Charlie G.

I'm a product designer based in Montréal. I am fascinated by informal learning, speculative technology, and how the stories we tell ourselves can limit or expand our own futures. I also lecture a course at Concordia University called Creativity, Innovation, and Critical Thinking for engineering graduate students about the fundamentals of design. Previously, I have worked with a variety of startups using algorithms in unique applications. At Waverly, I was designing tools to help people build content recommendation algorithms using natural language processing. At Ground News, I relaunched their full web platform to combat media bias, resulting in 4x growth. At Wrk Technologies, I set up the design system that took into account over 1,000 different actions for their human-in-the-loop robotic process automation system. In 2012, I helped found District 3, one of Canada's largest university incubators. When I returned in 2018, I developed a student residency program which enables student