I grew up in Toronto, Canada. After obtaining an undergraduate degree in industrial design at the Ontario College of Art & Design University (OCAD U), I worked at a design consultancy supporting small and large multi-national organizations on strategic and service design initiatives in healthcare, financial services and non-profit. During this time, design thinking and human-centered approaches to design like prototyping and co-creation were starting to be applied to business problems. Looking to further pursue interests in data and visualization, I obtained a masters in spatial analysis and visualization from University College London (UCL). Afterwards, I continued working in service design for several years and taught an undergraduate course on Systems Thinking at OCAD U.
After 8 years of working on organizational-level problems, I shifted towards software product design. I worked in legal technology on a machine learning contract analysis software system (before LLMs became commonplace) and then in open source geospatial software, primarily supporting teams at NASA to make it easier for scientists to search for Earth Observation data. Most recently, I worked at a robotics company in Tokyo, Japan where I was certified to operate industrial robots and contributed to UI/UX solutions for factory workers to operate and recover robot systems. In addition to design, I've often taken on the role of product or project manager and researcher.
Outside of work, I've been a pretty consistent runner for almost 20 years. I've run 11 marathons. The most memorable ones include the Totem to Totem Haida Marathon in Haida Gwaii and the Boston marathon. I also like to work on side projects such as CNC cutting a bedframe or writing a yearly zine about life.
