Consult with digital design studios and socially conscious orgs to:• Manage at least 10 projects a week with competing priorities. Follow-up with clients, and ensure timely completion of milestones.• Provide graphic design, UX strategy, wireframe concepts, and enhance sites and apps.• Align new sites to design systems, extrapolating design as needed.Help grow small businesses to:• Develop their brand story through visual elements and content strategy. Design accompanying print and digital materials.• Design and build an audience-centered web presence.• Create a marketing strategy that solves the right problems, connects to their audience in meaningful ways, and increases business sales.

• UX lead for national and federal government brands. This included Crosby’s largest client and their suite of 13 co-branded sites that have over 2 million users per quarter. Provided strategic direction.• Conceptualized and delivered sites with often broad requirements including a congressionally-mandated site in a two-month timespan. • Built strong partnerships with clients and agency staff while managing and mentoring junior UX staff. Developed strong communication and collaboration with even the most challenging staff.• Created and presented UX artifacts including sitemaps, wireframes, prototypes, journey maps, and heuristic evaluations to stakeholders. This included conceptualizing, building, and growing design systems.Client Highlights: Military Community & Family Policy, Health Resources and Services Administration, Wallace Foundation, Center for Disease Control, Kaiser Permanente, and others.

• Provided UX design for a variety of national and federal government clients. This included websites, digital advertisements, and interactive initiatives. • Visualized ideas and concepts through wireframes, mockups, storyboards, and prototypes to integrate user research, client goals and allow for collaboration. • Presented to stakeholders to ensure a common strategic approach and technical understanding.• Managed project UX from concept to launch. Advocated for quality UX solutions.

• Managed ACDI/VOCA’s brand, created visuals, and developed internal communications initiatives. • Created graphics, publications, photos, videos, templates, and mentored staff to ensure communications best practices. • Initiated and led ACDI/VOCA brand refresh. Created new style guide and assisted with strategic visioning and messaging.• Worked closely with vice president to launch a new department for Internal Communications to ensure professional materials, an integrated process, and engaged staff. Strategized and implemented new communications vehicles. • Designed website, www.acdivoca.org, sister site, www.asintl.org and our intranet on SharePoint.• Traveled to Liberia and Ghana to shoot videos, photos, and train staff on communications.

• Designed and managed conference-wide graphics for 700 local United Methodist Churches. Helped set priorities and vision for Conference communications. Developed the Conference brand, including designing newspapers, marketing and branding material, web pages, packaging, logos, and books. • Regularly developed creative solutions for new initiatives such as coaching groups, sermon series, and devotional books.• Designed Conference website. Worked with web specialist on information architecture and implementation. • Developed and implemented a creative briefing processes to increase work flow.Served on teams tasked with organizational restructuring, architecture, and worship.Coordinated $130,000 printing budget. Managed relationships and deliverables with printers and freelancers. • Photographed events, people and objects for news coverage and graphic creation.

• Designed artwork for CD covers and labels.• Converted .pdf files into online yellow pages and debugged SVG code.

Assisted three art and photo directors. Achieved their goals ondeadline.

Supervised 450 adults and youth in construction and eveningprograms with three other staff members. Worked on a tightbudget with volunteers and community members.