Portfolio
Process
Research
Understand the goals of the business and competitive landscape. Learn how people interact with the brand and product. Identify problems and strategic opportunities.
Design
Design a responsive interface focused on the user's needs and the goals of the business. Combine intuitive interactions and clean aesthetics to create a compelling product.
Iterate
Test designs with real customers in a tight feedback loop. Weigh learnings against experience and instinct. Refine the product to better meet user and business objectives.
Resume
I've been creating award-winning digital experiences for industry-leading brands for over 15 years. In my current role, I lead all aspects of design for a suite of library automation products that recently won an industry platinum award for its innovative approach to content cataloging.
Lead User Experience Designer
The Library Corporation
February 2011 – Present
Austin, TX
- Lead UX Designer for Library Solution, a suite of library automation software used by thousands of school and public libraries around the world.
- Led the design effort to modernize the product suite, which was a major factor in securing long term contracts from large organizations like Chicago Public Schools, Dallas Independent School District, and the Hawaii Department of Education.
- Engaged current users in research interviews and surveys to determine their most urgent needs.
- Led brainstorming sessions with product management to create personas and problem statements.
- Created wireframes to explore potential solutions to problem statements.
- Presented low fidelity prototypes to stakeholders to gain consensus on a solution.
- Continuously iterated on wireframes, based on feedback from users and stakeholders, to refine the solution.
- Presented high fidelity Photoshop mockups and Figma prototypes to the product management team and delivered them to developers along with detailed functional requirements.
- Created and documented a style guide of UI/UX patterns to provide the framework needed to create a visually and functionally seamless user experience across all products in the product suite.
- Collaborated with the Principal Developer to implement custom components (HTML/CSS/JS) for commonly used UI patterns, so they can be used consistently and be more easily maintained/updated across products.
- Lead designer for LS2 Cataloging, a cataloging product that won the 2018 Modern Library Awards Platinum award, which recognizes elite products and services that serve the library industry.
Art Director
The Barbarian Group
March 2010 – January 2011
New York, NY
Responsible for the interaction design, motion graphics, and front-end development of microsites to support marketing campaigns for new products from clients such as Samsung and Aquent.
- Samsung Galaxy S2 Campaign
- Samsung Wonderlab Campaign
Design Technologist
Cheil USA
January 2009 – March 2010
Ridgefield Park, NJ
Responsible for the interaction design and front-end development of microsites to support marketing campaigns for new products from clients such as Samsung and Hankook Tires.
- Samsung.com Homepage
- Samsung CNET Page
- Samsung WOW Challenge with Ze Frank
- Samsung 2009 NFL Campaign
- Samsung Text N' Tunes Campaign
Front-end Developer
Renegade
August 2006 – December 2008
New York, NY
Responsible for the interaction design and front-end development of microsites to support marketing campaigns for new products from clients such as Panasonic, Car & Driver, Redbox, Gale International, and Gilda's Club.
- Panasonic.com Redesign
- Panasonic Share the Air Campaign Microsite
- Panasonic Toughbook Campaign Microsite
- Songdo Touchscreen Map
- Office Administration App
- User Research
- Rapid Prototyping
- Information Architecture
- User Experience Design
- User Interface Design
- Usability Testing
- Lean UX
- Agile Development
- Figma
- Sketch
- Balsamiq
- Adobe Creative Suite
- Jira
- Google Suite
- HTML
- CSS
- Javascript
Lead designer for a library cataloging application that won the 2018 Modern Library Awards Platinum award, which recognizes elite products and services that serve the library industry.
Developed an application for Samsung, to promote a solar-powered phone, that allowed users to upload pictures of letters formed from shadows. These letters were used to create a dynamic shadow font, which was published in The 3D Type Book (2011) by London design studio FL@33.
Developer on team that won a WebAward for Outstanding Achievement in Web Development. Share the Air was a microsite of user generated content promoting Panasonic's sponsorship of the Dew Action Sports tour.
Bachelor of Fine Arts, New Media Design
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