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Hi I'm Taryn ! 👋
Neuroscientist 🧠 turned Product Designer 🎨. I'm an advocate…
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Hello again Linkedin! I am breaking my bout of silence, pushing through the backlog of "I should get to posting about this", and to make myself…
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Experience
Education
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University of Sydney
Activities and Societies: Events Director & Creative Associate @ Google Student Developer Club (GDSC) General Executive @ Sydney University Experience Designers (SUEDE) Research & Development Officer @ Enactus USYD
1st Place, Macquarie Group x SUEDE X DigiSoc Product Hackathon
Semi-Finalist, Westpac Youth Impact Challenge x Australian School of Entrepreneurship
2nd Place, McMaster Design League UX/UI Designathon
Honourable Mention, Canva x Prodigi Productathon
IxDA Student Design Charette x Amazon | SUEDE x Atlassian Designathon | SYNCSHACK Hackathon
Distinction or above in the following units:
Product Design Studio | Information Visualisation Studio| Interaction Design Studio |…1st Place, Macquarie Group x SUEDE X DigiSoc Product Hackathon
Semi-Finalist, Westpac Youth Impact Challenge x Australian School of Entrepreneurship
2nd Place, McMaster Design League UX/UI Designathon
Honourable Mention, Canva x Prodigi Productathon
IxDA Student Design Charette x Amazon | SUEDE x Atlassian Designathon | SYNCSHACK Hackathon
Distinction or above in the following units:
Product Design Studio | Information Visualisation Studio| Interaction Design Studio | Qualitative Research in Design | User Experience Design Studio | Design Theory and Culture | Design Process and Methods | Principles of Animation | Introduction to Web Design | Design for Innovation | Aboriginal Sydney | Managing Your Project | Cryptocurrency Markets and Investments -
Volunteer Experience
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Creative Events Director
Google Developer Student Clubs - The University of Sydney (GDSC USYD)
- 1 year 1 month
Education
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Creative & Marketing Associate
Google Developer Student Clubs - The University of Sydney (GDSC USYD)
- 8 months
Education
Honors & Awards
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Ultimate Success Q2 FY23
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Ultimate Success Q1 FY23
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Ultimate Success Q2 FY22
Commonwealth Bank of Australia
Each quarter the Leadership Team review the outstanding Legends recognitions from the quarter and collectively agree on who will progress to the CBA Ultimate Success State Dinner & Best of The Best.
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Top Department Annual Performance Review FY20-21
Commonwealth Bank of Australia
Achieved the highest performance rating within my department. Most notably for going above in:
- creation and implementation of capability uplifts for new COVID processes
- creation of a supervisory workload tracker which identifies knowledge gaps within the department and identified opportunities for the business to distribute training to fill these on an individual and departmental level. Overtime increasing NPS and decreasing operational exceptions
- covering business…Achieved the highest performance rating within my department. Most notably for going above in:
- creation and implementation of capability uplifts for new COVID processes
- creation of a supervisory workload tracker which identifies knowledge gaps within the department and identified opportunities for the business to distribute training to fill these on an individual and departmental level. Overtime increasing NPS and decreasing operational exceptions
- covering business needs by stepping into leadership secondment for 3 months, leading the training of 8 new staff members, aiding change management in the return-to-BAU from COVID and creating and running adhoc trainings
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