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)