Anne Stevens Service Design Innovation Data Viz UX / IxD Profile From digital media to bricks-and-mortar building, I have a solid track record of multidisciplinary design applied to real world problems (health care, electronic waste, sustainability). I offer the latest in digital media and design thinking, combined with private practics business experience. [email protected] stevensanne.com 416-436-1178 180 Borden Street, Toronto, M5S 2N3 • Leading edge sustainable design • For-profit and not-for-profit sectors • Developed and developing world contexts My designs have won national design competitions, been showcased on CBC’s The Nature of Things and published in peer-reviewed journals. Key proficiencies • Screen- and non-screen-based media • Data visualization design • User experience design • User centered design methods • Outside the box creativity • Multidisciplinary and multistakeholder teamwork • Rapid prototyping and user evaluation • Foresighting methods, trend analysis & scenario development • Client facing communication • Architectural design & construction • Adobe Creative Suite • HTML, CSS • Axure • Processing, Ketai • Arduino • Tableau, R, Gephi • XPath • SketchUp 3D modeling • AutoCad • Drawing and model making Education April 2013 Master of Design, Digital Futures, OCAD University, Toronto, Canada • Master’s thesis: New Uses for Old Phones: Upcycling the Rotary Dial Phone in the Age of the Smartphone. It addressed the problem of increasingly rapid mobile phone obsolescence with two interactive projects that upcycled the rotary dial phone to make it function like a smartphone. • DFI Graduate Chair’s Award • Thesis proejcts exhibited at eLeo X-shaped Digital Creatives exhibition, Dec. 2013, and Xtension exhibition, April 2013 April 1994 Bachelor of Arts (Honours), Humanities, York University, Toronto, Canada June 1988 Diploma in Architecture, Architectural Association School of Architecture, London, England • Professional Architecture degree Anne Stevens Digital Media & Technology Oct 2014 July 2014 to the present Freelance Design and Innovation • Dundas Data Visualization, Toronto: user experience design; visualization design best practices website content development. • White Noise: representing radio station demographic data in sound and interactive media, in partnership with a Ryerson University faculty member Apr 2013 to the present Design and Development:Visual AnalyticsTools, Mobile Platforms, UI / UX / IxD Visual Analytics Lab, OCAD University, Toronto, Canada Industry partner: CAIS Hospital, Lins, Brazil • Data visualization, long term healthcare • Peer reviewed publicationt • User flow diagrams, wireframing • Prototyping and user evaluation Dec 2012 to June 2014 Design Research Visual Analytics Lab, OCAD University, Toronto, Canada Industry partner: BBM Analytics - Data Visualization of broadcast media data • Data visualization, broadcast media • Tangible user interfaces • Screen- and non-screen-based media • Prototyping and user evaluation May to July 2012 Field Research and Advocacy Digital Empowerment Foundation, Delhi, India. DEF’s mission is to use information and communication technologies to empower people on the edge of information in India and south Asia. • Informal mobile phone economies • Ethnographic research • Electronic waste Teaching & Curriculum Development Apr to June and Sept to Dec 2014 Jan to Mar 2014 Sept. 2011 to Dec 2013 Sept to Dec 1990 Instructor, OCAD University, Toronto, Canada • Introduction to Visual Analytics • Fully developed and delivered this brand new continuing studies course for professionals Curriculum Development, Digital Futures Institute, OCAD University, Toronto, Canada Instructor & Teaching Assistant, OCAD University, Toronto, Canada • Networked Environments and Communities • Research Methods for Graphic Designers • Visual Studies III: Critical Frameworks Adjunct Tutor, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada • Architectural Design Studio: Urban Design pg 2 of 3 Anne Stevens Architecture 1998 to 2011 Owner and Principal Architect, FORTarchitect inc., Toronto, Canada Grand Prize winner, Archetype for the Living City Competition, a national sustainable housing design competition, organized by the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority and the Design Exchange. • Leading edge sustainable design • Member, Ontario Association of Architects • Heritage, institutional, retail, residential, tree• LEED Accredited Professional house design 1995 to 2001 Build Committee Member, Construction Site Supervisor, Architect, Construction Volunteer Habitat for Humanity, Toronto, Canada • Outside-the-box project management • Leadership & volunteer training • Multiple stakeholder coordination • Hands-on construction 1988 to 1997 Architectural Design • Shary Adams Architect, Toronto, Canada • Susan Speigel Inc., Toronto, Canada • Baird Sampson Neuert Architects, Toronto, Canada References Dr. Sara Diamond, President, OCAD University Lead Researcher, OCADu’s Visual Analytics Lab 416-977-6000 x. 300, [email protected] Dr. Paula Gardner, Associate Professor, OCADu Faculty, TA supervisor 416-977-6000 x. 405, [email protected] Patricio Davila, Associate Professor, OCADu Master’s thesis supervisor TA supervisor 416-977-6000 x. 4360, [email protected] Osama Manzar, Founder, Digital Empowerment Foundation, Delhi Research internship supervisor 91-11-26532786, [email protected] Contact [email protected] stevensanne.com 416-436-1178 180 Borden Street, Toronto, M5S 2N3 22 Oct, 2014