About Me
I am a User Experience Designer who is passionate about visual and interaction design. I feel at home in the creative process, and love opportunities to engage visually with new and unique challenges and projects.
In my experience, collaboration at every stage helps create the best product. I tend to lean into projects that require the most outside-of-the box thinking, because I have a knack for problem solving in design. I also appreciate the opportunity to work with new software and hardware, because I am fascinated by consumer electronics, and the cutting edge of technology.
Outside of work hours I enjoy engrossing myself in fiction. I am a lover of film, television, and video games, and I try to write when I have the time. I am also teaching myself guitar, and have recently taken up sailing and golf.
Experience
Redacted, Inc. - Lead UX Designer
In my current, more agile role, I have expanded on my experience with data visualization and was promoted from Data Visualization Analyst to Senior and then Lead User Experience Designer. At present, I am the de facto lead of product design for our DecisionPoint and ConnectionPoint Business Intelligence suites. I have built a library of Design System standards and assets from the ground up, and I am regularly consulted by other teams for my design and data visualization expertise.
Designership - Ultimate Figma Masterclass
I learned the core skills and mindset of design thinking, empathizing, and ideating in two 5-week courses offered by the award winning IDEO global design firm.
IDEO - Foundations in Design Thinking
I learned the core skills and mindset of design thinking, empathizing, and ideating in two 5-week courses offered by the award winning IDEO global design firm.
Google - UX Design Certification
In this Google course offered through Coursera, I completed over 200 hours of instruction, activities & assessments that simulated real-world UX design scenarios.
CGI Federal, Inc. - Business Analyst
In my first role out of college I began as a Business Analyst, providing IT consultation to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Service. In a waterfall environment, I learned the ins and outs of each phase of a software development lifecycle, working with the team to design and develop new webpages, reports, and business logic for their Health Plan Management System. By the end of my tenure, I had been selected to lead a design team in a Tableau redesign and software migration of 10 dashboards hosting over 250 KPIs.
freeCodeCamp Responsive Web Design
In this free online course, I brushed up on the HTML and CSS skillset I had developed in high school and college.
Private University
What's Next
In my next role I hope to broaden my horizons, furthering my UX skillset by working on new and different projects. I believe current design trends are moving towards a greater implementation of gamification, which is a notion that excites me.
Toolkit
Figma
InVision
Miro
MicroStrategy
Sketch
Photoshop
DevOps
Tableau
Adobe XD
Prototyper
Jira
PowerBI
Framer
Procreate
