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Columbus, Oh, Us

Dublin, Ohio, United States

Hybrid program manager and experience architect for the Enterprise XD team, covering research, design, accessibility, and UI development disciplines across three lines of business and internal projects. My contributions led to a delivery rate improvement from 78% to 96% in one fiscal year.Responsibilities include building weekly design sprints, project completion trackers, and supporting resourcing conversations by providing unique views into project data. As needed, will pop into projects to help get things back on track, coaching and mentoring team members as they traverse the OCLC universe of discovery, delivery, and metadata workflows.Functional admin for corporate use of Figma and Miro.

Dublin, Ohio

Resource manager for senior designers supporting strategic product initiatives across all lines of business at OCLC. Advocating for user experience research, data-driven decision-making, and inclusive, accessible, international audiences. Establishing design artifact best practices by creating and maintaining team Figma templates. Allocating resources across multiple lines of business, including recruiting, coaching, and mentoring mid-level and senior design talent. Improving OCLC's accessibility ops, including customer audit requests, creating and maintaining the corporate audit spreadsheet, and championing education on best practices. Crafting an accessibility awareness program which led to a new specialist role.

Dublin, Ohio, United States

Facilitating strategic conversations across product, tech, user research, and visual design to address needs of library users/staff for SaaS discovery and fulfillment systems. Managing two senior experience designers and acting team program manager during interim where team lacked management. Interacting with Director-level stakeholders. Leading user experience team for first ever OCLC app for library student workers, supporting and empowering student workers in the book stacks.

Dublin, Ohio, United States

Integrated with developers, business analysts, visual designers, and product owners to innovate interaction patterns. Lead content-first sessions for new functionality. Maintained consistency across product family suite. Constructed design artifacts and prototypes supporting developer teams, customer insight sessions, and user research initiatives.

Columbus, Ohio, United States

Embark Enterprises, LLC is a sole proprietorship that sells stationery, fiction, and photography services via three ventures: Bright Bird Press, author Belinda Kroll, and Siriomi Joy Photography. Focusing on writer stationery offerings from Bright Bird Press, and growing reader audience for Belinda Kroll's fiction. Vetted by hundreds of fellow discovery (pantser) writers, the Bright Bird Press collection of planners and journals support your goals as a busy writer. Whether writing is your full-time job, side hustle, or favorite hobby, these flexible journals help you break down big projects into manageable tasks. https://worderella.comhttps://brightbirdpress.comhttps://siriomijoyphotography.com

Columbus, Ohio Area

Managing small design team to meet project dates under budget. Sketching storyboards and concepts in retail contexts. Developing a standard artifact consolidating sitemap, wireframes, and creative designs for developer contractor handoff. Performing usability studies, creating highlight reels, and proposing solutions to improve customer experiences. Clients: Office Depot, Peter Piper Pizza, Vail Resorts, X-ACTO, The Home Depot, Chiquita, Nationwide Insurance, Zoe's Kitchen, Pottery Barn.

Columbus, Oh

Captured complex ideas through typography and visual metaphors to act as one-page takeaways from conference presentation talks. Created speed writing videos for instructional and marketing use. Co-authored a sketchnotes field guide book which empowers others to practice and hone their sketchnoting skill set. Taught conference attendees to think through their listening critically and translate their comprehension visually by co-leading a workshop at MidwestUX 2012, and via a solo presentation at Stir Trek 2012. Specializing in the visual depiction of design, programming, and technology talks at conferences, lectures, and brainstorming meetings.

Columbus, Ohio Area

Moderating usability sessions and translating findings into highlight reels, infographics, reports, and recommendation tables for steering committees. Creating infographics to clarify process for internal clients. Iterating templates for the usability team.

Bloomington, Indiana Area

Mentored and inspired graduate students in the interaction design practicum course, which is essentially an intense design boot camp. We discussed what it means to design right vs find the right design, and other fundamental methodologies which aid a user experience/interaction design/information architect accomplish a project.

Bloomington, Indiana Area

Championed interaction design user research methods, design ideation, and sketching with many different colored pens. Prototyped with hand-drawn sketches, white board sessions, wireframes, image mock-ups, and working HTML/CSS/Javascript.

Columbus, Ohio Area

Efficiently multi-tasked content maintenance and front-end development for ten clients using Ektron, Kentico, PHP, ASP, and .NET technologies. Converted and deployed PSD-to-HTML websites and emails. Assumed lead for front-end deployment of Hob Knob Boutique Hotel.

Columbus, Ohio Area

Created video animations for The Ohio State University sporting events such as baseball, basketball, and football. Ran the ribbon and video boards at volleyball, basketball, gymnastics, baseball, football, and concert events at the St John's Arena and Schottenstein center. Worked with AfterEffects and some Flash animation.

Columbus, Ohio Area

Transcribed gargantuan, inefficient, and confusing Python user interface into a compact, multi-tabbed, and intuitive Java user interface. The interface communicated with Perl query scripts, allowing access to grid database back end.