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Portrait of Jesse Hammond

My Story

2024 – Now

Product Manager

Code for Canada

Team lead managing complex service and technical projects.

  • Workers' Compensation Board of Nova ScotiaLed a 10-person team across 20+ sprints, consolidating 3,000+ legacy pages into a ~100-page one-stop-shop for injured workers and service providers.
  • Kativik Regional GovernmentCo-led design and project management on a water delivery dispatch app for 13 Nunavik communities, built with drivers and residents and working fully offline.
2022 – 2024

Senior UX Designer

Code for Canada

Deployed on federal government projects for facilitation, research, capacity building, and user experience design.

  • Royal Canadian Mounted Police — National Cybercrime SystemLed research, scoping, and design of an AI model to triage 200+ daily fraud and cybercrime reports, reducing review time by ~70%.
  • Royal Canadian Mounted Police — Cybercrime and Fraud Reporting SystemDesign lead on how the public reports cybercrime and fraud in Canada. Ran a national study with 75 users and usability testing that raised the System Usability Score from 68 to 82.
2022 – 2024

Founder

Ten Design Group

Co-founded a studio serving early-stage companies. Scoped, priced, and delivered engagements end to end, with design systems built to survive handoff.

2021 – 2022

UX Designer

CompTrak (now HRSoft)

Led design across three new products and a full technology re-architecture. Managed 4 front-end engineers and drove adoption of an organization-wide design system.

Work

AI Model for Cybercrime Triage

Justice & Public Safety

Designed an AI system to process 200+ daily fraud reports for the RCMP, reducing review time by ~70%.

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Canada Cybercrime Reporting

Justice & Public Safety

Taking the national fraud & cybercrime reporting platform from beta to live with 75 diverse users.

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Workers' Compensation Redesign

Civic Infrastructure

Led a 10-person team across 20+ sprints, consolidating 3,000+ legacy pages into a ~100-page one-stop-shop for workers and service providers.

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Water Dispatch for Nunavik

Civic Infrastructure

Piloting a digital dispatch app for water delivery in remote Inuit communities in Canada's north.

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AI & Agile Workshops

Capacity Building

Designed and facilitated four workshops for Grey County municipal government staff.

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Tender Screening Tool

Tools

Internal tool built for the firm's own delivery practice. It triages inbound procurement opportunities against fit criteria so the team can focus on relevant tenders without manual searching.

Digital Maturity Assessment Framework

Tools

A structured framework for assessing the digital maturity of projects and teams across service design capability, agile adoption, data practices, and accessibility. Produces a clear baseline and prioritized path forward. Built from patterns across six government engagements and actively in use.

Government Open Data Aggregator

Tools

A single-source application that pulls and synthesizes data from 27 Canadian government data sources into one place, cutting the time researchers and policy teams spend hunting across fragmented portals.

Civic Tech Montréal

Community

Co-founded and organizes Civic Tech Montréal, a community bringing together technologists, designers, and public servants working on civic problems. Runs regular events, workshops, and project-based volunteer sessions.

Let’s build together