Career Spotlight – Sarah Clark What is your role? What is your title? Where are you located?  How long have you been doing it? I am Partner at Jelly Marketing and I manage all our day-to-day operations and HR within our agency. I also hold the same role with our second company, Jelly Academy. Both are in Fort Langley, and I’ve been with Jelly since 2013! What makes your job interesting? It’s interesting to me because I genuinely love working with people and building out and maintaining processes to ensure operations run smoothly and our company continues to thrive. What is the most fun ..read more

Career Spotlight – Anastasiia Mishchenko What is your role? What is your title? Where are you located?  How long have you been doing it? My role is Reliability Manager at Redlen Technologies. We are an Advanced X-Ray Detector manufacturer located in Saanichton, on Vancouver Island, off the West coast of Canada. My role’s focus is to build and manage the reliability program within the company. That is a company-wide program that aims to characterize and improve the reliability of our products. I’ve been in this position for almost one year. What makes your job interesting? It’s very multi ..read more

Career Spotlight – Brad Kent What is your role? What is your title? Where are you located?  How long have you been doing it? I am the Chief Technology Officer at Cymax Group. I’ve been here for about 2 years. My role is to lead every aspect of technology at Cymax Group, which is a big part of our company. I handle everything from the laptops our employees use, cyber security, developing and improving our products, Freight Club and Channel Gate, to things like artificial intelligence, which we’re really leveraging to grow and optimize our business. I’ve been in the analytics and technology ..read more

Tell me about your company. When were you founded? What do you do? And where are you located? Jelly Marketing, is our digital marketing agency that was founded in 2013. We help SME’s amplify their brand online via paid ads, social media, SEO, public relations and content marketing. We also have a second company called Jelly Academy, which is our digital marketing training school that was founded in 2015. We help people gain future ready skills and micro-credentials to land a job or grow their business with digital marketing. Both businesses are located in Fort Langley. What is the big probl ..read more

Tell me about your company. When were you founded? What do you do? And where are you located? Redlen Technologies is now part of the Canon Inc. group of companies. We are the global leader in the design and manufacturing of semiconductor X-ray detectors, based on our proprietary cadmium zinc telluride (CZT) crystal growth technology. What’s significant about our technology is that it enables photon counting – this is a true paradigm shift in the CT imaging market. For the first time we can detect individual X-ray photons and detect the energy, and we combine that capability with smaller ind ..read more

Career Spotlight – Fernanda Oliveira What is your role? What is your title? Where are you located?  How long have you been doing it? I am a Senior Product Manager, Voice of Customer (VOC). I joined PressReader in 2016. Our office is located in Richmond, BC. In the past seven years, I have taken different roles in the company, starting in account management, constantly interacting with publishers from all over the world, from places like New Zealand to Brazil, Canada, and Europe. Then I became a Team Lead of the account management team. Then a little while earlier in the pandemic, I moved ..read more

Tell me about your company. When were you founded? What do you do? And where are you located? PressReader, formerly known as Newspaper Direct, was established in 1999. We are located in Richmond, BC, and we operate with offices located also in Ireland, the Philippines, and the US. Our mission is to empower and enrich curious minds by bringing a universe of quality content within reach. PressReader is a group of companies that include three major brands – PressReader, Branded Editions which is a white labeled version of our technology, and TextbookHub which focuses on education. We are buildin ..read more

  Career Spotlight – Brittany Ho What is your role? What is your title? Where are you located? How long have you been doing it? I’m currently a Project Manager within our Products & Development team. I essentially manage and drive key strategic programs within our product team. I’m currently located in Vancouver, and have been for the past seven years, which is how long I’ve been at Hootsuite for. What makes your job interesting? I love that I’m able to work and collaborate with a lot of different people. I am a people-person, so I find that really satisfying. What I also love about p ..read more

Tell me about your company. When were you founded? What do you do? And where are you located? Hootsuite has led the social media space since 2008. It was founded out of the need our founder saw for his agency, so it was really a needs-based birth. Since then, social media has just been a rocket engine of online culture, connectivity, and now commerce as well. So naturally, that’s where you go to meet your customers, get information, and download insights that maybe your competitors or industry users don’t have. Hootsuite is a one-stop-shop for everything from marketing and engagement tools to ..read more

Career Spotlight – Takumi Miyazaki What is your role? What is your title? Where are you located? How long have you been doing it? My role is to lead the UX designers at Elastic Path and manage them as part of the product organization. My title is Senior Director, User Experience and I am located in Vancouver. I’ve been in Vancouver for about 30 years now – I’m originally from Japan. I’ve been a UX designer for roughly 10 years now, but if you go back to when I was a web designer, I’ve been doing it for around 15 years. What makes your job interesting? I think a lot of it boils down to making ..read more