I am responsible for designing and maintaining design systems and UI/UX design for all internal and external apps, reaching more than 3 million people worldwide. I work closely with stakeholders and developers during the creative process (ideation, wireframes, mockups, designs) and iterate based upon real customer feedback. I also get to work with our marketing team to ensure designs are aligned with marketing goals and objectives, as well as be involved in planning and brainstorming processes for things related to the user interface or digital experiences for our customers.

Lead Designer providing UX/UI, web and print design services.• Led design projects for all customers including large ($11B) clients in the international agricultural industry.• Gathered requirements and coordinated with sales, marketing, R&D, and executive teams.• Created mockups and proofs-of-concept documents for executives and marketing directors.• Managed vendors supporting design projects.• Conducted user research, user interviews, and user testing with internal stakeholders and external clients.

• Managed Agile projects as the Account Executive. The team included designers, developers, and external contractors.• Interfaced with external clients regularly to provide project status updates, discuss new initiatives, align expectations, and proactively enhance the business relationship.

• Led customer meetings to gather requirements, conduct user research 
and user testing.• Regularly provided design consultation and strategy to the CEO, VP of Sales, business leaders and customers.• Created wireframes and prototypes from user research.• Built out designs in HTML, CSS, and Javascript inside Python applications.

- Code designer mockups in HTML5 and CSS3 according to instructions, and work closely with the designer to create a good user experience.- Create Javascript solutions via a JS Library or otherwise to implement necessary functionality.- Work with designers as well as back-end developers to ensure alignment, integration and timely time and efforts.- Develop rich, interactive experiences for mobile/desktop browsers.- Understand Django template tags, variables, attributes, and filters in order to make changes where needed, and alert a programmer when the necessary programming is missing in the models, views, or urls.- Adjust templates and CSS once roughed in by the programmer so that they reflect design mockups.- Craft custom HTML Emails.- Assist with wireframe mockups and web designs.

My responsibilities ranged from designing, developer, and maintaining our in-house SaaS products.I designed print, trade show, and marketing materials for our sales and executive team. This included business cards, powerpoint templates, slide decks, fliers, trade show displays, banners, emails, and videos.I utilized HTML, CSS, HTML5, CSS3, Javascript, and jQuery for the front-end technologies. I worked with programmers to hook up the front-end to the ASP.Net, C#, and MSSql back-end.I had the privilege of leading a team of two designers. Our tasks were to update the design and improve the overall user experience of our outward-facing website (for both individuals and attorneys), brainstorm new designs and interactions for new SaaS products, and to develop new strategies and recommendations to the C-Level staff.

Re-designed medical website and integrated the design in the front-end and back-end using CodeIgniter, PHP, jQuery, HTML(4+5) and CSS(2+3)

I had an opportunity to work with a team whose sole purpose was to brainstorm daily and to create unique and innovative tools to better the students and faculty of Rochester Institute of Technology.My responsibilities ranged from creating logos and graphics for print and web to designing and building landing pages for products.A few projects were:- Creating icons and microsite for a browser-extension that would convert a web-page to an e-pub document (funded by a grant from HP Labs).- Designing and developing the new Open Publishing Labs website.- Building graphics for internal projects and software.Technologies utilized:- Adobe Photoshop- Adobe InDesign- HTML & CSS- Wordpress- Drupal- jQuery

Designing and implementing an intranet website for a local bank in Roanoke Virginia.