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Creative Design | Experience Architect

Milena’s background as an Experience Architecture has allowed her to redefine audience experiences for global giants MTV, Intel, The Vancouver Olympics, Corus Entertainment, Yahoo, SONY, Bruce Mau Design, top defense agency
Zel Technologies and, most recently, Kid’s CBC.

Her background spans traditional architecture and design, digital media, software design, interactive (web+mobile), as well as cultural branding, visualization, communications and business strategy.

Her most recent success was designing the overarching experience flow for Babar and the Adventures of Badou with WMTV/Corus Entertainment, which won a Gemini for Best Kids Cross-Platform; a Gold Award in the Children’s website; and, a Silver Award Winner for Television website by W3.

As an educator, she teaches a MBA course on Creativity and Innovation at Schulich School of Business, York University.

Technical Lead

Vernon’s interest lies in using Internet and wireless technologies and infra-structure to assist companies to define and execute their business vision.

Vernon is the founder and CEO of TheGoodBlogs, a community promoting, connecting and discovering bloggers. TheGoodBlogs have also assisted companies like B5Media and Wellocities and InTouchLink to build out their online solutions. He is the co-founder and CEO of Play Dynamics, a company focused on engaging user experiences through play.

Since arriving in Canada in 1994, Vernon has worked with: Semagix (Senior Vice President, Product Engineering); XDL Capital Group (Technology Partner); CompanyDNA (Chief Technology Officer); Servicesoft Technologies (Chief Technology Officer); Balisoft Technologies (Vice-President of Engineering);  and BackWeb Technologies (Chief Architect).

Vernon’s technical skill set is built on the foundation of degrees in B.Sc. (Electrical Engineering), M.Sc. (Engineering) and Ph.D. from the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.

Susan’s experience spans verticals — education, entertainment, finance, retail, government — in well-established organizations and start-ups. She has built and led cross-functional teams bringing products and services to market. The range of applications includes the launch of Indigo.ca; an emergency virtual operations funded by Homeland Security; a research dashboard for financial analysts and launching 3D on the web at Siggraph. Her clients include Indigo, AT&T, Target, EDS, Deutsche Bank, Intel, Pearson Canada and Warner Music.

Prior to her work in the private sector, she held senior positions at York University as the Director of Academic Services for the Faculty of Science and Senior Policy Analyst for the Vice-President (Academic). She is a recipient of the prestigious York Class Builder’s Award.

Susan has completed professional development programs at the Harvard Business School and is a graduate of the New Media program at the Canadian Film Centre.