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Airbnb Superhost
Year: 2025-current
Through our basement Airbnb suite, I welcome travellers from around the world into my home.
I regularly have fulfilling conversations with strangers from different countries, cultures, and professions.
CV
Chronological CV
A conventional CV view of Marianne Perreault's experience, education, projects, languages, and assessments.
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Work experience
Paid work
Independent Consultant - Marianne Perreault Enr.
Year: 2022-2024
Through my own consulting practice, I worked with technology organizations on user experience, business analysis, operations, and human development.
My mandates included designing internal software, translating human needs into technical requirements, supporting strategic decisions, leading UX research, participating in hiring processes, and providing professional coaching with written recommendations to leadership.
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Professional Coach - SCAL Informatique
Year: 2022-2024
I accompanied an IT consulting startup's employees through professional growth and self-reflection, bringing together my interests in psychology, communication, and organizational systems.
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User Experience Designer - Université du Québec
Year: 2022-2023
As an independent UX design consultant, I contributed to the reconstruction of large and complex legacy enterprise applications.
I designed interfaces and prototypes, conducted user interviews, collaborated with developers and analysts, and advocated for user-centered design practices.
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Analyst Programmer - Gestisoft
Year: 2021-2022
At Gestisoft, I held a hybrid role between technology, operations, and organizational development during a period of growth.
I contributed to strategic planning, coordinated technical priorities, improved internal processes, designed onboarding systems, strengthened knowledge management, and supported client relationships.
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Technical Analyst - GIRO
Year: 2019-2021
My role evolved into a broader technical and organizational position connecting software, operations, legal requirements, and knowledge management.
I coordinated internal and outsourced teams, developed internal tools, contributed to cloud and GDPR documentation, created testing plans, and built knowledge systems.
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Customer Support Technician - GIRO
Year: 2017-2019
I entered the professional world at 18 through technical support, serving international enterprise software clients in French and English.
Through remote and on-site mandates in Canada and Europe, I learned how technology exists inside real organizations, with real people, constraints, frustrations, and cultures.
I installed and supported enterprise software, travelled to France and Belgium to assist clients, wrote bilingual documentation, and helped train new employees.
Education
Education
Bachelor of International Political Economy
Year: 2026-current
After nearly a decade working in technology and entrepreneurship, I'm returning to university to study the systems that shape societies.
International Political Economy allows me to bring together long-standing interests in economics, politics, technology, culture, psychology, and systems thinking.
I hope it will allow me to apply my thinking to hard problems with other curious minds and allow me to contribute to the world of academia.
Education
Opinion Writing Course - Columbia+
Year: 2026-current
I am completing an opinion writing course through Columbia+, exploring how to transform complex ideas, personal experiences, and societal observations into clear public writing.
As someone who has always used reading as a way to understand the world, this course helps me develop the craft of turning reflection into pieces that can participate in broader social conversations.
Education
Mon Commerce en Ligne - École des entrepreneurs du Québec
Year: 2024
I completed the Mon Commerce en Ligne (My E-commerce) program, combining personalized coaching with self-paced training on e-commerce strategy, digital tools, marketing, and online business development.
I enrolled in this program with my Heartfelt Words project.
Education
Diploma of Collegial Studies - Business Computing (incomplete)
Year: 2017
I briefly studied Programming at Collège de Rosemont in Montréal before choosing to go work in a company instead.
The experience taught me that I learn best through complexity, real-world problems, autonomy, and rapid application.
Education
High School Diploma and Governor General's Academic Medal
Year: 2016
I completed my high school diploma with the highest academic average in my school, receiving the Governor General's Bronze Medal.
Education
Diploma of Vocational Studies - IT Support
Year: 2013-2016
At 15, I entered an accelerated pathway combining my final two years of high school with a vocational diploma in IT support.
The program introduced me to computer systems, networking, databases, programming, technical troubleshooting, telecommunications, and customer support.
More importantly, it brought me into the professional world at a young age and started a journey through technology, software, consulting, design, and entrepreneurship.
Education
International program
Year: 2003-2014
From primary school through my first three years of high school, I was enrolled in a highly competitive international program emphasizing global perspectives, cultural openness, and additional language learning.
