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San Francisco, Ca, Us

Reducing agony for frequent business and leisure travelers.

I help companies define and shape new digital products for mobile and web. Clients include cyber security, digital asset management, and consumer products.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Joined Vango to help define, design and bring the product to market.As the product designer, I was responsible for shaping the experience for both the artists and buyers in the marketplace. This included user interviews, sketching, user flows, wireframing, prototyping, usability testing, iterations, mockups, asset generation, behavior-driven stories and specs, front-end development and quality assurance testing for the website, iPad and iPhone apps.

Athens, Ohio, Us

I taught within the Interactive Design sequence of the School of Visual Communication. Courses included Introduction to Web Design, Interactive I, Interactive II, Interactive Capstone and several Topic Seminars in HTML5 & CSS3, Mobile-First Responsive Web Design and Digital Portfolio. In addition to teaching, I was pivotal in the development of new curriculum to update the discipline with modern web standards and increased the course offerings for the sequence.Outside the classroom I was also active in creating opportunities for students to continue their education as well as their personal and professional development. I collaborated with faculty to help lead two multidisciplinary study abroad trips that taught students "Documentary Storytelling" in Germany and "Design in Asia" in China, Hong Kong and Japan. To help connect the students to the professional world, I brought web industry professionals into the class with video chats and was involved in helping the Ohio University Multimedia Society student group travel to Chicago, D.C. and New York as they made on-site visits with media companies.2012 Interactive Capstone Projects Include: • Project C: http://www.clickingcreateschange.com/ • Soul of Athens: http://2012.soulofathens.com/

Athens, Ohio, Us

As part of the publisher's marketing team, I was responsible for the design and maintenance of their web presence and helped research the digital publishing strategy for digital distribution.Design, marketing and strategy contributions included conceptualizing and creating graphics for the website, special events, promotions, sales, newsletters, campaigns for new books and series, microsites and online advertising. Development contributions included creating and developing new sections of the website and microsites, daily updates and maintenance and synchronizing catalogue and database information between the publisher, printers, shipping warehouse and amazon.com.

Athens, Ohio, Us

Involved in research and development with immersive media, virtual environments, 3D visualization, mobile and web based applications for education.Major Project: Immersive Video Intelligence Network (IVIN)IVIN was developed as a federally-funded partnership with Columbus Urban Areas Security Initiative, the Franklin County Office of Homeland Security and the Game Research and Immersive Design (GRID) Lab of Ohio University. The goal of the collaboration was to create a photorealistic interactive environment to represent actual interiors of local buildings to aid emergency personnel in dangerous situations. My roles included researching and developing the workflow and process of capturing the environment via photography, extracting 3D models from the images and creating the interior models in prep for the game engine.

Athens, Ohio, Us

Involved in the strategy, rebranding, design and development of the school's new website as the school was transitioning to a new name and identity (from School of Telecommunications to the School of Media Arts and Studies).Strategy and design goals were to update the school's digital presence to promote their new focus on digital arts and technology in higher education without sacrificing the longstanding relationship with alumni and industry researchers in media and broadcasting. For current students, we aimed to increase engagement with better news and events tailored for the different majors and student organizations and provide better access to faculty information. For perspective students, we built more comprehensive content to describe each of the majors, student involvement, scholarships and funding, alumni news and better information about faculty research. Development goals were to build the new website based on emerging web standards with a hybrid of XHTML, CSS, XML and Flash that utilized multimedia content and provided flexible updating for the content.

New York, Ny, Us

As an instructor at Ohio University I wanted to make sure my curriculum and leadership in the classroom was keeping up with the industry. During the summer break in between school years, I sought out a professional internship with the User Experience Design team at Code and Theory's NYC office.During this experience I contributed as a full member of the UX team and worked on several web and mobile client projects. Roles included project definition and strategy, user research and stakeholder interviews, content analysis and strategy, personas, user experience strategy, wireframing, client pitches and presentations.

Dayton, Ohio, Us

Responsible for filming, capturing, editing and exporting video and audio content for the engagement website featuring the VTech V.Flash Home Edutainment System. The experience included working with talent on a set and in a recording studio for live action film and audio, as well as capturing game play action directly from the V.Flash console.

Ma, Media Management

Bsc, Digital Media: Special Effects, Games, And Animation

Bsc, Visual Communication: Interactive Multimedia