David Scrieciu

I'm a master’s student in User Experience with a background and experience in graphic design, videography and cognitive science. Excellent interpersonal skills and a capacity to build strong working relationships. Organized, quick learner, impeccable attention to detail and the ability to multi-task.

UX Copywriter / May 2022 – August 2022
Intact Financial Corporation, Montréal, QC
• Writing and translating content for Figma in English and French
• Data entry regarding vehicle information

Census Operator / April 2021 – December 2021
Statistics Canada, Gatineau, QC
• Census Help Line
- Helping Canadian citizens to complete the 2021 census – in English, French and Romanian
- Reminding Canadian citizens about completing the 2021 census
- Answering questions regarding the 2021 census
• Data entry
• Organizing and coding the data from the questionnaires

Event Staff Team Lead / October 2019 – June 2020
Carleton University, Ottawa, ON
• Leading and supervising my team during the open house events at Carleton University
• Taking pictures of the open house events at Carleton University

Camera Operator / July 2019
RunnerSpace, Montreal, QC
• Applying my director’s instructions during crucial moments at the 2019 Canadian Track and Field Championships while operating a camera
• Filming the numerous events at the 2019 Canadian Track and Field Championships
• Arranging the film equipment at the end of the 2019 Canadian Track and Field Championships

Graphic Designer / May 2015 - August 2017
Elections Canada, Gatineau, QC
• Rebranding documents and designing logos, proven by my ability to plan, conceptualize, and develop creative design concepts
• Creating videos representing the goals of my team using Adobe Premiere
• Creating corporate videos for training purposes using Adobe After Effects, and incorporating graphics created in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator
• Creating infographics and subtitling videos in both English and French 
• Organizing, preparing, creating and designing documents such as print publications, posters and promotional items used by my employer for training financial agents in many different cities across Canada
• Helping my employer managing over 20 job interviews by guiding the candidates through the process
• Translating over 50 documents from English to French for financial agents in training

Master of Science (MSc) – User Experience (2-year program) 2022 – Present (I’m currently completing the remaining of my program online, therefore I can work full time in Ottawa or Gatineau. I only have my thesis left to complete, no more courses left, which means my schoolwork won't interfere with the work schedule since I would be completing it on my own free time)
HEC Montréal, Montréal, QC (Canada)
• Currently working on my thesis project titled: The Way Films Feel in VR: The impact of Aesthetic Features and Mood
- Completed a literature review
- Created and organized questionnaires
- Completed an ethics application
- Interviewed participants during data collection
• Awarded a scholarship by HEC Montreal for data collection (M.Sc.) 
• In my Advanced UX Design class: working on a project for Loto-Québec, where we had 2 weeks to improve an application using previous research.
• Design thinking methodology

MicroMasters Certificate in UX Design and Evaluation 2022 – 2023
HECMontrealX - in collaboration with edX
Completed 7 online courses:
• Introduction to User Experience
- Interviewing a participant
- Creating an interactive low-fidelity prototype
• UX Research
- Interview guides
- Focus groups
- Surveys
- Personas / Scenarios
- Levels of Experience and Experience Mapping
- Customer Journey Mapping and Service Blueprint
- Card sorting
• UX Design
- Creating Persona
- Creating UX Maps
- Design thinking workshop
- Ideation
- Divergent thinking
- Convergent thinking
• UX Prototyping
- Heuristic Criteria
- Information architecture
- Low & Medium Fidelity Prototyping using Figma
- Designed a high-fidelity prototype for an app using Figma
• UX Evaluation: User Testing
- Preparation of the meeting with the client
- Qualitative Data Analysis
- Quantitative Data Analysis
• UX Data Analysis
- Descriptive statistics
- Hypothesis testing
- Comparison of Two Means
- Comparison of Several Means
• UX Management
- Maturity assessment
- Interviewing a professional UX Designer

Bachelor of Cognitive Science Honours (4-year program) 2016 – 2020
Carleton University, Ottawa, ON (Canada)
• Research project: Using Virtual Reality (VR) to investigate action-based effects on spatial perception with auditory stimuli

Graphic and Web Design (3-year program) 2013 – 2016
Heritage College, Gatineau, QC (Canada)          
• Dean’s Honour Roll Design student (90% + average), 2014 – Heritage College
• Honour Roll Design student (80%-89% average), 2013 – Heritage College

High School Diploma, International Baccalaureate and SÉBIQ Diploma (5-year French program) 2008 - 2013
École secondaire De l’Île, Gatineau, QC (Canada)