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Delivering traditional and digital graphic design and communication services. Extensive experience with the design, content development, and delivery of:• Executive presentations• Printed Materials• User Interfaces & Websites• Infographics• Social Media campaignsWork often involves:• Refining key messages and crafting data visualizations and infographics to better tell a story.• Interviewing subject matter experts and select user groups to gather and document business needs.• Translating business needs and functional requirements into detailed design and functional specifications including use cases, work-flow and process scenarios, and wire frames (visual representations of the intended solution).• Reviewing design concepts and wire frames with select user groups to validate business needs and functional requirements and to facilitate customer approval of the specifications.• Designing intuitive user interfaces according to customer-approved specifications.

Teaching cooking, canning and food preservation classes in the Portland and Seattle areas, instructing students according to the guidelines and recommendations published by the National Center for Home Food Preservation, the USDA and land-grant universities in the Cooperative Extension System.

• Conducted interviews with key subject matter experts and documented details of processes related to Pharmacy Benefit Management.• Translated business needs and functional requirements into detailed business requirements specifications including use cases, work-flow and process scenarios.• Facilitated decision-making around project scope, staging and requirements.• Served as the lead business analyst for a multi-million dollar systems program providing oversight and guidance to additional analysts and facilitating an effective relationship between the Pharmacy Services division and the business analyst team.

• Established and grew a custom software application development team to expand the service offerings of Wadeware and better meet the needs of Wadeware’s client-base.• Identified and cultivated new business opportunities and managed established customer accounts.• Managed and assigned resources appropriately to multiple projects.• Forecasted, budgeted and managed costs for the practice and reported to the Wadeware executive team.• Established best practices and refined, documented and enforced an effective development methodology for delivering successful projects.• Served as a business analyst and design lead on development projects to ensure the tools we built were effective, intuitive, and met our clients’ business objectives.

• Responsible for the day-to-day management of a 9-person, full-service design and web development firm including: team management, project management, client relations, and business and strategic planning.• Established and managed partner alliances which eventually led to the acquisition of Aptigo.• Often contributed directly to project delivery serving as an account manager, interface designer, business analyst, and/or project manager.• Sourced and directed sub-contractors as needed.• Established and worked closely with client-base throughout the United States.

Ba, Economics, History

Certificate, Graphic Design & Desktop Publishing