Experience

Creative Strategist, Duo Consulting– April 2011 to Current
Responsible for facilitating creative strategic thinking at Duo Consulting. This includes creating freshness and leading by design. As well as facilitating creative sessions internally and with client’s in order to aggregate, synthesize and plan a strategy that works for their product or service. Planning, facilitation and execution of deep dive user research projects and practices.

User Experience Designer, Duo Consulting– December 2008 to April 2011
Responsibilities include educating client on design principles, design of information architecture design, interface design, user experience research and strategy, visual design and overall recommendations. Develop key presentations on design strategy best practices. Use user-centered research for the purpose of aligning design strategy with human behavior and advocating a more strategic plan for design and development.

Freelance Problem Solver – Problem Solved, LLC – May 2007 to Current
Freelance Problem Solver, making everyday processes easier for people to understand, use and adapt to. Projects include; usability consulting and planning sessions, design sprints and prototypes, creative direction, web and application design and video production.

Lead User Experience Designer, Pearson Inc. – May 2007 to May 2008
Worked across multiple business units and disciplines to build consensus. Design and development of multi-lingual digital educational products, including Scott Foresman enVision Math™. Pioneered a new digital platform, including innovations to search and social media experience. Responsibilities; user interface, use case and roadmap development for the product life cycle, business unit presentations, style guides, functional specifications documents, interactive activity templates, production requirements, user-centered design studies and Flash prototypes.

Graphic Design Research Specialist, Pearson Inc. – April 2006 to April 2007
Hired as a designer to begin a research pilot program in explorations of on-line learning. Employed a User Centered Design methodology working directly with students to craft a prototype environment. The prototype formed the central piece of a presentation to Pearson Education’s senior management and was one of the leading factors that led to a rethinking of Pearson’s investment strategy as it applies to education technology.

Director of Marketing, Solid Rock Surfaces – January 2005 to May 2006, Contract work through 2008
In-house design guru. Logo and collateral design, commercial director and producer. Publication design for quarterly industry magazine, Stone Interiors. Conceptualize and implement new marketing campaigns. Art direction and advertisement design. Collaboration on national marketing program for Technistone® USA.

Technology

Flash / Photoshop / Illustrator / InDesign / Dreamweaver / Fireworks / Microsoft Office / Keynote / Omni-Graffle Pro / Acrobat / Motion / Basic Knowledge of CSS / HTML / XML / SCORM / AJAX / Actionscript 2 / JQuery

Education

2006 - The Art Institute of Phoenix / Phoenix, AZ / Bachelor of Arts in Graphic Design

Awards

2011 UX for Good / People’s Choice Award / Public Education

2010 Tech & Learning Magazine’s / Award of Excellence / Prentice Hall Literature (PHLit Online) / Miller & Levine Biology Digital Path / Pearson, Inc.

2009 Association of Educational Publishers / Distinguished Achievement Award for Curriculum in Technology / Golden Lamp Award Finalist / Technology Innovations Finalist / Miller and Levine Biology / Pearson Inc.

2008 Association of Educational Publishers / Distinguished Achievement Award for Curriculum in Technology /
enVision Math Digital / Pearson Inc.

2006 Best Portfolio / The Art Institute Of Phoenix

2005 Gold Addy Winner / Student Category