Experience

Renoworks Software

• Canada
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director, Design Services

  • Mar 2021 - Present

• Design Services Manager

  • Feb 2017 - Mar 2021

  Renoworks provides home visualization solutions for the home building/remodeling industry and retail environment. Our web and mobile applications allow users to virtually preview products on an image of the exterior or interior of a home.



Dissolve

• Canada
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Production, Quality Assurance and Curation

  • Aug 2014 - Jan 2017

  I was a long time admirer of the core team when they were Veer, and I saw this opening as the perfect opportunity to hop on board. Not only would I get to meet and collaborate with the talented folks from Veer, but I would also gain experience in an e-commerce business that had the potential to grow rapidly. Added bonus, being surrounded by passionate people, beautiful images and inspiring video footage that is licensed to customers all over the world.All of us on the production team were consistently reviewing submissions from different video and photo contributors from all over the world. Ensuring quality visual content and accurate metadata. In 2016, our team of 5 reviewed and loaded 328,525 video clips and 816,329 photos.QUALITY ASSURANCE:▸ Ensuring that all models and properties are released, where applicable.▸ Monitoring for copyright and trademark infringements.▸ Ensuring quality metadata and correcting and improving it, where appropriate.▸ Ensuring the technical quality is up to Dissolve's standards (making sure there's no glitches, black outs or trans-coding errors).▸ Reviewing and assessing the visual quality according to Dissolve's curation guidelines by grading some content higher and rejecting other content that doesn't meet Dissolve's standards.▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬



Renoworks Software

• Canada
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Marketing Manager

  • Feb 2013 - Aug 2014

  After parental leave, I returned with the main focus of enhancing our brand image and redoing our website to reflect our new SaaS model and our improved software visualization solutions across many devices. I was also instrumental in exploring a new product initiative, Renoworks Pro, by forming and regularly connecting with a group of super users and early adopters, collecting their feedback, testimonials and suggestions for improvement. ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ After parental leave, I returned with the main focus of enhancing our brand image and redoing our website to reflect our new SaaS model and our improved software visualization solutions across many devices. I was also instrumental in exploring a new product initiative, Renoworks Pro, by forming and regularly connecting with a group of super users and early adopters, collecting their feedback, testimonials and suggestions for improvement. ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬



Renoworks Software

• Canada
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Product & Project Management

  • Aug 2005 - Feb 2012

  As my journey progressed, I proved that I could take on more and more responsibility. I had several different titles over the years, but Product and Project Management is what sums it all up best. As the company continued to grow, we stayed very small so every team member had multiple roles to play. And lucky for me, I enjoyed the challenge of it all. Learning new roles, problem solving issues as they arose, and putting out fires as they came up. I was considered a go-to person for many in the company and for many of our customers at the time. I loved this, as I was always in the thick of it all, staying busy and shifting gears day after day. Being highly vested in customer satisfaction, I was very in-tune with our customers making sure to accurately clarify their product requirements. I would operate closely with them by holding regular phone call meetings as the project progressed to ensure their business needs were being met. I was also ready to deliver the not-so-good news in the event of a launch or product feature delay, which would happen from time-to-time. But, I did so with honesty and integrity and that is what builds a trusting relationship.▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬

• Image Production Artist & Graphic Designer

  • Feb 2000 - Jul 2005

  This role was the start of my journey with Renoworks. Renoworks is a home visualization solution geared for the home remodelling industry and it had just launched, and I was fortunate to be there right at the beginning. The main goal for me at that time was to build a library of home remodelling image swatches with Photoshop to populate the product catalogue in the software. I was one of three people working on this goal. The role over time began to include graphic design to create brochures, technical and user help manuals, and tradeshow materials. We also helped test all new features and provided technical and user suppport to our growing base of customers.▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬



The Georgia Straight

• Canada
• Newspaper Publishing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Production Manager for The Calgary Straight

  • 1999 - 2000

  The Calgary Straight was an extension of the Georgia Straight out of Vancouver, an arts and entertainment weekly. Responsible for meeting highly demanding print deadlines each week, supervising production staff and designing page layout and advertising.▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ The Calgary Straight was an extension of the Georgia Straight out of Vancouver, an arts and entertainment weekly. Responsible for meeting highly demanding print deadlines each week, supervising production staff and designing page layout and advertising.▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬



SLB

• United States
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 700 & Above Employee

• Operations Assistant / Field Surveyor for Geko-Prakla

  • 1995 - 1998

  Geko-Prakla was a division of Schlumberger. I started out as a field surveyor and then moved to the office to become an operations assistant.OPERATIONS ASSISTANT (1 1/2 years):▸ Streamlining routine administrative projects for more efficiency and accessibility.▸ Writing instructional and procedural manuals for field reports.▸ Providing in-house support for all field staff.FIELD SURVEYOR (1 1/2 years):▸ Working in remote locations in Alberta, British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Montana, Wyoming, and North Dakota.▸ Collaborating with a survey team to establish GPS control networks.▸ Creating survey line maps in AutoCAD for seismic line crews to follow, illustrating: sec-twp-rge, control network, surveyed lines, hazardous and environmentally protected areas, etc…▸ Performing quality checks of survey data.▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