Résumé

Becca Baird
Ontario, Canada

beccabaird.com

Summary

A developer and designer who approaches challenges with an analytical and creative mindset, while using a thorough understanding of each phase of the development process in order to ensure seamless handoffs in any role.

Employment history

Policy analyst
November 2022 – present
Employment and Social Development Canada, Canada Service Corps

  • Product owner for a scrum team delivering on a volunteering portal prototype for youth

  • Develop business requirements, provide input on various procurement documents, take part in scrum ceremonies, lead backlog refinements, plan work required per sprint

  • Design internal Microsoft PowerApps client relationship manager to keep track of engagements, contact information and funding information

  • Ad hoc design requests for briefing materials and other internal documents shared up to the Prime Minister level

Junior policy analyst
November 2020 – November 2022
Employment and Social Development Canada, Canada Service Corps
canada.ca/en/services/youth/canada-service-corps.html

  • Onboard students and oversee their work

  • Design Microsoft PowerBI dashboards to aggregate and display program and website data

  • Work with internal stakeholders to lead the design of webpages for the Civic Participation Pilot

Program generalist
September 2017 – November 2020
Employment and Social Development Canada, Labour Market Information
clmi-explore-icmt.ca [link to demo]

  • Design graphics, using Adobe Creative Cloud, Figma and Invision to enhance the appearance of the site as well as aid in communicating technical concepts to internal and external stakeholders

  • Front-end development for desktop and mobile formats, using RESTful APIs, JavaScript/jQuery, HTML, CSS, JSON and AJAX to analyze and disseminate labour market information to Canadians

  • Ensure accessibility of the site through collaboration with an external communications firm

  • Implement and monitor web analytics using Matomo and Google Analytics

  • Develop and SEO strategy to increase daily visitors from around 50 to 300+

  • Develop a custom executive dashboard, using C3/D3 libraries, to report on key project indicators for upper management

Web publishing specialist
June 2015 – September 2017
Employment and Social Development Canada, Red Seal Secretariat
red-seal.ca

  • Formatted 600+ documents for web while the site was being updated to ensure all pages adhered to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0

  • Produced infographics on program data used as briefing materials

  • Maintained a stakeholder mailing list, scheduled e-blasts, and tracked metrics around those e-blasts

Education

2013 – 2017
Bachelor of Information Technology – Interactive multimedia and design
Carleton University

2013 – 2017
Advanced diploma – Interactive media development
Algonquin College

Skills and tools

Design

  • Graphic design

  • UI/UX design

  • Adobe CC (Illustrator, Photoshop, After Effects)

  • Figma

  • Invision

Programming

  • CSS

  • HTML

  • JavaScript

  • jQuery

  • C3/D3

  • JSON

  • AJAX

  • C#

  • Unity

  • Github

  • Atom

  • Eclipse

3D Modelling

  • Maya

  • Substance Painter

Project management

  • Agile/scrum

  • Trello

  • Azure DevOps

  • Slack

  • Gitlab

Awards and certifications

Assistant Deputy Ministers' Award of Excellence in Policy Design
February 2024
Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC)

Assistant Deputy Ministers' Award of Excellence in Innovation
October 2021
Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC)

Certified ScrumMaster® (CSM®) 🔗
Scrum Alliance
January 2024

Certification of completion - an Introduction to Parapsychology
University of Edinburgh
September 2020 - November 2020