Projects
Projects
Heartfelt words
Year: 2024-2025
Heartfelt Words was a collection of tales accessible through an e-learning platform powered using Shopify.
These tales aimed at teaching adults and teens concepts of psychology and self-development, spanning from communication and self-esteem to cognitive biases or intrinsic motivation.
The project was later shut down after the project's scope exceeded sustainable solo-founder capacity, following an early shift in co-founder availability. The tales have since been published online as a free resource.
Projects
Farmvania
Year: 2022-current
Long-running animal, farming, and sanctuary-themed game concept.
It evolved from a farming and trading concept toward a cooperative, ethical, biodiversity-oriented, sanctuary and permaculture game.
It still has a lot of work needed before release and I might decide to simply publish the assets as a public collection instead. It spans more than 300 high-quality digital illustrations by me and a custom-programmed card generator that works from a Directus database to generate printable assets.
Projects
Idea garden
Year: 2026-current
This website is a public collection of hundreds of idea-notes that I encountered, formulated, imagined or interacted with.
They are meant to inspire and elicit curiosity in other intellectuals. They were distilled from my personal notes, artefacts and conversations using AI.
Projects
Sapience
Year: 2025
Sapience was a systems thinking blog meant to expose large concepts with a simplified vocabulary and examples.
The tone is lyrical and the articles are short. The blog has since been retired in favor of the Idea Garden.
Projects
AI helpers
Year: 2025-current
My AI helpers are a collection of custom GPTs and prompt systems, including tools to learn new ways of living, challenge assumptions, reduce sycophancy or teach specific mindsets.
I also developed simpler tools to generate uniform brand copy, reduce manual labour in knowledge tasks, build products or prepare market research plans. They span personal and professional realms.
Projects
Social Media Paradox
Year: 2026
Social Media Paradox is a bilingual interactive learning experience about social media, wellbeing, attention, platform incentives, and healthier public choices.
The project maps social media as a system rather than only a personal habit, showing how human needs, creators, platform companies, governments, recommendation algorithms, advertising revenue, engagement goals, wellbeing risks, and regulation interact.
It invites visitors to ask what social media might look like if it were optimized for people's happiness, and to imagine healthier platform design, public policy, community life, and personal choices.
Projects
Language immersion extension
Year: 2026
This is a personal Chrome extension I developed to simulate linguistic immersion in my browser.
It automatically translates a page and keeps the source language as blurred lines which show the source text on hover, allowing for natural exposure even with a very limited vocabulary in the target language.
Languages
Languages
English
C2 certified in English through the Duolingo English Test, with a score of 160.
I use English comfortably in professional, academic, creative, and intellectual contexts.
Languages
French
French is my native language.
I completed secondary-level French with strong results, including 95% in Secondary V and 92% in Secondary IV.
Languages
Languages I'm exploring
Beyond French and English, I have an ongoing curiosity for languages as doors into different ways of seeing the world.
I have beginner foundations in Italian, shaped by immersion and family proximity; Spanish, first introduced through several years of school; German, through a few months of classes and self-study; and Swedish, through early independent exploration.
I hold these languages less as finished skills and more as living invitations into other ways of thinking.
Assessments
Assessments
Neuropsychological profile
A neuropsychological assessment revealed a highly heterogeneous cognitive profile, with particular strengths in perceptual reasoning, abstract problem solving, and conceptual thinking.
My strongest abilities lie in identifying patterns and understanding complex systems.
The assessment did not identify a neurodevelopmental disorder, but highlighted a long-standing atypical cognitive profile and a tendency to experience social difference.
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Psychometric profile
A confidential professional psychometric assessment placed my general cognitive aptitude in the high range of its normative sample (STANINE 8).
It highlighted particular strengths in numerical reasoning, spatial orientation, verbal reasoning, deduction, and analogical reasoning.
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CliftonStrengths
My top five CliftonStrengths are Empathy, Positivity, Ideation, Developer, and Learner.
They describe the way I most naturally move toward people and ideas: by feeling into human experience, looking for possibility, generating connections, noticing potential, and continuously learning.