Showcase & Discover Creative Work

::Professional Experience::

Earth Economics
April 2012 - present
::Art Director/Director of User Experience::
Redesign of Seattle University's internal eserve web application. This application is used by Seattle University staff, faculty, students and agencies for Service Learning tracking and reporting. Re- sponsibilities include end-user surveys, task flow analysis, high level interaction modeling, supervi- sion and mentorship of itern designers in best practices in web application design, user experience and Section 508 Accessibility Standards.

Alere Wellbeing
::Lead Product Designer, User Experience::
December 2010 - Present
Analyzing user patterns & functional tasks to develop concept designs, storyboards, and high fidelity prototypes illustrating task flows, interaction modeling, and application architectures.

End-user research and persona development. Establishing best practices in desktop application design, Human Interface Guideline (HIG) authoring. Functional & Visual Specification (F-spec) authoring.

UI/UX fit and finish per product and per release milestones.

Microsoft
May 2007 – November 2010

::Graphic Designer 2, EXP User Experience Group::
Interactive prototypes of new product interfaces for focus groups and user studies.

Concept design, UX design, interaction specifications and HTML/CSS prototypes for internal facing resources codifying UX research for core products such as Visual Studio, SQL Server & the Technical Computing Platform. Print collateral for internal distribution.

::Art Director, Manageability Services Group::
Concept design & interaction specifications for an application framework supporting Microsoft’s cloud computing services. End-user research & persona development, wire frames, style guide & specifications authoring. UI/UX fit & finish per milestone.

::Product Designer 3/UX Designer::
Visual design and UX design for Visual Studio 2010:
Working in a small team of UX designers, responsibilities included visual explorations for, and finalizing, the application color schemes and interaction models, for VS 2010. F-spec authoring. Internal marketing of the new features and the look and feel of VS 2010 Shell.

::UX Designer/Product Designer::
Finance Solution Delivery group
UX & UI design for browser based Microsoft financial tools. Including redesigns & new functionality for existing financial portals and new portals. Prototyping interaction models for implementation in limiting and constraining technologies such as SharePoint, Sequel Server Reporting Services, InfoPath & others.

::UX Designer::
Windows Live and the Microsoft Global Business Intelligence group, including Windows Live Hotmail sign-up flow.

::Senior Designer::
Identity design for Visual Studio Extensibility. Logo design for Visual Studio Shell, application icon design for Visual Studio Shell. PowerPoint templates for Visual Studio Extensibility for internal and external presentations, UX design for Visual Studio SDK.

Horton Lantz & Low
February 2007
::Senior Designer::
Interactive & user experience design, rich media marketing for clients such as Vail Resort, Microsoft, Flip Start and others.


Eddie Bauer
::Senior Designer::
August 2006 - January 2007
Senior Designer, e-commerce group. Responsible for look and feel of the Eddie
Bauer web site for the holiday 2006 season for all top-level pages on eddiebauer.com. Collaborations: with senior art directors, marketing team & usability Rich media &?HTML?E-mail marketing, overseeing and mentoring junior designers.

Studio 36
::Principal/Art Director::
June - 2001 - May 2007
Art Director for boutique studio specializing in design & design strategy for emerging brands: packaging, publication & editorial, branding, advertising, and photography.

Mentoring/supervising junior designers & interns, overseeing contract copywriters, designers. Photo art direction, new business client pitches, client presentations, vendor and service bureau management - including blueline reviews and press checks.


Saltmine
::Art Director::
May 2006 - August 2006
Art direction & design for interactive & print. Clients include Microsoft, Intel, Docusign, Playnetwork & others. New business creative pitches. pre-press, press checks, mood & story boarding.

Gift Certificates.com, Seattle, WA
::Graphic Designer::
June 2005 - December 2005
Working with the Creative Director to design and produce web content, print materials, on and off line advertising campaigns. Working within established brand & identity guidelines and developing new subsets of these guidelines as required.

Starbucks, Seattle, WA
::Senior Interactive Designer::
May 2004 - November 2005
Web Based Training Team: establishing user interface guidelines of Starbucks online training and tools, e-learning courseware using the ADDIE model of Instructional Design, for intranet and/or DVD. Proprietary intranet based work assistants.

BBFM Seattle, WA
::Graphic Designer::
June 2003 - December 2004
Marketing & sales DVDs & CDs, E-marketing and user interfaces for event registration web sites for clients such as Microsoft, HP and others.


Amazon.com Seattle, WA
February 1997 - April 2001
::Quad Lead::
Supervision, mentoring and quality assurance for teams of up to 19 members - including full-time and seasonal staff - in Amazon’s customer service department. In addition to Lead responsibilities, duties also included extensive design and development for the Amazon customer service Intranet: web-based training using the ADDIE model of Instructional Design, browser based work assistants, Intelligence Agents prototyping including interface design and knowledge systems integration.


::Awards & Publications::
Finalist
Priz de la photographie
Paris France, 2011

Usability Life Cycle, Return on Investment.
White paper
Norman Nielsen Group

Honest Labors, Passionate Art
Portland, Oregonian
Art at its Finest
Portland, Oregonian

Semiotext(e)
The USA Issue
Columbia University
Department of Philosophy

Pozdravi iz Babilona: Ameriska Subkultura
Teoretska Scena
Uniververzitetna Knjiznica
Ljubljana, Slovenia

::Education::
Seattle University
Seattle, WA
Photography

University of Wisconsin
Madison, WI
Fine art / Painting

Madison Area Technical College
Madison, WI
Fine and applied art

::Professional Associations::
AIGA
Ad Club Seattle Read Less