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Roseland, New Jersey, Us

Focused on research-driven software design for Retirement Services; Sponsor, Participant, Financial Advisor, and internal facing.

A personal project with partner Bob Ostrom, Creative Independence is a social media experience that includes a blog, podcast, and a number of social media touch points. Currently on extended hiatus, Creative Independence provided its audience with looks into a variety of ways that artists and other creatives were making a living in today’s markets.- Recorded, edited, sound engineered, and published dozens of episodes of the audio podcast.- Worked to grow the audience and connected via social media with hundreds of audience members, building rapport and relationships.- Reached out and secured interviews with dozens of professionals and experts, including Michael Gerber (E-Myth); J.C. Hutchins (author); Carlos Castellanos (cartoonist for Baldo); and many more.

Newark, New Jersey, Us

(Contract Position)Creating accessible wireframes, designs, and prototypes for Prudential Retirement’s Sponsor Portal. - Accessibility research and design for common and custom interaction patterns. - Creation of screens branded with Prudential’s own design system, PruStrap, but translated into workable solutions within Salesforce’s Lightning Design System. - Responsive, interactive designs using Axure RP 9. - SAFe Agile process teams.

Thomaston, Connecticut, Us

Reimagined as a strict WordPress shop. Set up, host, migrate and design websites and landing pages for small to medium-sized businesses who fit comfortably in this space, helping them to understand online marketing and providing technical support to site owners who maintain their own content.- Provide bullet-proof WordPress website hosting and maintenance.- Restore confidence to business owners who’ve had poor experiences with web companies in the past.- Consult on a number of growth-hacking strategies for client’s internet marketing efforts.

Rocky Hill, Ct, Us

(Contract Position)Worked on three separate projects for the United Way.State of Connecticut's online Caretakes Portal (6 months):Crafted intuitive visuals and interactions for new features for the caretaker portal, then assisted the development team by implementing visual designs into application code via HTML and CSS. Working in a GitHub environment. - Streamlined site flow, information architecture, and improved overall digital experience. - Implemented visual design using HTML & CSS/SCSS in Zurb’s Foundation framework. - Set design patterns and system foundations to allow structured management of outside creative work. - New designs greatly decreased the volume of "help calls" to the call center.Section 8 Housing site redesign (1.5 months):Updated the older, non-responsive site (still up here: http://cthcvp.org/ )by running through a full UX workup, including: - Surveys and interview of current users. - Card sorting and subsequent restructuring of the site's information architecture. - UI and interaction design. - Wireframes, mockups and final visual designs. - Coding of pages and visual designs into the base template structure.211 Childcare Search (.5 months):Made UI recommendations for adjustments to a new, generally mobile-friendly website that enables users to find and research local, state licensed child-care providers. - Research on various mobile patterns for features that simply were not working well. - Responsive wireframes. - Final visual designs. - Highly interactive prototypes using Origami app.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

Netsolace is the technology arm of Edible Agreements. Applying UX Design principles to Edible Arrangements website updates and internal franchise management software, of which there is a lot. Most of their software and apps are home grown.

Shelton, Ct, Us

(Contract Position)Usable and accessible visual designs for one large client. Deliverables include user flow charts, wireframes, interaction designs and interactive prototypes along with responsive visual design specs for both web and mobile apps. Heavy focus on Google Material design.- Designs I created for Skillsoft’s mobile app were also retrofitted into the web product to improve overall user experience.

Bristol, Ct, Us

Responsible for the visual design of much of ESPN’s Internal and B2B websites and digital media for a decade. Worked, often as the sole designer, with 20+ developers in the Web Team on a variety of projects ranging from multimedia presentations to app and web design to digital communications. As the design team grew, remained responsible for the bulk of Kanban projects, handling dozens of small projects monthly, in addition to work on larger agile projects. - Awarded ESPN’s Standing ‘O’ for outstanding project completion under difficult circumstances.- Created a cohesive design and user experience as Lead Designer on ESPN’s original intranet (2008)- Awarded ESPN’s Gameball for efforts in maintaining ESPN’s brand guidelines, resolving many situations before they became issues and saving thousands of dollars.- Preserved visual acuity in ESPN’s production environments by introducing dark room design.- Greatly reduced design time and increased brand unity by forging relationships between IT and Branding.- Dramatically reduced development time on B2B and internal sites with design templates; Morello CMS, SketchApp, WordPress and others.- Created visuals quantifying and qualifying years of work pertaining to User Experience ROI, persuading our executive team to further grow and invest in UX across ESPN Technology.- When demonstrating the width, breadth and depth of the UX team's work to our new CTO, three of five chosen showcase projects were mine.- PSE teams saved hundreds of man hours by applying my theme across a number of their apps.- Reduced time on task in many apps by designing a user picking widget that included employee headshot for rapid identification and confirmation.

Burbank, Ca, Us

PLEASE NOTE: This is the same position as ESPN (above), but should allow my Disney colleagues to connect with me easier.

Thomaston, Connecticut, Us

Founded after the 2000 tech bubble burst, Aithene Multimedia originated mainly as a vehicle to facilitate freelance work, providing full service media and design for everything from initial branding to website, and print marketing materials. It was shuttered a couple of years after starting full time at ESPN.- Cultivated relationships with clients all over Hartford county.- Worked with a number of startups at their point of conception.

Part of the digital design team, primary responsibilities included designing Microcast’s streaming video player, creating our client’s ‘microsite’ advertising used by the player, and supporting website marketing and development efforts.- Surprised sales team w/ a number of mock microsites for use in sales calls.- Set the design template for our video player.

Continuation of the animator’s duties, but now with oversight of a number of our company’s newest animators for pitches, games and animated movies.- Mentored new animators, teaching our process, philosophy and software.- Reduced in-house rework by creating character model sheets for JumpStart properties.

Responsible for animating characters and designing interfaces and backgrounds for children’s educational games for a variety of clients such as Blaster, JumpStart, Barbie and Fisher Price.- Improved animation lip-synch process with x-sheets, creating a better product.- Reduced rework by introducing storyboards and animatics for game scene previsualization.

Animation, Animation, Illustration, Graphic Design

High School Diploma, College/University Preparatory And Advanced High School/Secondary Diploma Program