My Work Experience

Summary

Business-minded Designer, Product person, and CX Evangelist

10 years experience doing the following across a mix of design/product-related roles:

  • New Product Discovery / Lifecycle Management
  • Product/Service Design (both new and mature products)
  • New Product Visioning & Roadmap Development
  • New Opportunity Sizing / Prioritization
  • Customer Experience Strategy
  • Customer Journey Management

Industry expertise in:

  • Management Consulting
  • Healthcare
  • Financial Services / FinTech
  • eCommerce
  • B2B SaaS

In the process of completing an Executive MBA program (@Quantic School of Business and Technology), expected completion date April 2025. Let's bridge the gaps between design and business in the workplace, and help make the world a better place!

Work Experience

Atlanta, GA (October 2017 — June 2024)
Staff CX Delivery Designer (January 2020 - Current)

Helping to define market-leading human and AI-powered services at Intuit Mailchimp.

Manager, Service & Experience Design - Sparks Grove (January 2020 - May 2021)

I recently joined the Service & Experience Design team at Sparks Grove, where I help mentor junior designers, and do more Service/Experience Design work for clients.

Service & Interaction Designer - Fjord (October 2017 - January 2020)

I was part of the Service and Interaction Design team at Fjord, where I did design and innovation work for our clients. This role wass equal parts leading research and discovery sessions, as well as communicating aspirational, visionary design concepts through wireframes, prototypes, and POCs. In addition, I also spent a good bit of time tinkering around in our Makeshop, and helping Fjord better engage with the external community at large.

Miami, FL (June 2015 — October 2017)
Experience Designer - SapientRazorfish (June 2015 - Current)

I joined the Miami office shortly after graduation, and came on to build up the office’s prototyping practice, in an effort to be more nimble and iterative and incorporate a more user-centered design process for the clients we serve. One of the first projects I worked on was helping build the winning pitch for an omni-channel booking redesign for Universal Orlando. I’d later help build postrelease updates for the Miami Heat app, and have lately been helping make Carnival Cruise Lines’ booking experience more intuitive and easy to use.

Clemson, SC (August 2013 — May 2015)
Graduate Teacher of Record - Clemson University (July 2014 - May 2015)

I taught two sections of English 1030: Accelerated Composition my last year of Grad School. The course focuses on giving students critical thinking and writing skills that they then applied towards creating a variety of print and digital projects throughout the semester. As a GTR, I was responsible for creating lesson plans and projects focusing on rhetorical analysis, collaborative writing, composing in the real world and multimedia authoring.

UX Consultant - Clemson University (August 2014 - May 2015)

I was fortunate enough to work on a variety of cool projects while at Clemson in a consultative capacity for several clients and startups around town. Among them, helping launch the brand for a sportfishing news aggregate site based out of Gainesville, FL, and leading the redesign of a number of facilities pages on campus migrating over to Drupal.

Web Assistant - Clemson University (August 2013 - May 2014)

During my first year at Clemson, I had a graduate assistantship in the MATRF, a digital media lab on campus. I helped maintain the lab during open hours, assisted faculty and students with technical problems, and led a series of workshops on the Adobe Creative Suite series, including Dreamweaver and Illlustrator CC. We also worked in an agency setting for Departments within the College, maintained Department websites using Cascade CMS, and created a variety of rich media - like testimonial videos, photos, and graphics - for clients around town.

Skills

  • Ideation
  • User Research
  • Information Architecture
  • Interaction Design
  • Task Analysis
  • Think-Aloud Protocol
  • Competitive Analysis
  • Cognitive Walkthrough
  • Expert Review
  • Sketching
  • Prototyping
  • Responsive Design
  • Physical Computing
  • Front-End Design

Tools

  • Pen and Paper
  • Sketch
  • Adobe Illustrator
  • Adobe Photoshop
  • Adobe InDesign
  • Adobe Premiere
  • Axure RP, Omnigraffle
  • InVision
  • Principle
  • HTML5
  • CSS3
  • Foundation, Bootstrap
  • Amazon Alexa Skills Kit
  • Raspberry Pi, Arduino
  • Morae

education

Clemson University (2013 - 2015)
  • Master of Arts, Technical Communication ⁃ Specialization in Human-Computer Interaction
Florida International University (2009 - 2012)
  • Bachelor of Arts, English Language and Literature
  • Certificate in Public and Professional Writing ⁃ Specialization in Digital and Interactive Media
Relevant Coursework
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Design of Human-Computer Systems
  • Digital and Interactive Media
  • Visual Design
  • Research Methods
  • Usability Testing Methodologies
  • Art & 2D Design
  • Computer Data Analysis

Conference Presentations & Honors

2017 Webby Award (Best Sports App)
“Pop Up Shot" (NBCUniversal Hackathon 2016)
  • Presented in front of NBC executives and won best in category and best overall for our brand campaign concept, “Pop Up Shot.”
“Let’s Compare Notes: Sharing Experiences in User Experience” (IA Summit 2016)
“Prototyping Essentials: Building Things Realer, Faster” (IXDA Miami)
“Rapid Prototyping for Entrepeneurs” (Ironhack Miami)
“The Quality of the Connections: Designing for a Smart World” (Master’s Thesis & Defense)
  • Presented and passed my Master’s defense in April 2015
“Circumstances: The Game of Rhetorical Situations” (NCTE 2013)
  • Presented at the 2013 NCTE in Boston, MA and was awarded a travel grant

Associations

  • Society for Technical Communication (STC) ⁃ Treasurer & Head of Public Relations
  • User Experience Professionals Association (UXPA) ⁃ Member
  • Interaction Design Association (IXDA) ⁃ Member of the Organizing Comittee for the Miami Chapter
  • UTEST ⁃ Listserv Participant
  • Information Architecture Institute (IAI) ⁃ Involved in Mentoring Program
  • National Conference for Teachers of English (NCTE) ⁃ Member