Design & Product Leader
Designer, researcher, operator.
20+ years across entrepreneurship and in-house leadership. I've built small companies from the ground up, and grown from a designer role into a VP position.
Open to leadership roles and fractional mandates. Montreal, hybrid or remote.
- Operating years
- 20+
- Countries I've worked in
- 5
- Working languages
- 3
- Teams built from zero
- 3
- Teams I've strengthened
- 9
Master, Interaction Design (Lyon 2) · BA Visual Design · NN/g UX Certified, UX Management
A kid who drew for hours, learning to think visually
A professional visual designer, then interaction designer
A visual thinker turning from art to STEM and cognitive science
A leader growing from designer to VP, building and consolidating functions
A design operator dedicated to research that improves operations
T-shaped, on purpose. My breadth in business and technology is a conscious effort to understand my partners: their language, their constraints, their goals. It makes me a better collaborator, and a better designer. It is also what teams now ask of a design leader: to work across the whole product, not only its surface.
T-shaped · DisciplinesQuestionsBXTProduct VennProduct trio
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BusinessViabilityBusinessBusinessProduct manager
I ran my own studios, owned a product P&L, and merged three functions into one unit. I read work in revenue, cost, and risk.
TechnologyFeasibilityTechnologyTechTech lead
A decade toward STEM and cognitive science. I prototype in code and work with AI, so I design with the material, not on faith.
DesignDesirabilityExperienceUXDesigner
20+ years in visual information, interaction, and systems. Information design is where I go deepest: structure made visible, so teams can decide.
People
Design org design
I build and scale design organizations, aligning them with product, engineering, and operations.
Facilitation
A practice I cultivate and study. I run workshops for boards, leadership teams, and large groups. Then I build the framework the group needs to act — an operating tool, not a slide.
Structure
Information architecture
I turn complex problems into clear, simple, executable structures — not just interfaces.
Cross-functional synthesis
I use diagrams to align teams. I turn many points of view into one visual model that product, engineering, and operations can read and use to decide — with or without a workshop.
Direction
Strategic design
I apply a computational-thinking lens to leadership — clarity, measurability, and repeatable process.
Vision and future thinking
I look past the next roadmap. A few small innovation awards show the interest is real: OpenIDEO × Amnesty International (2011), La Charrette × McCord Museum (2019).