Collaborative Product Designer with expertise in determining functionality and enhancements. Knowledgeable in creating production-ready designs. Offering a successful career history comprising more than 10 years.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Senior Product Designer
Quorum Analytics
Washington, DC
11.2021 - Current
Brainstormed with peers and other members of design team to determine enhancements and product features.
Suggested enhancements to product design that would improve user experience.
SENIOR UI/UX ENGINEER
Roll
01.2018 - Current
Currently supporting three Cross-Functional Teams where I am responsible for ideation, research, visual design and iterations on projects that interact with the consumer
Created and owned KPIs that fully supported the company’s rallying cry of increasing account creations for the quarter
Resulting in a 50% increase of organic signups through the compendium
Led an effort to create and maintain a design system that influenced all Roll20 products (web app, mobile app and social media)
This decreased the amount of time developers needed to go from design to code by utilizing remade UI components and elements.
UI/UX CREATIVE DIRECTOR
01.2016 - 01.2018
Supervised production of projects for both internal and external clients and be the go-to for any questions on all Creative Design/Development/Timeline issues from the Support and Sales teams
Collaborate with various departments to design marketing assets such as branding, infographics, communications, presentations, motion, video, environmental, print and digital
Teams with project managers to create a production budget and ensure the content is delivered within budget and to clients’ expectations
Organize and manage the workflow of the department to ensure day-to-day tactical items are executed on, and strategic high impact work is developed
Assist with digital asset management process and partner with the Asset Management team, to ensure assets are reviewed, stored, and securely managed
Work with team to provide job assignment/scope and workload balancing to ensure that the project objectives, budgets, and timelines can be met
Presented ideas to stakeholders iterating from rough concepts to detailed prototypes to final visual designs
Assume overall User Interface design & development of Web applications/ Web Apps, incorporating usability; comprehensive workflow, applying standards, using various tools to create graphical interfaces for web-based; rich client; and thick client applications.
UI/UX SENIOR DESIGNER
01.2013 - 01.2016
Redesigned the entire front-end of the company’s nine-year-old website making a more responsive website platform increased with the lead generation of 31%
Collaborated with agile, multi-disciplinary teams to evaluate the feasibility of proposed features and create phased approaches to development
Responsible for collaborating with managers in developing and communicating industry-leading digital creative concepts while balancing strategic development with online business objectives executing them from start to finish
Held creative leadership role on internal branding projects as well as for some of the nation’s largest automotive groups
Trained and mentored junior-level designers ensuring they were up-to-date with the latest design techniques and coding practices.
GRAPHIC DESIGNER
WEB
01.2007 - 01.2013
Responsible for designing and developing web pages and interactive marketing materials such as banner ads, landing pages, buttons, online promotions, and other marketing materials as requested in a fast-paced environment
Duties included HTML and CSS hand-coding, graphic design, UI design, and coordination with other internal development teams
Collaborated with multiple visual design style guides and OEM franchise compliancy’s to ensure continuity of site design across all consumer touch points
Designed web pages, print collateral, and email marketing templates used to create a new corporate image for company re-launch
Redesigned and unified marketing materials and collateral that gave rise to a new product image and elevated the brand to a more elegant corporate feel
Helped work on an integrated brand strategy, creating visual design concepts, defining product attributes and iconography, to creating detailed visual design specifications for implementation.
BannerView.comWEB DESIGNER
01.2005 - 01.2007
Developed graphic images and effects to achieve design goals for a variety of websites, PPC display ads, and newsletters
Worked directly with the client to establish project scope, interaction guidelines, and project timelines
Provided competitive market analysis on the website site and proposed suggestions to the design and available functionality
Performed routine updates, upgrades and overall maintenance of websites
Ensured accuracy of website content by thoroughly editing and cross-checking
Designed and developed clients’ proprietary website hosting control panel - still in use to this very day.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Digital Entertainment & Game Design
ITT Technical Institute
01.2005 - 01.2007
Associate of Science - Multimedia
ITT Technical Institute
01.2003 - 01.2005
Skills
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Software
Figma
Timeline
Senior Product Designer
Quorum Analytics
11.2021 - Current
SENIOR UI/UX ENGINEER
Roll
01.2018 - Current
UI/UX CREATIVE DIRECTOR
01.2016 - 01.2018
UI/UX SENIOR DESIGNER
01.2013 - 01.2016
GRAPHIC DESIGNER
WEB
01.2007 - 01.2013
Bachelor of Science - Digital Entertainment & Game Design