• Worked with two agile teams as the Lead UX Designer on three CUNA Mutual websites• Redesigned CUNA Mutual "Retirement For You" Landing Page• Created the landing page builder for CUNA Mutual's third party companies who sold CUNA Mutual "Retirement For You" products to their clients. This landing page builder would allow these companies to create a landing page with their branding in place of CUNA Mutual branding when these third-party company clients visited the CUNA Mutual "Retirement For You" website.• Made daily AXURE prototype updates/revisions to three CUNA Mutual websites.• Conducted weekly user testing through Usertesting.com

Designed web content, digital assets, brochures, and websites.• Designed/Coded SLR Packaging website and produced print collateral• Designed and built digital publication for Kraft Foods and the American Library Association• Designed logos for Level Set Media, 369 IT Consulting, Ingress Business Intelligence Solutions• Designed and built websites for Alter Imaging, Forward Focus Media, Traversos Italian Restaurant, Legacy Blueprint, Mechanical Contractor, Inc., Energy Kinetics, and Impact Financial Systems through WordPress

Freelance magazine page layout for two national fashion magazines: Sophisticate's Hairstyle Guide Magazine and Sophisticate's Black Hair Magazine. I am called in frequently to help under their tight schedule to assist with page layout and production.

This is a three month contract. I designed the functionality and user experience for the web portal which manages the LiveGuide digital signage platform. Role responsibilities: product analysis, user observations, personas creation, use case development, requirement writing, wire-frame ideation, and rapid prototyping.

Consultant for the UX design of the Texas Department of Transportation statewide intranet portal.

Responsible for UX Design of the Whirlpool Corporation Global Supplier Portal. • Redesigned the Whirlpool global supplier portal• Conducted user testing through Usertesting.com• Produced wireframes in Sketch• Produced prototypes with Sketch and InVision

Responsible for design and layout of educational textbook publications.

Establish visual design standards and best practices for agile teams• Lead design meetings with stakeholders, third-party vendors, and business owners• Created visual mobile UI designs and visual design library and documentation• Worked closely with teams of designers and developers to support multiple lines of business

Managed, art-directed and designed digital assets, including Web pages and user interactive browser screens. Created concept and determined visual strategies aligned with audience goals, business objectives and brand identity. Provided guidance and feedback to contributing designers and multi-disciplinary team members. • Oversaw and executed design of web page and UI browser screens for the Discovery Channel account.

Oversaw design and art direction of major marketing and promotional campaigns, featuring targeted e-mails, Web banners, Facebook headers, and other social media visuals. Created and finalized layout of company catalogs, posters and associated collateral.• Produced digital assets for the Sourcebooks e-commerce website.• Managed design, direction and production of high-profile projects, including licensed children’s picture book series for Disney, Marvel, Hello Kitty, Sesame Street and Peanuts. • Designed and produced Disney “Put Me in the Story” book series.

Oversaw, directed, and produced publications for multiple globally recognized consumer brands. Administered and serviced high-stakes client accounts within cookbook portfolio. Designed and produced e-publications and apps.• Key clients included Kraft Foods, Campbell’s Soup Company, Land O’Lakes, Hershey’s, Extended Stay America, Wilton Enterprises and Johnsonville. • Directed 100+ recipe photo shoots, serving as prop stylist for all Publication International, Ltd. food shoots from 2011-2013.• Preemptively addressed and mitigated concerns with influential clients, maintaining continuous communication and assuming strategic role in account growth, development and retention.

Responsibilities:Design and layout, photo shoot direction, artwork commissioning, and magazine budget management.

• Responsible for the design and production of the monthly lifestyle magazine• Managed designers, editors, photographers• Directed photo shoots• Managed design budget• Managed multiple vendors

Responsibilities:Design, layout, and illustration for "Inside Sports Magazine" and "Home Gym & Fitness Magazine".Art Director for "Bowling Digest".

Responsibilities:Generated internal graphics and cover designs for client proposals.

Responsibilities:Generated all marketing material for Joliet Junior College's Institute of Economic Technology.