Work History & Education - Shayne La Rocque

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Saint Paul University

Specialist, Web and Digital Experience

Sep 2026 — Present

Ottawa

Leading the university’s web transformation, digital experience, and AI automation strategy.

Webmaster

Apr — Sep 2026

Ottawa

Initiated the university's web rebuild and automated core webmaster workflows with custom AI agents.

District 3

User Experience & Systems Designer

2023 — 2026

Montreal

System development, data analytics, and UX design to enhance user experiences, improve data practices, and align tech strategies.

Systems, Data & Automations Coordinator

2022 — 2023

Montreal

Data collection, automations, visualizations, and dashboards.

Alan Shepard Resident Consultant

2022

Montreal

Explored new strategies for Montreal's non-profit arts sector with an interdisciplinary team.

room tablets

Rows of chairs facing a projector screen reading Alan Shepard Summer Residency Vernissage 2024, with a laptop and headphones on the audio desk. — event hosting

new site launch

office dashboard

A wall-mounted display showing the District 3 website being prototyped in Figma. — figmaing

Art Matters Festival

Web Developer & Designer

2023 — 2024

Concordia University

Designed and developed the website for the 24th edition of Concordia University's Art Matters festival.

Five low-fidelity wireframes for the Art Matters landing, calendar, about, and artist pages. — lofi mockups

Low-fidelity wireframe of the Art Matters homepage in Figma, with sections for the schedule, team, values, and archive. — lofi mockups

website launch

A gallery room with small sculptures on white plinths, framed works, and a row of sky paintings along a brick wall. — exhibition setup

Visitors talking in a white-walled gallery at an Art Matters opening, with red sculptural pieces on the wall. — vernissage

Milieux Institute

Research Assistant

2023 — 2025

Concordia University

Research assistant on Inappropriate AI, building speculative AI prototypes that were exhibited at Concordia's 4th Space.

Two facilitators stand beside a projected slide reading Pull, pickup lines that land, with a QR code, during a workshop in a Montreal design space. — workshops

The red and white 3D-printed Date-O-Meter cabinet on a plinth, its eye-and-heart lens glowing green above a ten-cent coin slot. — exhibition

Two speakers at a table during an AI panel discussion, one gesturing mid-sentence beside an open laptop. — ai panel

Education

Concordia University

BFA, Computation Arts

2021 — 2025

Montreal

react native

A studio workbench covered in wires, hand tools, a speaker driver, and electronics mid-build. — tidy work

concordia app

Black-and-white mockups of Trainer, an AI-coached fitness app, showing an onboarding chat and a week-by-week plan. — ai ux study

capstone project

Strate School of Design

Interaction Design

2024

Paris

Exchange semester

A classroom display showing an Unreal Engine blueprint graph during a VR crash course. — vr prototyping

Phone mockups of MyFresh notifications and emails proposing new times for a tennis game and a grocery run during a heatwave. — prototyping

vivatech

A Figma board synthesising MyFresh features: interactive map, intelligent planning, and MAIF integration. — brainstorming

Moodboards for the MAIF heatwave brief, with collaged photos sorted by behaviour, users, dangers, and design decisions. — moodboarding

Shayne and his fiancée Joy under the chandeliers of the Palais Garnier foyer in Paris. — enjoying paris

Two students interviewing a passer-by with a phone recorder in the Jardin des Tuileries. — user research

A Figma board mapping government, private, NGO, and citizen actors in France's climate-adaptation ecosystem. — researching