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New York, Ny, Us

Designing cohesive solutions for desktop, mobile, and email alerts across three independent applications, ensuring seamless user experiences and consistent outputs.Collaborating to pioneer the regenerative AI experience across 3 applications, visualizing rapidly changing multidimensional events into dynamically updating briefs, giving users a wholistic view of of an unfolding event. Leading the creation of a custom design system. Working closely with engineering to develop a comprehensive, reusable library and, additionally, integrating an open-source library to enhance the system’s versatility.Regularly presenting vision, workflows, and design decisions to senior leadership, engineering teams, and other stakeholders, ensuring alignment and clarity across the organization. Known for simplifying complex workflows and providing clear direction.Collaborating with Engineering and Product partners to consistently ensure alignment of technical requirements with business goals and user needs.Leading the design of alerts within MS Teams, guiding placement of data within Teams' structure and provided application assets meeting integration requirements.Providing up-to-date workflows, UI screens, and direction to Marketing and Sales for use in promotional videos, websites, pitch decks, and conferences. Created a Figma library to streamline quick-turnaround requests and align branding efforts.

Monroe, Louisiana , Us

Animation for UX: Self-taught and implemented Lottie file techniques to create reusable animations, improving user waiting experiences and enhancing overall engagement.Accessibility Advocate: Provided guidance to the UX team on accessibility best practices and tools, ensuring designs met inclusive and accessible standards for all users.

Rochester, Ny, Us

Led the full design lifecycle of digital products, including user research, interface design, usability testing, and iteration. Collaborated closely with engineering teams to ensure seamless design implementation.Designed experiences of key products for HR, billing, and activity coordination businesses, delivering high-quality, user-friendly solutions.Conducted user interviews, usability tests, and data analysis to uncover user, product, and business challenges, ensuring user-centered designs for enterprise-level clients.Partnered with cross-functional teams to develop both long and short-term strategies for new features and product iterations, impacting millions of users. Worked closely with product managers and engineers to refine design requirements.Played a key role in developing an enterprise-level design system, proposing and negotiating framework changes to enhance scalability and design consistency across products.Facilitated design collaboration sessions and participated in department-wide education initiatives and team-building activities, fostering a collaborative and innovative team culture.

Clients: Alfred State College, 36 Software, PK TravelsTypographic Motion Design: Designed motion boards based on provided scripts, collaborating with and author to convey meaning through abstract typographic animation.Commercial & Promotional Video Production: Created motion graphics for college promotional materials and TV commercials, delivering engaging visual content that aligned with branding and marketing objectives.Video Editing & Production: Managed and edited over 40 hours of travel footage into a concise, engaging 5-minute YouTube video, showcasing strong narrative and pacing skills.Trade Show & Online Promotional Videos: Designed and animated promotional videos for Smart Docs and Smart Docs University, enhancing visibility and engagement at trade shows and online platforms.

Rochester, Ny, Us

Video Editing & Production: Gathered footage and cut together the 2015 Center for Campus Life promotional video, including motion graphic typography design. Shot and edited the Center for Campus Life employee training videos.

Rochester, Ny, Us

Website Design: Led the redesign of the RIT Center for Campus Life website, improving usability and enhancing the visual appeal to better serve students and staff.Video Editing: Edited the 2014 Campus Life promotional video, ensuring a polished and engaging final product that highlighted the center’s offerings.Motion Graphics: Designed and animated a motion version of the Center for Campus Life logo, creating a dynamic visual identity for use across digital platforms.Print Design: Designed print materials for clubs and organizations, delivering creative and visually compelling assets to support campus engagement and events.

Rochester, Ny, Us

Team Leadership: Managed a team of 5 staff artists, overseeing design direction and ensuring cohesive visual outputs across all projects.Website Design: Designed the official website for RIT FreezeFest 2015, creating a user-friendly and visually engaging experience for festival attendees.Video Production: Conceptualized, shot, and edited "RITerrified" Halloween scare video and time-lapse promo video for FreezeFest 2015, combining creativity and storytelling to engage the campus community.Social Media & Branding Assets: Designed social media assets that increased engagement and promoted RIT FreezeFest, ensuring consistent branding across all platforms.Motion Graphics: Created a dynamic motion logo for FreezeFest 2015, used across promotional materials to enhance brand recognition.

Rochester, Ny, Us

As a lab assistant, I was responsible for assisting students with work, maintaining the cleanliness and organization of the lab, and securing the room after hours.

Rochester, Ny, Us

Being a Staff Artist covers a wide range of free advertising for campus events. I painted banners and window art/advertisements for clubs and organizations, as well as created digital flyers, web banners, and LCD screen ads. This job included one-on-one communication with clients, quick turn around, and attentiveness to campus life.

Designed interactions for a flash game for the RIT Museum Games & Tech. Initiative. Animated character features and environment props and animated navigation buttons. Worked with a team of 5, managed one junior animator.

Alfred, Ny, Us

I was a temporary replacement for the current Publications Designer. I designed, college brochures, flyers, mailers, newsletters, and other advertisements. I also worked on college view books, billboards, and sustainability conference marketing, and co-designed a motion graphics piece for the 2012 freshmen convocation. During this time, I worked directly with other designers, social media outlets, and printing companies.

Alfred, Ny, Us

Master Of Fine Arts (Mfa), Computer Graphics Design (Visual Communication Design)

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Digital Media And Animation