Work 👩🏻‍💻

Current

— Senior Designer @ Critical Mass x Airbnb on the MarCom Growth team 🚀
— Industry Mentor for digital designers + recent grads in the RGD Mentorship Program (since May 2023) 👩🏻‍🏫
— PT Freelance Brand Designer + Digital Creative Consultant (since 2011) ✨

Specialties

— Figma extraordinaire 🖱️
— Digital design systems 🕸️: building, maintaining, optimizing, bridging the gap between dev + design
— Creative strategy + design direction 🪄: high-level, holistic, values-based, for any scale (e.g. marketing campaigns, branding, UX/UI, business models)
— Copywriting 📝: pitch decks, marketing, long-form content, speeches, comedy

Past

— Education 🎓: Bachelor of Arts in Design with Honours from Simon Fraser University (School of Interactive Arts + Technology, 2014)
— Clients 🗄️: HP, Rocky Mountaineer, BC Hydro, Concord Theatricals, Ocean Wise
— Interactive Designer @ Engine Digital (steadily grew from Junior to Senior responsibilities during my time in 2015 to 2021) 💻
— View my LinkedIn for details and/or email me to access my five case studies 💼

Play 🪁

Basics

— Filipinx settler (she/her) based on the unceded lands of the Coast Salish, Tsleil-Waututh, Squamish, Stó:lō, Stz'uminus + Musqueam (aka Vancouver, Canada) 🏡
— Astrology 🔭: Taurus Sun in 1st house, Scorpio Moon in 7th house, Taurus Ascendant
— Human Design: Projector, 2/4 📽️
— Myers-Briggs Type Indicator: INFP-A ("Mediator") 🕊️
— Likes 💖: tarot + oracle reading, playing video games (as a Nintendo Switch girlie), going to art + design museums, travelling, eating + nerding about food

Favourites

— Music 🎶: Beyoncé, Jazmine Sullivan, PJ Morton, Ariana Grande, Megan Thee Stallion, Major Lazer
— Comedy 🤣: Steph Tolev, Ali Wong, Bo Burnham's "Inside", Nick Kroll's "Little Big Boy", Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Parks & Recreation
— Musicals 🎭: Rent, Hamilton, Hadestown
— Films + TV 🍿: Everything Everywhere All At Once,  Beyoncé's "Homecoming", Life Is Beautiful, Broad City, Adventure Time, The Midnight Gospel
— Animes 💥: Sailor Moon, Attack on Titan, Demon Slayer, My Hero Academia

In Progress

— Mezzo singer + soloist in Chorus Studio's B-Roll + Spotlight Choirs (since 2018) 🎤
— Roller dancing with Flö-sthetic 🛼
— Hustle dancing with Hustle at RS 💃🏻