My Portfolio

Leadership, Communications, Production & Design

My career connects creative work with organizational purpose. These projects show how I’ve helped teams develop digital products, tell stories, build partnerships, and bring productions to life.

My role has varied from founder and executive to communicator, producer, and designer. Across that work, I’ve focused on understanding the audience, connecting people around a shared direction, and turning ideas into practical outcomes.

Thank you for your interest in my work.

Sincerely,

Chelsea O’Connor

Co-founder | Lead UI/UX Product Designer

Remote Buddy

Remote Buddy was developed to support remote-worker well-being through short, daily conversations with an AI-powered chatbot and an employer dashboard. As co-founder and lead UI/UX product designer, I shaped the product’s user experience around the needs of remote workers.

Product Development Manager | Supporting UI Designer

Medical App

This medical app was designed to help people track and visualize health information. As product development manager and supporting UI designer, I coordinated feature development and built on an existing set of designs.

VP | Product Owner | CXO

muuvment

muuvment was developed as a social impact and media platform connecting people around positive change. As VP, product owner, and CXO, I helped advance the early-stage company and represented it to partners and potential investors at Elevate, Buy Good Feel Good Expo, SOCAP, and Social Finance Forum.

Read testimonials from the team.

COO/CXO | Branding | Communications | Client Projects

apexacore.com

Apexacore provides software and mobile development services. As COO/CXO, I managed client projects spanning web and mobile while developing the company’s branding and communications. I designed its branded materials and scripted and art-directed a promotional video for its outsourced services offering.

Director of Communications | Video Editor

The Abolish Foundation

The Abolish Foundation supports survivors of forced labour and exploitation. As Director of Communications and video editor, I coordinated communications with NGO partners in India and edited videos for screenings and successful fundraising campaigns.

Website Design | Branding | Copy

Laura Young

Laura Young offers numerology readings and life-mapping services. I developed her website, branding, and copy around a nature-inspired visual direction, supporting a practice that also reached an audience of 2,000 newsletter subscribers.

Associate Producer | Communications

Wishing Step Pictures

The Price of Cheap explores forced labour and exploitation in the textile supply chain. As Associate Producer with Wishing Step Pictures, I helped coordinate the production and post-production of this international feature-length documentary.

b2b & saas UI/UX Product Design | communications | founder

DIVE Communications

DIVE was a mobile and web communications platform designed to gather instant video responses to text messages. As founder and product designer, I designed the iOS and Android apps, online aggregator, and video editor so organizations could collect audience contributions and combine them into a single video.

I raised approximately $1 million in private equity and grants. The venture won Invest Ottawa’s Youth Sparc award in 2015, and I represented it at TechCrunch in New York City.

Online Producer | Head Writer

Totally Random

Totally Random combined collaborative photo editing, social interaction, and a comedy web series for creative kids. As online producer and head writer, I helped develop the platform and series and represented the project internationally.

Produced by Mountain Road Productions with Canada Media Fund Experimental Stream funding, the project received Yorkton and Pixie Awards and was shortlisted for an iKids Best Web/App Series award at Kidscreen.

Community Producer | Writer | Host

The Reel Cut

The Reel Cut gave Ottawa’s independent filmmaking community a platform on RogersTV. As community producer, writer, and host, I developed and presented the comedic interview show and coordinated its on-location production.