Standard Resume
Work Experience
Auddia, Inc
Oct 2021 - Current
- Taking broad, conceptual ideas and turn them into useful and valuable experiences for our users
- Designing and communicating the product's vision to the team using mock-ups, documentation, prototype, animation, and presentations
- Establishing and maintaining partnerships with Engineering marketing to deliver meaningful, impactful metrics-driven solutions
- Familiarity and execution of WCAG standards to provide and equitable and inclusive experience to all users
- Conducting research and gathering real-world inputs from listeners and competition to inform features and product direction
- Construction of prototypes, and delivery of concepts as a stimulus to stakeholders, investors, and users to make solid product decisions
- High-level, exciting visual & UI design that drives ease of use and delight for our user base
San Diego State University
Oct 2021 - Current
- Delivering live in-person classes and tutoring for UIUX students
- Offering constructive, encouraging, and timely communication
- Acting as an advocate to students, working to ensure a fun, enjoyable, and positive learning environment
- Planning and executing relevant supplemental educational activities that support assigned curriculum and learning objectives
- Providing individualized instruction to each student by promoting interactive learning
- Encouragement of complex thinking, participation, and discussion
- Regularly assessing, evaluating, and reporting on student progress
- Constantly developing my domain knowledge across trends and changing industry standards
Detroit Labs
Apr 2019 - Oct 2021
Goal-driven UX & UI design for various clients in various industries. Focusing on outcomes that matter for users and business objectives, while providing a delightful experience that creates an emotional relationship between the user and the service.
- Turning user needs, business objectives, research, data, and other user insights into delightful experiences
- Scoping, planning, and leading UX exercises from discovery of initial requirements to creating hypotheses, design, validation, and delivery to & integration with dev teams
- Facilitating creative workshops and sessions with clients and cross-disciplinary teams
- Designing concepts and deliverables for various artifacts and in various design applications
- Strategy for user research, user testing, and conducting in-person and remote interviews - live, and recorded.
- Pitching and presentation to stakeholders of various levels
- Enriching user experiences with thoughtful, emotion-evoking, relationship-building approaches
- Bringing great passion to visual design, as well as illustration and motion graphics
Ibotta, Inc.
Jun 2014 - Apr 2019
- Turning complex and broad challenges into innovative, delightful, useful experiences
- Conceptualizing and designing exciting visual UI across a broad range of interface design projects, with an emphasis on interaction, design systems, and conventions
- Generating simple and elegant interactive experiences from sketch, to diagram, to wireframes, and exciting high-fidelity mockups
- Exploring and reviewing multiple approaches with product team and stakeholders, ensuring logical, feasible, and engaging solutions
- Close collaboration with design team, PMs, writers, developers, and engineers
- Incorporating research, analysis, and data to guide design decisions
- Delivering low fidelity, exploratory, and finished UI mockups for various testing methodologies and programs
- Providing informal leadership to peers, sharing knowledge, and cultivating learning
- Creating purposeful, integrated, and delightful motion graphics designed to evoke, emphasize, and reveal
Contract & Freelance Art Direction + Design
Jan 2010 - Jun 2014
Contract & freelance designer for creative agencies, ad agencies, PR agencies, and businesses around Denver, CO, Detroit, MI, and Los Angeles.
AIGA Colorado
Jun 2015 - Apr 2017
Executing the creative vision for AIGA Colorado for category and cross-brand programs. Collaborate with key stakeholders across brand, social, education and event teams to translate brand strategies and equity into all physical and visual elements of product. Direct reporting to the Communications Director and AIGA CO President.
C.H. Robinson Worldwide, Inc.
May 2006 - Feb 2012
Providing customers with transportation and logistics solutions for all modes, and for the entire logistics process. Growing current accounts, and pursuing opportunities for new business. transportation sales at C.H. Robinson Worldwide, Inc.
Education
Western Michigan University
2002 - 2006
Art Institute of Colorado
Mar 2012
Nielson Norman Group
Studies include:
UX Leadership
Information Architecture
Lean UX and Agile
Ideation Techniques for UX Design
Designing Influence
Cooper U
Projects
Skills
- Product Design
- UX Design
- UI Design
- Workshop Facilitation
- Mentorship
- UX Research
- Motion Graphics
- Art Direction
- Graphic Design
- Illustration