About
Pronunciation - Va-si-lee-ya (She/her) Passionate and dedicated, with an interest in design and innovation, with over 6 years of experience in handling creative projects, tech-products and various client portfolios, Vassilia is a digital product, project manager, UX/UI Designer focusing on adoption of Scrum and Disciplined Agile Delivery and Design thinking frameworks in ensuring proper product implementation, delivery, and smooth transition into the Customer's ownership. With previous work experience in a variety of roles revolving around information architecture, UX | UI design and creative direction. Her unique advertising style has been published across both digital and print based platforms including Facebook, Instagram, Tonic Magazine, ALIVE Magazine and The Globe & Mail.
Vassilia is fueled by coffee, world travel, opportunity and the works of her favourite industrial designer, Karim Rashid.
Skills
Vassilia prides herself in her communication skills as well as her instinct for good design. She strives to ensure her Design and Project approach remain contemporary and in step with the latest mediums.
UX/UI Design
Project Management
Product Management
Graphic Design
Resume
Sumary
Professional Skills
- User Research - conducting qualitative & quantitative research
- Understanding of Material and Atomic design
- Product & Project Initiation, setting Objectives and Key Results
- Stakeholder Management, Client Relations and managing expectations
- Establishing scope based on client budgets and timelines
- Writing tasks and User Stories for scrum team backlog using Gherkin Syntax
- Championing various project delivery frameworks and methodologies including Disciplined Agile Delivery, Scrum and Traditional | Waterfall Project Management
Technical Skills
- Project | Product management software: JIRA, Confluence, Wrike, Smartsheets, Bitrix24, Planview, Microsoft Project/Excel
- Content Management Systems: Wordpress, Shopify, Storyblok
- Design Software: Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Figma, Sketch App, Zeplin
- Familiar with: HTML5, CSS3, MySQL
Education
Certificate in User Experience (UX)Design
York University
Post Graduate Project Management in IT
Seneca College
Graphic Design and Interactive Media
Toronto Film School at RCC Institute of Technology
Hospitality and Tourism Management
Ryerson University
Certifications
Certified Scrum Product Owner
Scrum Alliance
Lean Six Sigma
Council for Six Sigma Cer tification White belt
Professional Project Management
(PMP) Certification Candidate
Emergency First Aid and CPR/AED
C Certified
Languages
English
Russian
Arabic
Interests
Art @amado.creative
Interior Design
Product Design
Professional Experience
Senior Project Coordinator
Feb 2021 - Present
LOBLAW COMPANIES LTD.
- Brought on to join the Loblaw Brands Operations - Priorities & Outcomes team to help support with the execution of strategic plans and initiatives.
- Support the facilitation of governance processes and introduction on streamlining tools to improve Executive visibility into ongoing portfolios of work.
Product, Marketing& Design
August 2020 - Present
INI-TIGER CO.
- Supported managing client accounts
- Set up Project management environment and streamlined operations
- Worked with clients to gather requirements for digital product development
- Supported establishing brand identity and designed online-marketing
Project Manager, Marketing & Operations
Feb 2020 - May 2020
TOUCHBISTRO
- Inherited a portforlio of digital products to support growth including: touchbistro blog, website 4.0, and multichannels for user in UK and Latin America
- Managed a variety of B2B marketing and corporate projects while coordinating with the following internal departments: design, content, lead generation, customer service, sales and events
- Actively managed workload schedules for the marketing team
Product Owner, Digital Product Management
Jan 2019 - Feb 2020
WE CHARITY
- Led a large scrum team to deliver big bet, organizational projects
- Managed project scope, timeline and delivery
- Established MVP (Minimum Viable Product) and timelines to meet internal business needs and external partnerships
- Took over a high risk, status red project and delivered functioning software within the first 6 months
- Collaborated with the marketing department to ensure their needs are captured within the scope
- Held collaborative work sessions and story mapping to ensure developers are on board before finalizing design and project commitments
- Prioritized backlog items based on highest organizational value
- Build out releases and roadmaps to showcase upcoming milestones
- Provided training and support to other departments to onboard them onto new platforms and project management disciplines
- Lead scrum ceremonies, primarily backlog refinement and sprint planning
Project Coordinator, BI Department
Sep 2018 - Jan 2019
CIBC
- Supported Project Managers in process governance and project reporting
- Maintained project weekly statuses for a portfolio of projects
- Managed meeting minutes and documentation risks and issues affecting project delays
- Coordinated quarterly, fiscal year event
Visual & UI Designer
Apr 2018 - Sep 2018
AGILE BLOCKCHAIN CORP.
- Interviewed Supply Chain Management clients to review their processes and pain-points
- Process mapped their commercial flows and processes to understand how hyperledgers can help resolve their business concerns
- Designed wireframes and user interface propositions for application build out
Web Designer & Developer
May 2015 - May 2017
HUME MEDIA INC.
- Maintained current websites up-to-date
- Managed content on various platforms
- Designed and developed user-friendly websites for various clients
- Worked closely with clients to achieve deliverable satisfaction
- Designed for responsive web interfaces
Graphic Designer
Jul 2014 - May 2015
MOTEK CULTURAL INITIATIVE
- Organised and designed well structured sponsorship proposals for investors
- Created marketing materials for service and event advertising
- Modeled a new, visual marketing strategy for social media platforms
- Worked closely with the team at MOTEK to design and create the new Wordpress based website
- Re-branded the established company identity to be better recognized by investors and fans
Contact
Location:
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Email:
vassilia.amado@gmail.com