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Minneapolis, Minnesota, Us

Advisor to businesses looking to build the future of retail, healthcare, AI, and web3 with tasks including project scoping/design, product and service UX design, business to design architectural strategies, and distributed team management.• Product Owner – Guided the launch of an enterprise APIs Data-as-a-Service platform featuring blockchain solutions• Senior Product Designer – Led strategic design of a modular portal for in-store communication systems• Head of UX Design - A customer-centric web3 take on the relationship with retailers, managing the C2B product lifecycle with blockchain• Framework Architect - Building and documenting my ABLE design system following atomic design principles using Figma & developed using React

Lincolnshire, Il, Us

Took the lead on providing a visionary outlook for application solutions across Zebra’s global portfolio. Led the user experience of a large portfolio of service designs and cross-product initiatives, ensuring they met strategic business and user experience objectives.• Regularly trusted to deliver visionary retail experiences to C-level executives at Fortune 50 companies• Re-envisioned health care experiences using Zebra’s tech. to reduce errors and increased speed and efficiency• Established the “Experiences” practice within the organization delivering service design solutions for top tier customers• Crafted the vision of “Real-time Workflow Optimization” presented to senior leadership, which today is one of Zebra’s top initiatives

Lincolnshire, Il, Us

After the acquisition of iFactr, I was tasked with establishing the new global app services portfolio as Zebra shifted gears from a purely hardware centric organization to incorporate software solutions and consulting services to address Healthcare, Retail, Manufacturing and T&L sectors.• Oversaw the transition of our team of 37 UX/Devs. to establish the app services and solutions division Zebra now offers post acquisition• Designed progressive sales communication methods to educate and motivate teams on new service and solution offers, receiving the Zebra Star Award (a peer recognition award)• Demonstrated the value of sales through experiences to establish the vision of the possible and unlock deals with customers• Drove communication across matrixed teams to introduce and demonstrate the resources and capabilities available in App Services

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Head of marketing and user experience for the Monocross & iFactr cross platform mobile enterprise platforms. Using lean startup, growth hacking and design thinking methodologies we grew the business from a few lines of code to Fortune 500 acquisition in five years.• Lead experiences architect on Apple’s largest iPad app deployment of 2010 (Medtronic)• Received patent for mobile app modernization methods and apparatus• Contributor on the book “iPad in the Enterprise” writing the user experience design chapters• Mentored and managed a direct team of six UX, six dev. constructing cross-platform rapid prototyping processes across multiple projects

St. Paul, Mn, Us

I ran all marketing efforts for the services devision, defined UX methodologies & processes, established best practices, and oversaw all mobile user experience efforts. In this I manage/mentor my team of user experience creatives and developers to research, plan, design, and build cross platform mobile applications for iPad, iPhone, Android, Windows Modern, Windows Phone, Windows Compact, and Web using iFactr.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, Us

Acted as the principal at Bucca, an Interactive media and marketing, a web/mobile design and development agency specializing in the health and medical related fields.Work encompassed a wide variety of tasks including business analysis, project management, project scoping/design, user experience, usability testing, development of web/mobile applications, and managing remote teams. Details available upon request.

Marlborough, Ma, Us

Architect and technical lead of a self-contained client side mobile application built to auto sync time sensitive, business critical initiatives globally across the organization. Working with multiple internal business units I acted as the bridge to the sales force managing the platform.

Pennsauken, New Jersey, Us

Worked with companies such as Best Buy & 3M (and other smaller companies:-) on web centric business solutions ranging from building an online shopping cart system from the ground up, to organizing the many brands and product categories of 3M under one unified business identity.

Minnetonka, Minnesota, Us

Was part of the Web Design & Development department working with client technology companies from all over the United States to construct personalized recuiting pages for those businesses. Worked extensively in Photoshop and Dreamweaver to produce cross platform user interfaces.

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