Hey, I'm Dave — a designer based in Winnipeg, Canada.

I'm open for design opportunities!

Experience

Product Designer @ SkipTheDishes
December 2017 — April 2023

  • Led two redesign projects for a restaurant partner management product suite to align with design systems, improve overall usability, increase user engagement, and improve NPS score.

  • Developed a marketing platform that increased restaurant baseline order volume by 20% to over 150%, contributing 8% to company EBITDA in 2019 and growing by 400% in the second year.

  • Designed a menu management product to save hundreds of support staff working hours, resulting in 60% reduction of incoming related support tickets and by up to 90% the following year.

  • Collaborated with a global team of designers and developers to build a company-wide design system to harmonize a family of digital products and improve efficiency of design and product development.

  • Conducted usability research to present user insights to design teams and stakeholders and inform refinement of design solutions before development.

Unit Stills Photographer

  • Royal Canoe — Surrender (2021)
    Music Video / Directed by Vincent Tang

  • Trish — It's Too Late (2020)
    Music Video / Directed by Vincent Tang

  • Peter Harder — Too Complicated (2020)
    Music Video / Directed by Vincent Tang

  • RIFT (2020)
    Short Film / Directed by Vincent Tang

  • STMBLZ feat. HAVS — Shade (2020)
    Music Video / Directed by Vincent Tang

  • Encore — Tell Me (2020)
    Music Video / Directed by Vincent Tang

  • Sebastian Gaskin — Snakehold (2020)
    Music Video / Directed by Vincent Tang

  • Just Desserts (2019)
    Short Film / Directed by Vincent Tang

Certificates

Product Analytics Certification

Pendo — March 2025

Product-led Certification

Pendo — March 2025

Product Management Basics

Pendo — February 2025

Enterprise Design Thinking Co-Creator

IBM — February 2025

Enterprise Design Thinking Practitioner

IBM — January 2025

React Basics

Meta — November 2023

HTML and CSS in Depth

Meta — July 2023

Version Control

Meta — June 2023

Programming with JavaScript

Meta — April 2023

Introduction to Front-End Development

Meta — March 2023

Skills

UI/UX Design
Wireframing & Prototyping
Interaction Design
Mobile & Web Design
Information Architecture
Product Design
CSS/HTML & Javascript

Editorial Design
Motion Design
Branding & Identity Design
User Research & Usertesting
Video Production
Photography
Illustration

Tools

Figma, Origami Studio, Sketch, InVision, Davinci Resolve Studio
Adobe — Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Premiere

Education

Bachelor of Fine Arts
University of Manitoba