Work
Flexera (2020 - Present)
User Experience Design Manager
Partnered with product and engineering stakeholders to align UX capacity with business priorities ensuring the most important work was resourced and the work was resourced appropriately, from product research to implementation support.
Senior User Experience Designer
Lead product design and research efforts for multiple products, working with product, engineering, and other internal stakeholders to align business goals with what will move the needle for customers.
Microsoft (2019 - 2020)
Product Designer
Worked with the Developer Relations team to improve the Documentation and Learn experiences on docs.microsoft.com.
Led conversations with stakeholders and conducted research with users to improve the Docs content switching experience based on content requirements, user feedback, and usage data. Wrote design strategy documents and iterated on designs for new user feedback mechanisms for Docs and Learn content.
Publicis Sapient (2015 - 2019)
Senior User Experience Designer
Delivered design systems, interactive prototypes, user research, and facilitated design thinking workshops. Brought design value to clients in the automotive, finance, banking, healthcare, software, telecommunications, and insurance industries.
As product designer on the Marcel.ai team I worked with our partner, Microsoft, and product development teams to design a voice-based UI for an AI-enabled product. Responsible for writing our feature stories, built a component library, and negotiated with stakeholders on product backlog priority.
Teradata (2014)
User Experience Intern
I worked with local UX team and project management in Munich, Germany to redesign a feature within the suite of Teradata’s enterprise marketing software.
Gathered requirements, researched competitor applications, and produced wireframes and high-fidelity mock-ups with detailed interaction documentation. This work contributed to a new design language (interaction and visual) planned for all future Teradata applications.
IT Communications Office at Indiana University (2012 - 2013)
Graphic Designer
Collaborated in establishing new brand guidelines for all information technology at Indiana University. Redesigned student, faculty, and public facing websites covering educational tools and IT news.
Researched, implemented, and managed content on a replacement interactive digital signage system used on both IU Bloomington and IUPUI campuses.
Planned and designed digital and physical materials for the 2012 and 2013 Statewide IT conference with approximately 1000 attendees.
Education
Master of Science, Human-Computer Interaction Design
Indiana University, Bloomington 2015
Bachelor of Science, Informatics (Human-Centered Computing)
Indiana University, Bloomington 2013
Design stuff*
Skills
Design
Wireframes, Visual Comps
Prototyping
Storywriting
Research
Interviews
Card Sorting
Sketching, Design Studio
Synthesis
User Journeys
Service Blueprints
Tools
Currently
Sketch, Figma, UXPin
Zeplin, Abstract
JIRA
Experience with
Invision (DSM, Inspect, Freehand, etc)
Principle
All the Adobe things
VSTS/Azure Dev Ops
* Currently enthusiastic about working with multi-disciplinary teams that value the Agile Manifesto. Tools and methods come second to creating a functional team that creates working software collaboratively and displays a willingness to respond to change.