Meet the Faculty

Steve Griffith, Coordinator/Professor

Steve earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Soviet & East-European Studies from Carleton University in the early 1990s. Shortly after finishing his degree, he began working with a wide variety of client-side and server-side technologies to design and develop web sites and web applications. After a few years working for private IT Colleges, while still consulting with a variety of technology companies, he began teaching at Algonquin in late 2003 in the Interactive Multimedia, Interactive Multimedia Developer, Game Development and Bachelor of Information Technology programs. In 2011, Steve worked with a colleague to create the new Mobile Application Design & Development program to address the lack of training in the rapidly evolving web and mobile technology space. The MAD&D program became the first diploma program of it’s kind in Canada.

Tony Davidson, Professor

Tony began his career as part of a medical research team at Queens University that developed both the hardware and software for an ultrasound scanner used to measure carotid arterial blood flow. He later moved on to a variety of high level technology positions most notably as the Executive Director of Multimedia at Corel Corporation and CTO of ZIM Corporation.

Tony was responsible for the development and release of over 700 educational, entertainment, mobile and game titles. Most notably he was the original developer and inventor of Corel’s CD Creator, today that product is known as Roxio Creator. Tony was also instrumental in developing Corel’s Internet strategy, including the development of Corel’s Internet commerce server.

Teaching has always been a passion for Tony. He has taught for many years in a variety of College and University programs and for both public and private corporations. He received the Algonquin College Students Association Award for Teaching Excellence in 2009, has been nominated for the Capital Educators Award on three occasions and was also nominated as the “Best Lecturer in Ontario.”

Tony holds a Master’s degree in Education (M.Ed.) from the University of Prince Edward Island.

Su Cheng Lee

SuCheng began her digital product design career in the Supply Chain Management Enterprise Solutions industry. She later moved into data storage security and management, automobile inventory control, and recently, to education and applied research. Her design work appeared widely in various solutions used by McDonald’s, Walmart, Harley Davison, Johnson & Johnson, Kelloggs, Hershey, Hewlett-Packard, just to name a few. She led teams to design solutions that were as big as the virtual reality holo station, to a smartwatch, and a purely no-UI voice-based product.

SuCheng, as an award-winning user experience strategist and architect, is also passionate about innovative research and education. She has been teaching design courses in the School of Media and Design since 2008. Always, her goal in education has been to assist students to gain optimal results in employment upon graduation.

She enjoys mentoring junior UX practitioners; guiding local and international students; collaborating with industry partners to create hands-on learning opportunities for the college; coaching young entrepreneurs; and, leading applied research projects. The success of her students motivates her to be open-minded and continue learning so that she can help the students obtain current and desirable user experience design skills.

Adesh Shah

Adesh divides his professional time between imparting knowledge to future final-year Mobile Application Design and Development program graduates and being the Principal Investigator for the Data Analytics Research Centre at Algonquin College, researching Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Big Data. Being a graduate of the same program required Adesh to reflect critically on his pedagogical choices and think deeply about the kind of teacher he wanted to be that would benefit students in the industry. Besides his professional career, Adesh enjoys playing (poorly) and watching basketball, (road) bicycling, hiking, reading extensively, writing, enjoying good food, beer, and perfecting his evil laugh.

Adam Robillard

Adam Robillard bridges the gap between designer and developer. He is passionate about the entire website development process, from research and competitive analysis, all the way through the design, development and testing. Adam is a graduate of the Graphic Design program at Algonquin College and currently works at Spruce Creative, a digital marketing firm that focuses on working with Indigenous, community, and not-for-profit organizations.

Vladimir Cezar

Vladimir Cezar is a software engineer whose core concentrations are mobile development and web engineering. Vladimir graduated in Computer Science in the late 1990s in Brazil and has had many years of experience with different programming languages and technologies. He has worked for government departments as well as privately owned companies in the healthcare and education sectors. He has a passion for teaching and sharing what he has learned.