"You love a project!"
– My best friend
About Me
Call Me Kay!
I’m Kaitlyn “Kay” Smith! My passion has always been to help people communicate with one another as efficiently as possible.
Throughout my career, I have improved the productivity of the humans around me through design thinking and by centring user experience.
My love for data began when I was a child, when I set to using Excel to document the physical attributes of all 626 aliens in Lilo & Stitch. (Very important work! LOL)
Over the years I began to see project tools, technologies, and even goals as a malleable variables to be improved upon over the course of and during a project.
As such, I became an accidental expert in both Agile + Waterfall methodologies. (Most often overhauling the latter to the former for maximum efficiency!)
I have helped redefine the way both my colleagues and clients achieve success by blending my creative and data-driven sides into all of my work, allowing then to navigate information in a much more natural and powerful way.
I am now looking for my next opportunity in the tech or design industry. If you think I might be the right fit for your team, let’s get in touch!
Throughout my career, I have improved the productivity of the humans around me through design thinking and by centring user experience.
My love for data began when I was a child, when I set to using Excel to document the physical attributes of all 626 aliens in Lilo & Stitch. (Very important work! LOL)
Over the years I began to see project tools, technologies, and even goals as a malleable variables to be improved upon over the course of and during a project.
As such, I became an accidental expert in both Agile + Waterfall methodologies. (Most often overhauling the latter to the former for maximum efficiency!)
I have helped redefine the way both my colleagues and clients achieve success by blending my creative and data-driven sides into all of my work, allowing then to navigate information in a much more natural and powerful way.
I am now looking for my next opportunity in the tech or design industry. If you think I might be the right fit for your team, let’s get in touch!
Timeline
How I got here
- 1994 • Discovered I could draw quite well
- 2002 • Created my first spreadsheet, for fun
- 2004 • Began to tinker with HTML
- 2005 • Started learning Corel Draw + Adobe CS2
- 2007 • Began taking fine arts classes
- 2008 • Started college for Film & Animation
- 2009 • First job in Graphic Design
- 2010 • Interest in Project Management sparked
- 2011 • Graduated Animation & Film Production
- 2011 • First job as a Production Assistant
- 2012 • Started university for Graphic Design
- 2016 • Bachelor’s Degree in Graphic Design
- 2016 • Returned to Production Management in film
- 2019 • Began to tinker with CSS
- 2020 • Executive Product Manager in Industrial Design
- 2022 • Took up Web Design more seriously
- 2024 • Earned certificate in UX Design
Contact
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