An-drr-eh not An-dree

Nice to meet you!

I’m Andrée (she), the extra “e” in André is silent and makes the name feminine in French. Rolling lightly the “r” is a tongue twister and optional.

I am a product designer based in Ottawa/Gatineau area. Fluent in both French and English, I have a Bachelor of Arts from University of Montréal and a Bachelor of Industrial Design from Carleton University in Ottawa.

My motto is the real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but seeing with new eyes. (Proust)

I sometimes joke that I have an altruistic creativity. I am inherently driven to learn, observe and compelled to simplify with thoughtful designs. At last, I am a person that adapts and drives multiple concurrent projects.

As Edward de Bono wrote, “Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.“

When I am not designing new or redesigning existing digital products, I am running neighbouring trails with my dogs wherever we call home.

Before teleworking twenty two years for IBM around the globe, I did highly formative years in start ups.