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About me

🧑‍💻 Experience across accessibility, graphic design and English teaching

🎓 Background in design & linguistics

🧠 Driven, curious and compassionate

🏡 Outside of work: Painting, learning dance, or out in nature!

Timeline


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🧑‍💻 Versatile designer at an accessibility agency

At the Information Access Group, from Jan 2022 to May 2025

  • Created engaging human-centred designs for print and web, led product testing, shared insights with clients and internal team, iterated designs using insights from data to improve product quality and the product experience for users

  • Worked on 340+ projects for 70+ public and private sector clients, including on major federal projects covering sensitive themes

  • Other tasks included: Ensuring brand consistency, supporting marketing with illustrations, layouts and graphics across a range of collateral

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🤓 Driven Bachelor of Design student

In Monash University’s Bachelor of Communication Design (UX/UI focus),
from 2019 to 2022

  • UX/UI focus gave me foundations and skills in end-to-end product design

  • Additional coursework developed skills in areas including typography, visual design, layout, image-making, illustration, motion fundamentals, branding, basic HTML & CSS

  • Final GPA of 3.9

  • Participated:

    • As a Mentee in the Alumni to Student Mentoring Program in 2021

    • On the Monash Open Day panel, representing the Communication of Design program in 2020

    • In the MADA Peer Mentoring program as a Mentor to a junior student in 2020

    • As a MADA Communication Design Representative in 2019

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A painted portrait

🎨 Creative explorer

In RMIT’s Visual Arts Diploma in 2018

  • Explored and developed skills in oil painting, printmaking and sculpture

  • Developed photo and video editing skills in Photoshop and Premiere Pro

  • Broadened my understanding of art history

  • Exhibited works at RMIT Open Day


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🧑‍🏫 English language teacher

At Primus English, from 2017 to 2019

  • Shared my love of languages and helped students build language skills to support their daily lives in Australia

💡 Learning language teaching fundamentals

In a CELTA teaching course at RMIT English Worldwide in 2016


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🇩🇪 Jetsetting exchange student

In Germany, studying at Albert-Ludwigs Universität from 2015 to 2016

  • Recipient of a Global Languages Scholarship in 2015

  • Studied linguistics, German and German cultural studies subjects while living in Freiburg

  • Worked in a bar, providing service in English and German

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A photo of Annie wearing a graduation gown

🎓 Curious linguist

At The University of Melbourne, from 2013 to 2016

  • Completed first year of the Bachelor of Science program

  • Transferred to, and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts, majoring in Linguistics & Applied Linguistics, and German Language

Design philosophy

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I value meaning-driven design, where work is done in service of others and the environment.

  • Projects at the Information Access Group were in service of accessibility, and providing people with more accessible information and communication formats

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Values guide my personal and professional life.
Some important ones for me include:

  • Respect

  • Compassion

  • Learning

  • A sense of play

  • And, creativity (that’s a given!)

A picture of Annie drawing and painting
A charcoal and ink drawing with different textures

Let’s work together

Interested in working together? Fill out some info and I’ll be in touch with you as soon as I can. Looking forward to hearing from you!