Sema Software product manager and designer
Design and prototype for MENRVA research group / MoVit Technologies Inc
Designing the Resilient Link with Design+Food Atelier
First design job as a Studio Assistant to in Sholto Design Studio
Started freelancing as BIEM ETC. design in 2016
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I've made career of helping good people get things done. I picked up my first trade painting houses on the prairies and West Coast while I completed business school.
While studying Product Design I worked as studio assistant at Sholto Design Studio helping him craft wood and metal furniture. I registered myself as a design service provider under the name BIEM ETC. design which I've contracted and freelanced under since 2016.
As a student I was an inaugural member of Design+Food Atelier (D+FA), a food design research group. We published a proposal for a sustainable food system in South West British Columbia called Designing The Resilient Link.
In 2017 I joined Carlo Menon's MENRVA research group at Simon Fraser University to design and build prototypes of soft textile wearables. I worked extensively on a user-centered approach, and unique textile integration of a thread-like sensor in base layers and looser fitting garments.
I left the lab after being accepted into the Venture For Canada Fellowship program and moved cross-country to Atlantic Canada.
Product Manager & Designer — Sema Technologies Inc.
I started making software at Sema Software, a globally distributed Baltimore-based SaaS start-up working to automate software maintenance. As the first hire of the Product team I worked as point-person for Product across engineering, research, sales, and marketing.
Moonlighting as the design guy, I advocated for a good, radical design standards across the org. I worked on every part of the Angular web app, established design systems, adopted a new BI tool for analysts and customers, built a knowledge base, and put forth a product proposal for future of the platform. It was a complex and ambitious product service system and great teams all around. I learned under great product leadership, and left a wartime product and design leader that carried a roadmap through tough times and out the other side.
In 2020 I left Sema to focus on personal projects & freelance work before moving to Germany. I'm now looking for a creative, diverse team working on new and interesting challenges.