I'm a multi-disciplinary designer and creative technologist that's passionate about designing and prototyping interactive experiences that empower people and organizations.
I have been making clients and employers happy for 13 years with top-notch design solutions, clear communication, and leadership.
When I'm not absorbed in design, I am likely playing music, drawing, or traveling.
Led UX / UI design for this educational technology startup (Research Opportunities for High School Students)
Facilitated a rebranding and visual refresh of website, web app, and native app
Conducted interviews and usability testing with dozens of mentors and students
Designed and facilitated numerous shipped features to create a world-class passion project experience for mentors and students, including tools for sharing resources, scheduling sessions, and a brand new native app
Company has impacted the lives of more than 2400 students from 44 countries
Lead UX / UI design for this educational technology startup (virtual classroom tool).
Rebranded company and collaborated with mid-level UX designer to produce a more cohesive style guide.
Designed and coded company's front-facing brochure site.
Conducted semi-structured interviews and usability tests with more than 30 teachers and students.
Designed and prototyped numerous features for remote learning including quiz tool, chalkboard, attendance, etc.
Wrote articles on educational technology trends.
Freelance UI / UX design, front-end development, branding, and illustration services with 10 years of experience working on projects for more than 50 clients including ~15 startups.
Met with clients and executives directly to discover needs and objectives, and honed skills as a highly effective communicator, leader, and facilitator of consistently successful design solutions.
Assisted various startups in launching websites and apps, building brands, and raising venture capital.
Entreprenuerial projects include: DrawDojo - An educational app for learning drawing skills
Lead the design and development of “Sketchtivity” an educational platform for teaching the fundamentals of design sketching and improving creativity in people. It has been used by over 1000 students at 3 universities and 3 high schools.
Provided design and front-end development assistance with an intelligent educational software called "Mechanix" which is for teaching freebody diagrams. The software has been used by over 1000 students at five different universities.
Designed and developed another intelligent educational software called "FossilSketch" which is for teaching micropaleontology. It has not been deployed yet.
Designed and developed an PIXL (Mars 2020 Rover) XRF simulation interface for Aoleon Lab.
Award-winning design and research, and publications at top conferences around the world.
Lead UX / UI design and front-end development for this healthcare startup.
Helped company raise more than $450,000 in venture capital.
Designed and developed a simple and clean patient-facing application to gather data on seniors and match them with best healthcare plans.
Designed and developed innovative visualizations for predictive analytics dashboard which can prevent providers from losing money.
Worked with Holger Winnemoeller in Creative Intelligence Lab to design and develop a novel image editing creativity support tool. This tool leverages modularized Photoshop commands and a simple drag-and-drop user interface to make sophisticated image editing much easier for novices.
Filed for US Patent as co-inventor
Worked with AI and Ink applied research group to conceptualize, design, and develop a novel sketch-based application leveraging Windows Ink
Collaborated with Ken Hinckley and Michel Pahud in MSR to conduct a user study of the application with 20 participants.
Filed for 2 US Patents as lead inventor
Collaborated on several client projects for the Atlanta studio of this service design firm. Work involved research, interviews, journey mapping, persona creation, sketching, wireframing, prototyping and visual design.
Projects included a mortgage buying application for USAA, report outage and bill paying experiences for Florida Power & Light, and a booking experience for Celebrity Cruiselines
Assisted sophomore undergrad Industrial Design students in their main studio course. Responsibilities included helping them with research, ideation, giving them constructive feedback, and grading. Used my knowledge and experience to ensure they get in to good habits, break bad habits, and are dedicated to process.
Performed research in the area of advancing spatial reasoning and creative skills in engineers through learning sketching – Specifically by using educational software. Closely related to my Master’s Thesis and PhD dissertation.
Hybrid UX Designer role in which I designed and prototyped a new profile system concept for StubHub users called “My Hub”.
Worked closely with a Project Manager intern to conceptualize a site-wide personalization framework, with the goal of making StubHub a more personally catered experience for event discovery and planning.
Assisted UX team on several projects related to the responsive redesign of StubHub website by exploring page designs with sketches, wireframes, and prototypes.
Assisted UX team in the design of two responsive websites for national brands during a 3-month contract position with information architecture, wireframes, task-flows, and sitemaps.
Led the design services of this growing digital agency as their first in-house designer.
Rebranded the company and its entire physical and digital presence, leading to a more clear, concise, and cohesive brand identity.
Directed a wide variety of projects for around 30+ local and national clients involving responsive web design, mobile site/app design, graphic design, and branding during a time in which the company tripled in size.
Supported design team and worked on a variety of commercial LED lighting products. Developed concepts for a family of products for InVue, re-imagining their high-end outdoor lighting brand.
