LIVE PROFESSIONAL PORTFOLIO
Business Analyst / Product Owner
Steven Duchene’s portfolio makes complex software work tangible through business rules, decision-ready artifacts, and selected case studies.
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PROFESSIONAL PORTFOLIOS / BEYOND THE RÉSUMÉ
Your experience
deserves more
than a résumé.
We turn professional experience into thoughtful digital portfolios that make your expertise, accomplishments, and story easier to understand — and harder to forget.
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For professionals whose careers are more interesting than a list of bullet points.
FIRST MEASURE / IN MOTION
See the experience.
Not just the résumé.
A look at how First Measure gives your experience more context, clarity, and room to be remembered.
Most professional experience is trapped in documents.
A résumé records where you've been. It rarely has room to explain the thinking, craft, judgment, creativity, leadership, or impact behind the work.
Your portfolio should do more than repeat your résumé. It should give people a reason to understand your work — and remember you.
THE RÉSUMÉ
Experience → Bullet Points → Filed Away
Useful. Necessary. Limited.
→
THE PORTFOLIO
Experience → Story → Evidence → Remembered
Context. Personality. Proof.
Different careers. Different portfolios.
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Measure what matters.
Show what matters.
Every portfolio begins with what you've actually done. From there, we identify the professional story worth building around.
How it works
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Understand
We review your experience, goals, and audience to understand the professional story your portfolio needs to tell.
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Discover
We identify the evidence, gaps, and opportunities to show the thinking and capability behind your experience.
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Design
We develop your positioning, content structure, and individual design direction—with your approval before production.
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Produce
We build from the approved direction, review the portfolio with you, and check its desktop, tablet, and mobile experience.
Submitting an intake starts the planning process. It does not create a purchase commitment. Your package, scope, and final price are confirmed before work begins.
Your profession
should shape
your portfolio.
A teacher shouldn't have the same portfolio as an engineer. A consultant shouldn't look like a designer. We adapt the story, structure, and visual language to the work you actually do.
01Business & ConsultingStrategy · analysis · operations
02EducationTeaching · curriculum · outcomes
03HealthcarePractice · expertise · credentials
04Project ManagementInitiatives · delivery · leadership
05Design & CreativeWork · process · concepts
06EngineeringRequirements · design · projects
07ResearchQuestions · methods · findings
08And beyondFinance · law · trades · nonprofit · more
Choose the level of presence you need.
Every portfolio starts with your real experience. Choose how deeply we develop and present the work behind it.
Essential
For a polished professional presence beyond LinkedIn and the résumé — a clear, complete introduction to you and your work.
Signature
For work that benefits from deeper explanation: the projects, decisions, accomplishments, and processes behind your experience.
Both packages include a custom professional portfolio, professional positioning, résumé / CV integration, and responsive design.
| Your portfolio | Essential$249+ | Signature$449+ |
|---|---|---|
| Best for | A polished professional presence | A deeper demonstration of the work behind your experience |
| Highlighted projects or accomplishments | Up to 3 | Up to 6 |
| Sections | Core portfolio sections | Core sections, plus additional custom sections when justified |
| Story & content | Professional positioning built around your experience | Everything in Essential, plus up to 3 case studies, more customized visual storytelling, and more extensive content development |
| Revision rounds | 1 | 2 |
| Delivery choice | Build Only or Build & Launch (+$100) | Build Only or Build & Launch (+$100) |
Final scope and price are confirmed before work begins.
Start Your PortfolioWHAT YOU RECEIVEYour portfolio.
Your portfolio.
Your source files.
See what a professional portfolio can look like.
Four sample portfolios and one live professional portfolio. Explore how the work, audience, and person shape each presentation.
EDUCATION · SAMPLE PORTFOLIO
Elementary Educator
Built around instructional practice, reflection, classroom evidence, and professional development.
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BUSINESS · SAMPLE PORTFOLIO
Project Manager
Initiatives, delivery decisions, and stakeholder leadership give the work a clear project-by-project structure.
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CREATIVE · SAMPLE PORTFOLIO
Designer / Creative Professional
Selected work, concepts, and creative decisions put visual thinking at the center of the presentation.
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ARCHITECTURE · FICTIONAL SAMPLE PORTFOLIO
Project Architect
Project evidence, technical coordination, and adaptive reuse organize a portfolio around architectural practice.
View PortfolioDon't just tell them.
Show them.
Interviews often ask candidates to describe what they've done. A portfolio gives you another option: show them.
When an interviewer asks about a project, challenge, decision, or accomplishment, your portfolio can become a visual reference point for the conversation.
“Tell me about a time you solved a difficult problem.”
→
Project → Challenge → Approach → Evidence → Result
→
“Let me show you what I was dealing with.”
INTERVIEW-READY EVIDENCE
Could you use this page to answer an interview question?
That is one of the questions we ask when deciding what belongs in your portfolio. Your work should not simply be displayed. It should be usable.
Evidence over buzzwords.
Story over chronology.
Profession over template.
Strong presentation without invented experience.
We can reconstruct, visualize, and demonstrate supported capabilities when original work cannot be shared — but we don’t manufacture professional history.
01Real experience
We work from what you've actually done.
02Clear positioning
We make your value easier to understand.
03Thoughtful design
We design for the person, not the category.
04Portable ownership
You receive the source files and control your site.
STEVEN DUCHENE
A thoughtful process.
Led by a real person.
Founder of First Measure · Product Owner · Software Designer
First Measure started with a question I kept coming back to: How do you show what someone can actually do when a résumé only gives you a few lines to explain it?
I wanted to build something that could bring together the work, decisions, accomplishments, and evidence behind a person’s experience—and turn it into a story people could actually explore. That idea became First Measure: measure what matters, show what matters.
You’ll work directly with me from the initial review through launch. I’ll help identify what matters, organize the evidence, and shape a portfolio that reflects your individual experience rather than forcing it into a template.
View Steven’s portfolioReady to make your
experience easier to see?
Send your résumé or CV and we'll start by identifying the professional story worth building around.
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