Andre Molnar

Personal Statement

I am an accomplished professional and T-shaped as fuck.

I've worn each of the Leader, Techie, Designer, Architect, PM, Product Owner, Mentor, Creative, Researcher, Facilitator, Creative, and Operator hats, and continue to do so whenever its necessary to get shit done.

I've worked with every type of organization from a scrappy team, to collective, community, or corporation. I've worked with every corporate function.

I'm passionate about art, technology, culture, and beauty, and live to learn and create.

I'm versitile. I'm not an expert in any one thing, but exceptional at many making me adaptable and a quick study.

I am literally wired to make connections isntantly and grasp complex systems with ease.

I'm exciting about the future I can create. I'm ready to roll up my sleeves and make an impact.

Let's get some cool shit done together.

Testimonials

Andre is a solution's first leader. Where many see a concern, Andre sees an opportunity to try something new. His optimism and positive spirit are contagious, and often carry him and his team through tough deadlines, and longer than expected evenings.
Andre is a passionate and inspirational leader. I appreciate everything he's taught me and encouraged me to do.
Andre's ability to understand an individual's fundamental needs and then align them to the needs of the team has been inspirational.
Andre tells me the truth - no matter how difficult it is to hear.
I tell my wife this all the time. I've had four managers in UX and where I am, where where I was when you came on was probably the best thing that could have happened in my career.
Andre is the ultimate player/coach. He moves from creative lead to contributor and provides value in many areas of a project, including dev work, design, and content.
Andre consistently does an amazing job spinning all the plates and keeping multiple teams in line and on track. He manages to herd all the cats (teams) to not only deliver the digital portion of a project but everything from content, to creative, to assets.

Work

Avanade

Group Manager User Experience Design

Feb 2022 - Present

Toronto, Chicago, Seattle

Delivering exceptional workplace experiences for a global workforce.
Leading an distributed multi-national design team. Design Ops.
Product owner for the Avanade Design System. User advocacy and solution delivery across multiple portfolios including IT, HR, Marketing, and Data.
Champion of modern workplace solutions on the leading edge of Microsoft innovation including Viva and Azure Open AI.

Skills: Strategic Planning · Cross-functional Team Leadership · Product Management · Project Management · Storytelling · User-centered Design · Leadership · Operations Management

Shopify

Creative / UX Manager - Brand and Communications

May 2019 - Sept 2020
Toronto, Remote
Shopify Carbon Outlook
Shopify Re-Unive
Shopify Global Economic Impact Report

Skills: Cross-functional Team Leadership · Project Management · Storytelling · Leadership · Operations Management

UX / Front End Developer Lead - Brand and Communications

November 2017 - May 2019
Toronto

Skills: Project Management · Leadership

Myplanet (now Orium)

Associate Direcotor of Technology

March 2011 - November 2017
Toronto
Senior developer, architect and associate director of technical operations for one of three business units at Myplanet.Senior developer, architect and associate director of technical operations for one of three business units at Myplanet.

Skills: Strategic Planning · Cross-functional Team Leadership · Project Management · Leadership · Operations Management

Freelance and Sideprojects

One Red Streamer

Principal / Producer

November 2020 - June 2023
Chipper - Executive Producer - Toronto 48 Hour Film project finalist.
Everything that Rises - Production Design, Story boards
W.I.P The Musical - Writer / Producer. Art director. Script supervisor
Personal Best: Sports Horror Musical POC - Writer / Producer / Actor. Storyboard artist.

Skills: Strategic Planning · Cross-functional Team Leadership · Illustration · Project Management · Storytelling · Leadership · Operations Management

Be Circle

Founder

2004 - Present
Incorporated in 2020, and operating as a sole proprietorship since 2004.
Be Circle hasn't been very active since the early 2010s, but I've kept it alive on paper because I am always ready, willing, and able to take on new and exiciting projects.

Education and such

Trent University

Bachalor of Arts - Computer Studies / Cultural Studies

1993 - 1997
Peterborough, Ontario
Undergraduate thesis: "Computers are boring: people's interest misplaced"
The thesis was that technology and computers are not interesting on their own. It is network effects that they enable that will drive cultural change.