Rory Dent

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About Rory Dent

Rory is a business and user-focused Senior UX Designer at Evans Hunt Group with extensive experience across industries such as SaaS, hospitality, travel, insurance, technology, telecom, and non-profits in Canada, the UK, and the U.S. He’s worked with clients like Rogers, Travel Alberta, Alterra Mountain Company, CAA, Hitachi Solutions, Oxfam, and Logitech, crafting user-centered designs that drive business results. He brings expertise in design strategy and planning as well as user research, wire-framing, prototyping, and usability testing, he specializes in end-to-end design for complex problems, heuristic and accessibility auditing, and design systems within multiple working environments- Audit, consult, strategize, and execute design systems - Strategize and execute Accessibility auditing workflow and process - An advocate to plan, organize, and facilitate workshops for cross-functional team collaboration - I work extensively to communicate design to development proficiently and to best practice - Oversee end-to-end design processes proficiently - Ability to work in an Agile and Scrum environment - Skilled in all aspects of cross-functional team engagement - Implement, improve, and educate best practices efficiently - Active in attending local conferences, events, and award ceremonies to engage in design communities - Motivational, encouraging, and engaging team leader - Adaptable and attentive to detail under intense pressure - Devoted to personal and employee professional development - A part of GDC (Graphic Designers of Canada) to review BC University Graduate portfolios (UBC, Emily Carr, Capilano)- Mentor to a collection of Graduate, Junior, and Intermediate and Senior Designers - First-class key managing skills for design teams and projects - User-centric; led by human-centered design - Has led 3 product design implementations for B2C Insurance as part of business transformation projects: Small Business Insurance — BCAA’s new and only digital-first insurance product focuses on filling unmet market needs, balancing service, customization, and simplicity. Residential Insurance — Re-design for system transfer from BCAA-owned back-end system into a partnered back-end system (Insurcloud) Insurance Self Services — A self-service portal for customers to view and manage their Insurance policies online, without the need to speak to an agent or underwriter - Highly Proficient with design software such as Sketch, Figma- Proficient in understanding HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript - Proficient with Confluence and Jira