Andrew is a multi-talented management and design operations professional with expertise in Product Development, Experience Design, Multimedia Production, and Process Improvement for creative and technical teams. He has been a technical operations leader in industrial design (Apple), AI research (Amazon), Global Event Production, Robotics, Optics, Health Care, Enterprise planning, HR, Filmmaking, Mixed Reality interaction, and more.
Why so many different types of projects? Because of a love of learning, gaining new skills and perspectives, and finding the commonalities in the way people experience different types of interactions and products. Most of all, Andrew loves to collaborate with fascinating people who may or may not be focused on a single discipline.
The through-line in his work is an innate ability to facilitate better, faster, more thoughtful execution, enabling just the right mix of structure, discipline and creative freedom needed to develop cutting-edge ideas into real-world things. Stakeholders at all levels come to rely on his calm, empathetic leadership style and ability to bring teams together with a common purpose.
5 years managing design operations and user experience analytics at major tech companies.
15 years as a project and program manager, with emphasis on innovative product ideation and holistic execution.
Cross-functional mediator, facilitator and communicator, flowing easily between technical, business and creative dialogues and driving informed decisions within diverse teams.
Skilled in a wide variety of workflow applications, creative tools and development methodologies.
Extensive experience in quantitative and qualitative data analysis and reporting.
What colleagues say:
"You are one of the best colleagues I’ve worked with.”
Beatriz Leon-Millan, Amazon
"You really get things that most people don't get.”
John Morrell, Apple
“You really allowed our projects to leap ahead.”
Karon MacLean - UBC Computer Science