Experience

Marqyi

• Canada
• Design Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Principal

  • May 2015 - Present

  Promoting adoption and increasing communication on strategies that caters to Digital Transformation in the financial industry. Bringing billable, expense, and value towards my clients' client to light.Collaborate on digital transformation strategy undertakings with clients to achieve global competitiveness in areas but not limited to: enterprise application transformation, user and client experience, one off creative solutions plus campaigns, big data (uniformity of Excel), interactive data analysis (again big data), user experience consolidation strategy of core applications, and of course mobilization to boost efficiency and effectiveness.Finally transfer knowledge through Knowledge Management and moving forward with articulated Project Management we will, together, with your firm achieve the competitive edge to take over a Digital Marketplace.



Meritarc

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• User Experience Advisor

  • Feb 2021 - Present



PwC

• Professional Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Director, Tax Technology

  • Jan 2013 - Apr 2015

  Lead a user experience team to design, build and deliver a comprehensive UX solution architecture for a suite of integrated Tax applications. Work closely with application teams to develop novel collaboration and workflow solutions with a focus on usability and user interaction.Collaborating directly with Partners and Directors to ensure the successful implementation of technology design guidelines by promoting a firm wide unified user experience consistency to boost internal (PwC) and external (Client) communication, interaction, and workflow efficiency.Key Accomplishments:- Managed Vendors, developers, and marketing to produces a consistent User Exeprience.- Direction on next steps for future thought leadership on what is to come for the core business.- Mobilization strategy on all Tax related application to provide wider range of flexibility and affordance to accomplish tasks.- Build and consulted on working models for Big Data for PwC Tax. Including, presentation and analysis.- Produced and delivered a consistent UX strategy for PwC Tax as a whole.

• Global Collaboration Digital Experience Lead

  • Jul 2012 - Dec 2012

  Digital Experience leader on global collaboration initiative focusing on building a comprehensive architecture for user experience across a portfolio of global applications for internal and external clients.Technical Creative leader on PwC Global Collaboration initiative. Ensure bi-weekly progressive enhancement of solution branding, user experience, user interaction and user adoption.

• Manager, User Experience, User Interface Design and Development

  • Oct 2007 - Jul 2012

  • Manage, User Experience (UX) and branding, for internal and external facing applications (Global and National).• Technical Design leader on PwC Global Collaboration initiative.• Design leader National PwC Canada Portal.• Manage PwC National UX horizontal through leading a team of designers and developers in the successful implementation of PwC Canada suite of applications.• Work closely with BA's, PM's, Product managers to define requirements and adjust workflow.• Taking proactive lead in solving complex business problems consulting and collaborating with stakeholders (Partners and Upper Management) and sub business units.• Conduct UX research and testing through planning and interview pooled from sample user groups.• External vendor management and resourcing.

• Design and Development Consultant

  • Jan 2007 - Sep 2007

  • Maintain brand recognition amongst production applications• Design user interactivity and experience• Develop applications that brings value to the lines of service and external agents.• Performing usability studies on existing and new applications.• Front-end Designer and Developer of National PwC Portal project phase 1. Carefully assessed current client needs and delivered an award winning corporate collaborative portal.• Designer in internal workrooms using WSS3.0 to track resources and organizational workflows.• Designer and Developer on a Sales Relationship Management framework driven by Flash and ActionScript 3.0 that delivered an enriched and dynamic experience for knowledge storage and presentation.• Developed theme conventions and visual rules to adhere with PwC Global brand for small and large productions.



Marqyi Inc.

• United States
• Health and Human Services

• Principal Consultant

  • Jan 2006 - Dec 2006

  Independent digital consultancy brand established to engage and deliver innovative solutions to forward looking clients. Independent digital consultancy brand established to engage and deliver innovative solutions to forward looking clients.



IASciences

• Research Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Portfolio Design Architect

  • May 2005 - Nov 2005

  • Designing layouts to meet client specifications.• Redesigning annual reports in Adobe InDesign format.• Producing dynamic and printable trade tickets in HTML styled with CSS.• XML formulation and XHTML – XSLT transformation.• Meeting with clients for template adjustments, such as HSBC, FAII, and CIBC. • Designing layouts to meet client specifications.• Redesigning annual reports in Adobe InDesign format.• Producing dynamic and printable trade tickets in HTML styled with CSS.• XML formulation and XHTML – XSLT transformation.• Meeting with clients for template adjustments, such as HSBC, FAII, and CIBC.



Argun Communications

• United States
• Telecommunications

• Creative Lead

  • Jun 2001 - May 2005

  • Host client design meetings and manage client expectations.• Designing layouts to meet client specifications. Clients include: FairFax, Richmondhill Online, and TimesGroupCorp.• Acting Creative Director in creating solutions for specific projects.• Delivering creative consultation to clients. • Maintaining and updating client solutions. • Host client design meetings and manage client expectations.• Designing layouts to meet client specifications. Clients include: FairFax, Richmondhill Online, and TimesGroupCorp.• Acting Creative Director in creating solutions for specific projects.• Delivering creative consultation to clients. • Maintaining and updating client solutions.