About me.
Product Designer and Digital Experience Educator with deep experience in accessibility, inclusive design, user research, and education. Over 5 years leading cross-functional teams, guiding real-world projects, and improving digital inclusion across diverse users and contexts.
Proven track record in accessibility audits, usability testing, and developing user-centered design strategies. Skilled in agile workflows, cross-team collaboration, and digital experiences with real social and learning impact. Committed to equity, inclusive technology, and human-centered design.
Based in Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Teaching & program leadership
Leading a UI/UX design program at Cornerstone Community College.
I lead the UX/UI Design program, developing curriculum, mentoring instructors, and guiding 140+ active students through real client projects with Canadian organizations. Accessibility standards like WCAG 2.1 are embedded in the teaching itself, so learners run audits, usability tests, and inclusive design practices as a matter of routine rather than as a final checklist.
The role also covers organizing guest talks, 18+ sessions a year, and keeping educational outcomes aligned with what the industry actually expects.
- 400+
- Students managed across cohorts
- 35% NPS
- Against a 21% institutional average
- 18+ / year
- Guest speaker sessions facilitated
Where I’ve worked.
Écrivance
Nov 2025 – Present
Vancouver, BC
Founder & Product Designer
- Founded and shipped a TCF Canada writing-practice product solo (problem framing, UX, visual system, web and native mobile), now converting to paid subscriptions, with usage concentrated in Vancouver, Toronto, and Montreal.
- Designed the AI feedback interface by mapping the exam’s four official scoring criteria to a typed response schema, so model output renders as a fixed, scannable page: a 0–5 score per criterion, errors marked in place by severity, and a single prioritised action for the next draft.
- Rebuilt the error-marking system so every severity level carries a shape cue as well as a colour, after finding that minor errors marked in green were being read as praise rather than as mistakes.
- Instrumented 36 product events across the guest funnel, dashboard, and feedback surface, including rating and dispute events to monitor grading quality, supporting 2,336 submitted texts and 293,849 words of practice to date.
Cornerstone Community College (CICCC)
Aug 2023 – Present
Vancouver, BC
UI/UX Design Program Manager
- Lead UX/UI curriculum and strategy for 140+ active students (250+ across all cohorts), coordinating a team of 3 instructors and achieving a 35% program NPS against a 21% institutional average, based on 1,588+ student responses.
- Integrate WCAG 2.1 standards throughout the curriculum (accessibility audits, usability testing, and inclusive interaction design) to prepare students for industry-standard accessibility practice.
- Apply Design Thinking and Double Diamond methodologies to course structure while running program operations on Scrum for consistent delivery and continuous improvement.
- Oversee real client projects with Canadian organizations, mentoring students through user research, prototyping, and stakeholder presentations, and facilitating 18+ guest speaker sessions annually.
Hand Talk
Jan 2022 – Oct 2023
Brazil (remote)
UI/UX Designer
- Contributed to design adaptations for a UN-recognized platform serving 8+ million users globally, focusing on Hand Talk Plugin expansion into English and additional languages while addressing visual design, functionality, and cultural accessibility nuances.
- Leveraged Google Analytics and qualitative user feedback to inform UX improvements, achieving a 12% increase in translation feedback engagement within 6 months.
- Conducted accessibility audits using mixed-method research (surveys, interviews, workshops) and performed manual and automated testing with WAVE, aXe, VoiceOver, and NVDA to identify and resolve usability barriers.
- Redesigned the plugin’s mapping process to be more data-driven and accessible, implementing ARIA labels to strengthen semantic structure, collaborating across development, product, marketing, and customer service.
Confeitaria Roof
Dec 2020 – May 2021
Maceió, Brazil (remote)
UI/UX Designer
- Contributed to revenue growth exceeding $240,000 CAD by designing user flows for live lessons and an online course platform, directly supporting a new revenue stream.
- Conducted user research through surveys and follow-up interviews, implementing iterative UX improvements that increased customer satisfaction and reduced friction in the booking process.
- Designed information architecture and UX flows optimized for first-time users, ensuring intuitive navigation and clear calls to action throughout the customer journey.
Colophon
How this site is built.
It would be strange to argue for accessibility on a site that didn’t practise it. This one is built to WCAG 2.2 AA, and the choices are checkable:
- Semantic landmarks, one h1 per page, and a heading outline with no skipped levels.
- A skip link, and a visible focus ring on every interactive element: never removed, only restyled.
- Every image carries a description. The figure component requires alt text at the type level, so a case study cannot ship without it.
- Charts whose meaning would be lost as an image alone carry a full text description in an expandable panel.
- Data tables are real tables with captions and scoped headers, not screenshots of tables.
- All motion is gated behind prefers-reduced-motion, and nothing is hidden by CSS alone. With scripting off, the page renders plainly.
- Every text and background pair clears WCAG 2.2 AA contrast. The cyan accent is decorative only; it never carries text.
- jsx-a11y runs as an error-level lint rule, so an accessibility regression fails the build.
Built with Next.js and Tailwind. Found something that doesn’t hold up? Tell me.