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Kansas City, Mo, Us

Bellingham, Washington, Us

Leading UX research, strategy & design across the company's web & mobile apps to create engaging & useful experiences for their real estate agents & operations staff.

San Francisco, California, Us

- Led a team of 5 designers over their mobile app & web app focused on growth, activation, expansion & sharing.- As an area lead I partnered with a cross-functional leadership to provide guidance, strategy, priority & process improvements across the squads under our care- Drove priority & contributed to strategy that helped beat the ‘23 Q1 goal of new user sign ups in the mobile app by over 300k- Helped one of our squads beat their revenue goal in 2022 (a 50% YoY increase)- Contributed to a Discovery Process Playbook that provided resources for teams that needed inspiration or unblocking

Midvale, Utah, Us

- Led a team of 6 great designers on mobile apps & gift registries.- Led the team through a top of funnel redesign for wedding & baby registry in their mobile apps that saw an increase in registry creations, helping the company recover from losing ground to competitors in the registry space.- Led the team through designing a new set of features to allow wedding & baby registrants to use the mobile app(s) to add to/manage their registries while shopping in Bed Bath & Beyond and buybuyBaby stores.

Kansas City, Mo, Us

I managed a UX design team of 8 designers that created their digital tax experiences (web, mobile & software), whether you preferred to do taxes yourself or work with a tax expert.Besides helping the designers on my team do their best work & grow in their skill sets, I also partnered with Research, Product & Engineering leadership on strategy & planning.In addition I drove major process change for the UX team to better align with the organization’s implementation of Agile methodology, become more efficient & protect designer's time to design.- Crafted the concept & led the team through designing a DIY tax prep experience that saw some users complete their taxes in less than 10 minutes from their phone- I won the 2017 Behavior best award for Innovation.- We won 2019 PC Mag Editors’ Choice- Contributed to significant increases in mobile users & revenue- Helped bring mobile app ratings from mid 2s to 4.8

Olathe, Ks, Us

Olathe, Ks, Us

After a handful of years, I moved to a newly formed UX team in the Engineering department that was tasked with designing, testing & prototyping improvements and overhauls for their device interaction application, Garmin Express (http://garmin.com/express). I also worked closely with the Garmin Connect UX teams as there was crossover with the web and mobile applications.I also kept my web UX design & front-end web development skills sharp by supporting Garmin's Developer Community site (http://developer.garmin.com) & smart device App Store (http://apps.garmin.com).

Olathe, Ks, Us

Olathe, Ks, Us

Starting in the Marketing/Communications Department, my job was to lead the design, development & deployment of websites for Garmin's locations around the world. I was a major proponent for researching our users as well as testing & tracking our applications to make sure we could make data driven design decisions. I was also the champion for mobile and tablet device support, working with other designers and developers to make garmin.com responsive and mobile friendly.

Contract/consultant/freelance work doing user research, UX design, UI design, front-end development, graphic design, branding, interactive marketing & search engine optimization (SEO).

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Web design & development, email marketing, CMS integration, search engine optimization & branding. I only left because an amazing opportunity at Garmin came up.

I managed their website, did email marketing, web design & development, graphic design and other miscellaneous marketing responsibilities.

I was the one person (save for a few contractors & interns I managed) creative department. While I handled all of the creative needs of a small business, my largest efforts were designing & developing their websites & web apps.