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San Francisco Bay Area

San Francisco Bay Area

San Francisco Bay Area

Delivered creative concepts and visual designs for enterprise clients while coordinating strategies, directing junior staff, facilitating stakeholder workshops, and conducting user research.• Designing User-Centered Experiences: translated business goals and user needs into seemless and delightful experiences, including an employment brand for Facebook that visualizes their inclusive values and helped them grow from ~9K employees to ~25K employees as well as a workplace design for Bloomberg that weaves aspirational stories into a distinctive wayfinding program—resulting in recognition from 5 design awards and 2 feature articles. • Creating and Codifying Brand Identities: evaluated user needs for Autodesk’s youth audience (K–12) to develop a new brand identity, social media campaign, and motion graphics that were successfully launched in 2017 to ~5 million users of Tinkercad—their entry level 3D software.• Research and Insights-driven Strategies: Planned and facilitated a 2-day, 19 participant design workshop for San Antonio’s EPICenter—a clean energy tech hub (opening 2021)—while directing a multidisciplinary team to craft an exhibit experience comprised of narrative strategies, visitor personas, interaction flows, and exhibit prototypes.

San Francisco Bay Area

Contributed visual design, storyboards and prototypes, information architecture, and creative direction to cross-disciplinary teams of ~10 while successfully managing client relationships.• Rapid Concepting and Prototyping: collaboratively shaped the content strategy and design direction for a 5,000 square feet Sustainability Treehouse exhibit program including a detailed visitor journey, prototypes for five major exhibits, and a distinctive visual identity while providing support to a team of architects, writers, fabricators, and video producers—leading to 11 design awards, 3 feature articles, and a 4.5/5 aggregate score (from 2K visitors).• Verbal Communication and Presenting: presented brand concepts and interaction flows to Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, and Muse product and marketing teams for Adobe Creative Cloud Featurette Videos—leading to 10 additional contracts comprising 30+ months of engagement and 57 unique product and branding deliverables.

Creative strategy and hands-on execution for Janie and Jack, Crazy 8, Shade, and Gymboree e-commerce experiences, digital marketing campaigns, and user interaction modules.• Collaborating with Multidisciplinary Teams: designed UI and UX systems and guidelines for The Gymboree Group’s acquired brand Shade while managing assets in support of engineering.• Design Research and Insights-driven Strategies: presented a competitive landscape overview and strategy recommendations for Crazy 8 and Gymboree’s forthcoming digital re-brand.

Contributed to a cross-disciplinary team to re-brand smartphone and webOS pioneers Palm with a distinctive graphic palette including custom illustrations, typography and color guidelines, and photography direction.

I joined Jeremy Mende—my then graduate professor—and his team to craft experiences for a range of clients. Our award-winning SFMOMA program guide celebrates the hundredth anniversary of Futurism’s founding manifesto.

For a time I embraced the challenge of bidding on, managing, and designing project-based engagements for diverse industries. This was a period of rapid growth for my interaction design and business skills.

For four years I was a freelance designer across DWR’s e-commerce, print catalog, and studio environment teams. This range helped me to mature as a designer—growing more capable of solving complex challenges from start to finish and delivering coherent systems that work across channels.

San Francisco Bay Area

After presenting my senior thesis, I was recruited to work at my professor’s studio where I designed, coded, and launched Flash websites. Through this process, empathy-based interaction design became a cornerstone of my practice.

It is a gift to work for someone you truly admire. I learned how to continuously sustain inspiration from studio founder Amy Franceschini while producing web assets for Star Wars: Episode I.

Before I learned to set column grids in Adobe software, a fellow East Bay street artist handed down this job creating in-store signage for Rasputin Records and several clothing stores that shared its owner. My “Dressing Rooms” sign on the third floor at 2350 Telegraph Avenue still hangs. It is made from hand-cut metal and it did cut my hands straight through gardening gloves while shearing the glyphs. I think of this as a seminal time in my design career.

Master Of Fine Arts - Mfa, Transdisciplinary Design

Bachelor Of Fine Arts - Bfa, Graphic Design

Fine/Studio Arts, General