Running a digital strategy and product design consultancy helping clients to craft unique products and services, tackling new business innovation through hands-on design process. My role is to help shape projects, guide our design teams and clients through that process, helping to break down and solve some really complex problems in the digital space. Additionally my responsibility is to elevate areas of our project delivery and design skills through new tools, internal projects, and reimagining our process. Finally, I attend to our career management program for designers and assist with strategic direction for the business overall.

Co-leading the Chicago office. Responsible for new business development generation, scoping new engagements, delivering projects in digital innovation strategy and product design as well as hiring and mentoring designers.

• Consulted to clients such as Bloomberg and a variety of startups to help them shape engagements and offerings within Digital Product Design.• Mentored a mix of fellow colleagues and client internal teams through the design process. Often facilitated workshops, led discussions, and introduced new ways to implement design thinking within client organizations.• Collaborated with these clients through the process of building digital product suites from conception to commercialization. Many of these projects spanned different UI platforms across multiple releases.• Designed innovative and pragmatic UI experiences within project teams comprised of fellow colleagues and client stakeholders.• Increased involvement in Moment's internal functions including business development, recruiting and hiring designers, and contributing to learning activities for the company.

• Became the point of contact for clients during digital engagements. Handled communication and recommendations for next steps in the design process.• Continued to improve skills around user experience design, developing into a keen systems thinker for more complicated digital products.• Took more of a lead in facilitating formal testing sessions with users, gathering findings, and recommending solutions to clients.• Along with teammates at Moment and ESPN, designed a Webby Award nominated suite of apps for College Football, which debuted in the 2012 season. The project spanned iPhone, Android, and tablet devices.• Formed strong relationships with clients from ESPN & Bloomberg over a series of complex projects ranging from visionary concepts down to designing across a range of platforms for the appropriate mobile context.

• Collaborated with clients & Moment teammates to produce digital products spanning the desktop to mobile devices across a variety platforms.• Conducted ethnographic research, developed a suite of personas, built wireframes, and low-fidelity prototypes for user testing• Worked with clients from small startups to more established firms such as ESPN to produce highly engaging user experiences for their digital suite.

• Consulted with two startup initiatives on User Experience Strategy and Information ArchitectureJeremy Beck• Constructing a promotional website for a professional composer. Conducted strategy and scope meetings, competitive analysis, prioritized functional requirements; developed IA, wireframes, and design mockupsInformationArchetype.com• Designed, coded, and wrote articles for my own blog intended for beginning user experience professionals

Pfizer Inc.• Designed wireframes for brand promotions on a section of Pfizer’s Professionals site• Guided a multi-disciplinary team through user experience strategy and navigational paths for the Oncology Professionals site, including producing wireframe options for client reviewAciphex• Assisted a multi-disciplinary team in creating a better user experience design and navigation for a redesign project• Produced site maps and wireframes for a concept presentation to the clientBanzel• Assessed navigation options for the redesign project and produced wireframes for the client presentation