I am an artistic and articulate UX professional with over twenty years’ experience in interactive media specializing in web, graphic, product, and application design and development, with a tireless passion for clean, delightful and engaging user experiences. I thrive on bringing ideas from scribbled paper napkins to final launch, solving complex design problems every step of the way.

Virtru Corp

User Experience & Interaction Design 09/18 – Current
Currently leading end-to-end user experience initiatives for file encryption within cloud based storage platforms.

Atlas RFID

Senior Design Director 08/16 – 09/18
Led all aspects of design across multiple desktop and mobile apps (iOS & Android) from conceptual wireframes to asset delivery. Also developed a scalable WordPress driven design process supporting the company’s various web properties including static corporate, form-heavy conference, and client-specific protected sites.

Sundance Studios

Principal Design Director 01/10 – Current
Co-founded a small boutique design agency, focused on WordPress-driven single page websites for local start-ups.

Neustar, Inc.

UX Manager, NUX Toolkit 10/15 – 04/16
Responsible for driving the vision and strategy for the company’s reimagined styleguide, pattern library, and the Bootstrap-based front-end development framework.

AOL, Inc.

Design Director, AOL Search 07/14 – 09/15
In this role, I constructed a fully templatized design system for themed landing pages, leveraging an in-house CMS, Blogmith. I was also part of an Agile-driven SWAT team responsible for developing and designing Wow.com, AOL Search’s new content site.

Creative Technology Director, AOL Agency 07/13 – 07/14
Responsible for all prototyping (lo-fi, hi-fi, and functional) for AOL’s in-house design team. In this position, I advocated the importance and craft of visual design to the technical teams, while communicating technical thinking to our design team to help minimize inefficiencies in translating concepts to live products.

Design Director, AOL Desktop & Browser Apps 01/08 – 06/13
Responsible for modernizing the design strategy, from simplifying the user interface and creating entirely new icon sets, to streamlining the entire design process. I also created templates for consumer facing web products, redesigned the consumer app gallery, deployed toolbar and landing page theming capabilities, and created/maintained the asset server. Helped grow the product to over 35mm monthly unique users in the market, resulting in $65M annual revenue.

Design Director, AIM 01/06 – 12/07
Served as the technical representative from the web products design group. Led efforts to bring creative teams technically up to speed by mentoring designers on HTML, CSS, and Flash. Led design efforts on numerous web applications, most notably our streaming web based media player, AIM Tunes, and our geo-mapping buddy finder, Buddy Maps.

Design Director, AOL News & Weather 07/01 – 01/06
Went from mid-level designer to managing a 4-person creative team to help shape and direct a cohesive interactive design vision for the AOL News experience in collaboration with business and development leads. Actively integrated product goals with company goals and built commitment and ownership within my team. Key projects included AOL Elections 2004 Coverage, 2004 thru 2006 AOL News redesign cycles, AOL Documentaries launch, and creation of the blog-driven Daily Pulse feature packages, one of the first of its kind.

PC Data/NPD Inc/Media Metrix

Sr. Designer, Web Technologies 12/99 – 07/01
As the sole design resource on the web development team, I helped launch the second largest internet audience measurement service on the web, pcdataonline.com.

Arus Nawala

Designer, Web Technologies 06/95 – 07/99
Designed, developed and maintained 185 websites for Indonesian embassies and consulates globally.

Design Leadership

  • Organizes resources and tasks to efficiently accomplish goals.
  • Facilitates the design process in coordination with product and development counterparts.
  • Thrives on building design teams and cultures capable of exceeding expectations.
  • Believes in an open forum with all designers to keep up with design trends and technology advancements relative to our craft.

Creative

  • Strong sense of user empathy, powering broad design strategies. and experiences across all mediums.
  • Deep experience in executing and maintaining brand strategies.
  • Able to understand and integrate business goals, whether it be performance, monetization, conversion, or retention, into the overall design strategy.

Technical

  • Thorough understanding of systems and technologies as applied to interactive design and development.
  • Skilled in designing and developing responsive sites in HTML5/CSS3/Wordpress/Javascript.
  • High level of experience in designing within various frameworks such as WordPress, Blogsmith, and Bootstrap.

Tools & Technologies

Adobe CC, Sketch 3, HTML5, CSS3, Coda/Atom IDE, WordPress CMS, Bootstrap, Balsamiq, Invision, Marvel.
Some GIT, LESS, Javascript, and PHP. Experience with D3, Chart.js, and Highcharts API implemetation.

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