WORK

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EXPERIENCE

Product Designer at Trunk Club October 2013 - Present

Information Architect at Razorfish June 2013 - October 2013

• Employ user-centered design practices for a fortune 50 financial services company
• Design rich, data heavy web-based application experiences
• Perform research and analysis to influence data-driven design choices
• Implement agile methodology for quick iteration and testing

Web Team Manager at The State News September 2012 - May 2013

Web DeveloperMay 2012 - September 2012

• Plan and design information architecture, wireframes, design documents
• Develop websites/web-apps using HTML5, LESS, JavaScript, Twig
• Manage projects for State News web development initiatives as well as several other universities
• Oversee student web team

User Experience Designer at MSU College of Arts and Letters May 2012 - September 2012

• Plan, design, and develop university web applications
• Make analytics driven user interaction decisions on current web applications
• Work closely with designers, developers, and content creators to produce a seamless user experience

Lead UX Analyst at RHS Marketing Communications May 2011 - May 2012

• Develop, test, and report heuristic evaluations for user experience on websites for specific user bases
• Measure and report on web analytics for user/brand specific websites
• Generate and manage web content for user-based web applications

Vice President at Spartan Web Authoring Team May 2012 - May 2013

Treasurer at Spartan Web Authoring Team January 2010 - May 2012

• Manage web development projects for non-profits and student organizations
• Work closely with president and other board members to develop meetings/workshops/etc.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Arts in Digital & Technical Writing • Design Specialization

Michigan State University • 2013

• Dean's List Fall 2010 - Spring 2013
• Cognates in design and telecommunications

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• UI/UX ( User Research/Testing | Wireframing | Prototyping | Information Architecture | Data Analysis )
• Web Development ( HTML5 | CSS3 | LESS | SASS | JavaScript | jQuery | PHP | SQL | Git )
• Content Management ( WordPress | Gryphon | Drupal )
• Graphic Design ( Photoshop | Illustrator | InDesign | Photo/Video Capturing and Editing )
• Expert knowledge of web standards and browser compatibility
• Good knowledge of Object-Oriented Design and MVC Architecture
• Familiar with ActionScript and Flash development
• Willing and able to learn new concepts and technologies, I stay adaptive and evolve with the web