Product Designer

LinkedIn - linkedin.com/in/terripersad/Email -terri.persad@gmail.com

EDUCATION

University of Toronto
HBA, Communications, Culture and InformationTechnology
Sheridan College (joint with degree)
Certificate, Digital Communications

OTHER EDUCATION

Juno College (formerly HackerU)
Certificate, Web development  
Brainstation
Certificate, UX design

SKILLS

Wireframing
Prototyping
Affinity Mapping
Usability Testing
Information Architecture
Heuristic evaluation
Competitive analysis
Semiotics
User stories
Content strategy
Responsive web design
Accessibility
Stakeholder review  
Design Sprint and workshop facilitation
Google Analytics
Research
Tools
Figma
Zeplin
Sketch
InVision
Principle
Photoshop
Illustrator
Adobe Target
Adobe Experience Manager
Confluence
JIRA 
Mural
Web Development
HTML
CSS
Javascript
React
Accessibility

CURRENT EXPERIENCE

Product Designer  
May 2024 – Present
Commerce, Scotiabank
Together with marketing stakeholders, a mix of content designers as well as various project managers I design experiences on .com, which is built using AEM. These projects range from small one page experiences for topics such as 2-step verification, and mortgages to bigger projects for new products. Each project entails different strategies and different sources of information as it relates to data and analytics, competitive analysis and overall engagement.

PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE

Senior Product Designer & Content
May 2022 – May 2024
Consumer Banking, RBC Royal Bank of Canada
Working within retail banking (self serve and assisted), predominantly within Credit Cards, however, often collaborate with owners for RBC channels(Online Banking, Mobile) as well as other design and product teams within the retail space.
Create the design strategy for entire flows and for individual components. Work alongside product to solve for complex business and technical issues demonstrated through simple UI and simple language. Moderated and unmoderated research in credit cards as well as available data, influenced emphasis on information hierarchy and visual hierarchy to avoid cognitive overload and allow the user to focus on areas that connected to their financial needs and easily move through our flows. Led the integration design for all regulatory bills in Consumer Banking and was part of a wider design team to ensure the final solution met all regulatory, accessibility and use cases requirements. Our solutions for Bill 101/96 and Bill 64 were adopted by other teams across the bank into their own flows.
Projects I have worked on at RBC:
o   Product designer - True Pre-Approval – Credit card application targeted to existing users.
o   Lead designer for the implementation of numerous Bills and collaborated with other journeys across the bank – Bills 141; 101/96 and 64
o   Independent designer – Card activation for new clients from another bank (NDA near expiration)
o   Independent designer – Wallet Provisioning – allow client instant credit immediately after receiving credit card approval.
o   Independent designer –  Co-branded cards - partial implementation to existing credit card flow
o   Designer/lead designer – Design sprint for Value. Team consisted of a lead designer, product designer and me, along with the leadership team for Value for a month. Took on lead design role for final two weeks, when lead designer was away.
Digital Content Publishing Manager
Jan 2022 – May 2022
AIR MILES | LoyaltyOne
Digital Content Specialist
Sept 2019 - Dec 2021
AIR MILES | LoyaltyOne
Provided leadership to a team that influenced every aspect of thedigital makeup of AIR MILES.
Provided approvals, guidance and strategy to various teams including UX and Product when creating new layouts and functionality as my team managed all digital channels in the organization and maintained the rules including design, interaction and technical limitations for the channels and components within those channels. Participated in AODA companywide initiative as a project lead for my team but also part of a team that lead the overall execution.Provided QA support to ensure testing issues were actioned. Created and updated all brand pages for Merchandise using HTML, CSS and JavaScript and ensured they were responsive and AODA compliant along with all digital assets that were inAdobe Experience Manager.  
Leading up to my manager role as well as in my manager role, I helped restructure website pages in AEM together with the data management team so that the organization could get more accurate data as it related to organic impressions and CTR.
Completed user research with diverse group of collectors and non-collectors to identify opportunities for improving Auth0 experience.
o   Improve user flow -user had difficulty finding login.
o   Unanimous suggestion for using email to login instead of collector pin.
o   Challenge - same emails used for multiple collectors.