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Algonqiun College

  • Department: Applied Reserach and Innovation/li>
  • My Role: Researcher, Designer, Developer
  • Duration: January 2015 - December 2016
  • Tools used: HTML/CSS/JavaScript/PHP, Adobe CC, MS Office, InVision

While attending Algonquin college, I was hired to work with the Applied Research and Innovation department on several projects. Some of my responsibilities were to meet with clients to understand their technology, user, and business needs, to work independently and in a team setting, to delegate tasks to team members, and to meet project deadlines. My clients included Masterpiece VR, RCBenchmark, ARI Hub, Paralegals on Wheels, CloudChef, EDMS Dental, and GaitTronics.

My Role

Team Lead
  • Setup meetings and expectations with clients
  • Delegated team tasks
  • Organized client meetings
  • Met with clients to determine project deadlines
  • Met with clients to understand business and user needs
  • Created powerpoints to present findings,
  • recommendations, and solutions to clients
UX Design
  • Created low-fidelity wireframes using Adobe Illustrator and Balsamiq
  • Created prototypes using inVision and other various prototyping software
  • Created high-fidelity wireframes to represent final product
  • Analysed results from user testing and made appropriate updates
Web Development
  • Developed websites and web applications using PHP, JQuery, HTML, CSS
  • Implemented front-end designs to a number of web platforms and content management systems such as Wordpress, Media Wiki, ASP.NET C#, and Shopify