Lead Product Designer on Marketing Web Team

As a Contract Product Designer, lead research interviews with users to create enhancements and experiences for mobile and other digital

devices, responsible for creating journey flows, components, wireframes, high fidelity mock-ups, and user interfaces that optimize user interaction and

experience. Lead efforts on testing activities and incorporate findings to develop visual/interactive solutions. Provide day-to-day support to product

teams. Demonstrate the company’s core values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion, and safety.

As a Full-Time Lead UX Designer, responsible for leading user experience design processes to develop interfaces that optimize user interaction and experience. Support the teams testing activities and incorporate behavioral and data findings to develop better user experiences. Conduct, and lead day-to-day UX sprints and other ceremonies and support collaboration with other cross functional teams.

• Collaborate on scenarios, end-to-end experiences, prototypes and other artifacts to align on problems and solutions • Define visual elements, product elements and overall design • Create and implement interaction models and user interface specifications • Evaluate and set best practices and standards • Share artifacts with team members and stakeholders, and incorporate feedback as appropriate • Stay up to date with competitor products, their features, and industry trends in order to incorporate them into the design process • Perform UX audits and tests to iterate over existing designs and optimize the customer/user experience on a recurring basis • Relentlessly simplify and distill complex processes into intuitive and elegant UI. Establish and maintain detailed user-interface patterns and specifications • Work closely with developers to see designs reflected in deployment/development • Communicate complex, interactive design concepts clearly and persuasively across different audiences and varying levels of the organization business goals

Full-time Product Designer responsible for creating and designing user interfaces. developing strategies for optimizing user interaction and experience. Support user testing and incorporate findings to develop visual/interactive solutions. Provide day-to-day support of product teams.

Define visual elements, product elements and overall design

Create and implement interaction models and user interface specifications

Evaluate and set best practices and standards

Apply standards from design systems and/or brand guidelines, and contribute to design systems

Share artifacts with team members and stakeholders, and incorporate feedback as appropriate

Monitor user engagement and identify opportunities for improvement and innovation

Collaborate on scenarios, end-to-end experiences, prototypes and other artifacts to help teams align on problems and solutions

Champion company standards and best practices and ensure that assignments are delivered with the highest of quality and in accordance to standards

Embrace Agile environment and act as an advocate for customers, providing strategic leadership based in user-centered design, user research, customer analytics, and business goals

I have a passion for problem solving and executing engaging design strategies for digital. In my 12 plus years as a digital designer I have continued to expand my talents first starting in traditional web design and then exploring UX/UI and product design. I enjoy collaborating with agile, responsive teams to help bring new brands products, services, organizations and ventures to life in the digital space. As the principle and product design lead for Brand-on-Design.com, I utilize industry tools like Figma, Sketch, Azure, Sketch, XD and Adobe Creative Cloud to design and develop delightful user experiences and interfaces for clients.

As a UI/UX Design Contractor, provide digital visual communication design practices for user experience in mobile and desktop digital interfaces including web pages, interactive screens, video content, animations, banners and graphic communication structures utilizing branded elements and

hierarchy. Worked collaboratively with Marketing, Developer and SEO stakeholders to achieve continued responsive digital presence. Manage digital style guides, iconography library digital imagery and other graphic assets.

Digital graphic & multimedia design executions for Episcopal Retirement Services. Additionally, provide integrated marketing strategies for ERS products, programs, partners and affiliates.

As a Digital Design and Muti-media Instructor, I provide understanding and techniques in computer aided design and production.

As a Freelance Designer for Spicefire I provide consultation and design solutions and ideation for Consumer Package Goods.

As a freelance designer for CAT Creatives i provide digital design, maintain project deadlines, hours, explore concepts and provide production for web and print based media.

Digital Artist and Instructor for Artworks. Instructed and provided digital design expertise on Metro Bus Shelter Project.

As a freelance designer for Reversed Out I provide design, maintain deadlines, hours, explore concepts and provide production for web and print based media.

As a contract designer for The Urban League of Greater Cincinnati, I provide creative consulting, project management, creative direction and production for various print and digital products.

As a Contract Development Consultant I provided consultation, project management and design for mobile application development.

Provided Consultation, Creative Direction and Original Design for HCLRC brand identity.

Freelance Designer

Advanced from freelance contract employee to permanent, full-time web designer on

Conagra Foods Team, providing web design concepts, layout, flash animations, web 2.0 banners, sitemaps, style guides, branded mini-sites and contests to company's major corporate clients.

Managed production time-lines and billable hours in creating design solutions. Collaborated with managers and prepared internal and client review presentation material. Web design layouts and production were selected for numerous name brands including:

www.fixodent.com,www.cheer.com,www.quickerpickerupper.com/garage/,

www.metamucil.com, www.healthexpressions.com, www.folgers.com, www.startmakingchoices.com, www.conagrafoods.com,

and www.purflavoroptions.com.

In addition worked on print design and ad campaigns including:

The Realize (lap-band) and The Cincinnati Shakespeare Company.

As a full-time graphic designer, communicated design concepts, coordinated design development,

maintained design schedules, provided and archived design solutions for a myriad of print and

web based projects including: DAP Body Spray, Fathead, Moxoderm, Fischer Homes, Towne

Properties Construction, Messer Construction, Madison’s Gelato. Successfully demonstrated

capabilities in the following areas: concepts for brand vision, product logos, package design,

collateral material, product ads, illustrations & multimedia presentations. Provided press checks

and proofing for quality control. Led project team in development of new product launch. Created

original illustrations & artwork. Directed project team members in use of visual elements to create

a Flash-based multimedia project. Directed and conceptualized imagery to support tag lines &

product statements.

Freelance contract designer for 2 years. Hired as a web designer and print designer.

Have contracted with Bridge Worldwide, Barefoot, Intrenzic, and

Gameday Communications