HELLO,

I'm caro

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— Product designer with 5+ years of experience in enterprise design & HCI research. As a former data scientist, I have a knack for data-rich solutions.

Previously at
IBM Consulting
Currently at
University of Toronto
Based in
Toronto, Canada
2019—2026©

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+53% case processing,
-15% service bottlenecks
I led the 0→1 design of MyGCPay, a pay transparency platform for 330k federal employees for Public Procurement Canada. This 2-year effort involved designing and scaling an ecosystem of B2B dashboards and agentic tools to integrate with legacy data and systems.
Role:
Lead Product Designer, CX Strategist (IBM Consulting)
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+23% revenue projected,
refined content management
I led the end-to-end research, information architecture, and product design to personalize online shopping and establish CMS foundation for product catalog integration across Sobeys and its 5 subsidiary grocery retailers.
Role:
Product Designer & Lead Researcher (IBM Consulting)
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Captured new metrics for online-to-instore conversions
For Sobeys, IBM developed a companion shopping list feature for customers to save products and plan visits to their local store. I contributed to the 0→1 conceptualization and design. This serves as an interim solution while Sobeys works to implement native checkout functionality.
Role:
Product Designer & Research Lead (IBM Consulting)
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100k hours of admin saved,
+31% workflow efficiency
As part of a partnership between IBM and Nova Scotia Health, I led UX strategy workshops for a 6-week initiative to conceptualize two AI-powered MVPs using Watsonx AI Studio (SaaS). This project is under NDA—reach out for more details.
Role
Lead UX Strategist (IBM Consulting)
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At Air Canada, I researched workflow challenges to help IBM develop a predictive model and seat-forecasting dashboard that improved transparency, interpretability, and alignment with managers’ needs for anticipating seat demand and pricing adjustments.
Role:
UX Researcher, Data Scientist (IBM Consulting)
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Client

– I use my background in data science and HCI to transform concepts into meaningful experiences for users.

Let's collaborate. I've worked with small to enterprise level organizations across different industries, including some of the following: