ups, and interactive prototypes, integrating client feedback across multiple iterations 
• Built and launched websites through Wordpress templates built in-house and customized with additional HTML, CSS, and JavaScript as needed

Clients include Old Tomorrow Ltd, TribalScale, IBM, Out There Productions, MNP LLP, Prophix Software Inc, Mosaic Sales Solutions, & Microsoft
• Managed numerous events such as trade shows, summits, road shows, seminars, single and multi-track conferences, forums, roundtables, appreciation events, presentations, national tours, and training summits ranging from 30 - 1500 attendees and 5 - 300K budgets
• Researched, confirmed, and managed acquisition of all event assets including venues, AV, IT, Transportation, Print, Swag, Video, and Photography
• Developed project plans and managed all aspects of events including online presence, email campaigns, social media campaigns, graphic design, collateral & swag creation / production, content creation, schedules, and on-site logistics, displays, demos, partner activations, registration , and food & beverage
• Managed 10 to 50 event support staff including event coordinators, brand ambassadors, speakers, partners, vendors, and volunteers, hiring and training as needed
• Owned client relationships and managed stakeholders & internal teams and provided strategic advice and recommendations to execute successful events within budgets, timelines, and scope to the highest standards
• Supported teammates, partners, and senior management with calendar management, travel bookings, meeting planning, and preparation of RFPs, marketing materials, presentations, invoices and other client documents

• Owned execution of all retail events (trade-shows, training events, and appreciation events ranging from 10 to 100K + budgets), working with complex cross-functional teams managing budgets and timelines
• Owned event performance measurement process and the creation of strategic event improvements
• Improved time and budget management by creating new planning processes and reducing costs

Ontario College Graduate Certificate (Post-Grad) | Interactive Media Management
2019 to 2020, Sheridan College
Honours Bachelor of Arts | Specialist in Philosophy and Major in English
2002 to 2008, University of Toronto