My Story
Kim is born and raised in the Philippines, graduated with Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration major in Management, and is a digital creator based in Calgary Alberta.
Kim has been in the digital media industry since 2012, jumpstarting her career by joining a digital startup in Singapore (called Millennial Media, now part of Verizon Media). After thriving and leading the ad operations and launching mobile ads for different global brands, she decided to venture out and move to the Middle East. She had an opportunity to move to Dubai and landed a promising role in digital media planning from one of the biggest digital media agencies in the world, Dentsu Aegis Network. She continued to manage a couple of global brands and became more immersed in digital strategies - creating media rationales, working directly with publishers, and presenting robust media approaches to clients.
In early 2018, she had a vision of giving entrepreneurship a try, and so she fiercely did. She launched The Digital Gig, a boutique digital agency solely run by her, empowering local businesses in Dubai creating unique digital experiences through her powerful insights, tools, and strategic digital solutions. The recession hits Dubai, and while still continuing to give services to clients, she grabbed an opportunity to work her way back to corporate, this time for a creative digital agency.
Shortly right when the pandemic started in 2020, she decided to move to a more customer-centric role as she truly enjoyed working alongside clients. She was then hired by a creative management platform from the United Kingdom called Ad-Lib.io (now a Smartly.io company) and started working as a Customer Success Manager.
Since Kim is a life-long learner, in 2021, she realized that she’s young and has so much to discover. She has the hunger to level up her digital skills in other areas of the industry like web design and development, and graphic design. She also wanted to dig deeper into her creativity by exploring her strength in photography, film, and videography. She moved across the globe and pursued a New Media Production and Design career at SAIT. Now, she finished the program while keeping herself active in the industry and worked as a Digital Media Specialist in one of the largest independent media planning and buying network in western Canada called Mediology.
The big bold move in the recent year is to shift gears from a client-facing role of curating strategies into getting Canadian experience in digital design, and eventually, slowly build up a Canadian-market portfolio, launch online programs to help aspiring creators and help the local business community of Calgary succeed in the digital landscape.