Eleanor Smith ♾🌈

Graduate Building Designer || Workshop Facilitator || Surtitle Supervisor || Passionate About Neurodiversity

Greater Melbourne Area

About

Eleanor integrates a diverse background in education, performing arts, design, innovation, and publishing. As an experience designer and facilitator, she's led international innovation programs and hackathons, mentored cross-cultural teams, and interviewed inspiring people including a Nobel Laureate, a Grammy nominee, and entrepreneurs in Australia, the US, UK, Singapore and Israel. She led the digital community transformation of Aussie scale-up HEX, launching their online community platform. She has produced and operated opera surtitles across the country, including three productions of Wagner’s Ring Cycle. Taking her design skills in a new direction, she’s currently completing studies in Building Design.

Experience

  • Opera Australia (14 yrs 7 mos)
    • Surtitle Supervisor & Operator
      Apr 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 4 mos

    • Surtitle Operator
      Jan 2012 - Apr 2023 · 11 yrs 4 mos

  • Final Year Student at Swinburne University of Technology
    Jan 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 7 mos

  • Melbourne Opera ()
    • Surtitle Designer & Operator
      Apr 2019 - Present · 7 yrs 4 mos

    • Surtitle Design — Wagner’s Ring Cycle (English & German)
      Nov 2022 - Apr 2023 · 6 mos

  • HEX (3 yrs 6 mos)
    • Experience Designer & Facilitator
      Sep 2022 - Apr 2023 · 8 mos

    • Program Lead
      Mar 2022 - Sep 2022 · 7 mos

      Designing and facilitating innovation programs and hackathons.

    • Project Lead, Community & Culture
      Jun 2021 - Apr 2022 · 11 mos

      Designing and launching HEX's digital community platform, HEX World. Designing and facilitating events.

  • Special Projects at Marshall White
    Jun 2014 - Dec 2017 · 3 yrs 7 mos

    Systems design for client gifting and auction results.