Australia

UX Design

UI/ Visual Design

Branding and Identity Design

Service Design

Product Design

Customer Experience (CX)

UX Engineering

Web Solutions Delivery Server

PRINCE2 Foundations

Web Solutions Management Server

Creative Photography - Basic

Adobe Flash CS - Rich Media Designer

Java Programming - Introduction

Java Server Pages

Dreamweaver MX Intermediate/Advanced Level

Coldfusion MX - Intermediate Level

Java Programming

Diploma di Laurea

CAF - Accountant

Diploma of Informatics and Programming

Tim Colica

Principal UX/UI Designer

Problem-solving

Critical-thinking

Empathy

Team player

Organisation skills

Accessibility

User research

UserTesting

Zeplin

Figma

Miro

Adobe Creative Suite

Google Analytics

Understanding factors that lead to a motivated team - recognition, communication and more.

Keeping team members motivated

Understand the process of training, motivating and directing your team members.

Managing people

How to create a positive workplace culture that drives collaboration and productivity?

Fostering a good team culture

Steps to building and maintaining a strong, cohesive and effective team.

Building an effective team

Learn the tips to successfully manage a team in a remote environment.

Managing a remote team

Making remote and globally distributed teams work for you and your needs.

Working remotely

Learn essential burnout prevention techniques and replenish physical and emotional energy.

Managing burnout

Talk to people who have learned to manage their imposter syndrome.

Dealing with imposter syndrome

Talk to other immigrants about the nuances and challenges of working in the tech industry.

Being an immigrant in tech

Keeping your sanity, career growth and job satisfaction.

Surviving a merger or acquisition

Navigating micro-aggression, getting paid what you are worth and finding a community.

Being a woman in tech

Strategies for maximizing your design internship or co-op program.

Getting the most out of my internship

Tips for transitioning into a new role or company.

Changing roles

How to successfully prepare and position yourself for a job promotion?

How to get promoted

How to ask for a promotion and negotiate for salary raise?

Negotiating a job offer

How to think about design career paths and what progression looks like for designers?

Design career path

Get actionable feedback on your resume or portfolio.

Resume and portfolio review

Practice HR, technical and behavioural interviews with mentors.

Practice mock interviews

Talk to people who've broken into the tech industry and learn their stories.

Breaking into tech

Learn the best ways to answer technical interview questions with frameworks

Acing technical interview questions

How to set up the team for success by defining and measuring team's performance.

Choosing metrics and team goals

Best practices for running productive design critiques.

Running effective design critiques

Methods of prototyping and solution validation. When to use which kind of prototype (eg. Webflow, Notion, etc)

Prototyping methods and tips

Manage team expectations and get the most out of your meetings.

Running effective meetings

Learn how to properly present your work and share ideas and opinions.

Presenting your work with impact

How to work with team members with different skill sets but towards a common goal?

Working cross-functionally

Methods and models of exploring, deciding and delivering design.

Building a design process

Managing being the only designer at your company and working with non-designers.

Being the only designer

Explore different generative and evaluative research techniques. User research synthesis and presentation.

Conducting good user research

Ways and resources to improve your design skills.

Improving design skills

Navigating the working relationship with PM's and engineers as a designer.

Working with product and engineering

How to create personas, and leverage them in design.

Creating and leveraging user personas

Ways to provide constructive feedback to team members.

Giving effective feedback

How to conduct interviews, what to ask, and how to analyze your results? (eg. user interview)

Conducting effective customer interviews

What are design systems and how to work with them?

Building successful design systems

Consulting at Woodside for internal Oil & Gas projects.

I joined the Digital UX Team to help improve the design process and the overall user experience of RAC digital products. Some of my activities and contributions are listed below:
-	Working with external consultants to implement large scale products
-	Mentoring junior team members on Design Principles and User Centered Design
-	Convert high fidelity mock-ups to fully working HTML / CSS prototypes
-	Collaborating in design workshops to gather requirements
-	Help introducing the Design Sprint in the digital delivery process
-	Collaborating in the creation and implementation of a design system to increase the productivity of designer and developers
-	Organise and improve the overall Information Architecture of RAC website
-	Research and implement techniques to improve RAC website page speed performance

As a Senior UX/ UI Lead, I was responsible of creating an online style guide for their existing online LNG (Liquid Natural Gas) Trading Platform. Introduce the concepts of a Design System to improve productivity and scalability of their future products. Improve the UI, user journey and overall experience of their trading platform. Help to identify the user pain points while trying to achieve their goals. Suggest a different approach to problem-solving, advocate the adoption of Design Thinking as a first step of the development process. Support developers during testing of new features. Engaging with Multinational companies (Shell, Petronas, Woodside, BHP, ) via the Singapore main office to provide design solutions for online trade reports and trade forecasting dashboard systems interfaces.

During my time as a Senior UX / UI Technical Specialist, my main role was to provide consulting expertise on User Experience and User Interface to a variety of Australian Business. I was part of the internal Digital UX Team and collaborated on a series of projects of different scale. My main objective was to provide my skills to improve the overall status and experience of new or existing platforms, services and applications. I was also providing my support and mentoring to junior members of Insight UX Team when needed. I took part on some very exciting projects and I learn even more during these engagements.

Key Projects:
- South32 - Field Monitoring System
- WA Police - Crime Stats Web Application
- RAC - Little Legends Website
- RAC - Home & Car Insurance
- RAC - Pets Competition
- Programmed - SharePoint Intranet
- PEET Real Estate - Blog Development
- INPEX - Business Management System
- Civmec - Precast and Prestressed Concrete Process (Pre-Sale)

As a Tech Lead and member of the project “DeNovo”, I was leading one of the teams building a new online Credit Card platform for Small Australian Business. The role was overseeing the process of ideation, design, story mapping, user journeys, mock-ups design, prototyping and testing of the digital platform. Being part of users testing and interviews and assist engineering team for design delivery and implementation.

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