WORK
RESUME (PDF)
EXPERIENCE
Product Designer at Trunk Club October 2013 - Present
- Design and develop interfaces for both internal and client facing experiences
- Introduce multivariate testing to drive interface design
- Assist iOS engineers with interface designs and assets
- Ensure all product experiences create a cohesive ecosystem for users
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
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 ( HTML5 | CSS3 | HAML | SASS | JavaScript | jQuery | CoffeeScript | PHP | SQL | Git )
- UX ( User Testing | Wireframing | Prototyping | Information Architecture | Analytics )
- Graphic Design ( Photoshop | Illustrator | InDesign | Photo/Video Capturing and Editing )
- Expert knowledge of web standards and browser compatibility
- Experience in Object-Oriented Design and MVC Architecture
- Willing and able to learn new concepts and technologies
