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Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area

Portland, Oregon, United States

• Gardenstead
• Industry placement through Springboard.
• Collaborated with client and design team to ideate potential solutions for developing company growth strategy and vision.
• Developed and synthesized research (competitive analysis, demographics, and user interviews) to gain a better understanding of user needs and business growth options.
• Created personas, user flows, wireframes, high-fidelity, interactive prototypes, and usability tests. Long Beach Running
• Designing website for a new running club in Long Beach, WA.

Remote

• Interviewed & enlisted apprentices to build UX design team.
• Facilitating the iterative design process as design lead in building a donation page and Slack integration for Beela.se.
• Collaborating with multi-disciplinary teams in creating high-fidelity, development-ready screens for handoff to stakeholders.

Union High School

• CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT & DESIGN
• Designed and created materials used by instructors at five high schools for courses including Graphic Design, 3D Animation, Game Design, Photography, Drawing, Painting, Ceramics, Yearbook, and more.
• Drove and facilitated change to industry standard animation software at all five high schools in the district, training colleagues and problem solving as needed.LEADERSHIP & MENTORING
• Led Digital Arts Steering Committee, using an equity lens to lead actions in district-wide departments, acquiring input from community stakeholders, and presenting achievements to the school board.
• Mentor for new teachers in a year-long program focused on new teacher retention.
• Created professional development opportunities for 150+ staff while on the Equity Team at Union High School.COACHING & GUIDANCE

Portland, Oregon, United States

• Supervised, led, and expanded the training team from 3 to 12 people, using logical thinking, problem solving, and adapting organizational roles along the way.
• Recognized the need for and established a Spanish language training team.
• Managed the hiring and training expansion, adding 600 new employees to a new job site in one year, problem solving for rapid expansion with creative thinking.
• Developed new training programs, techniques, and client-branded materials, adapting to rapidly and frequently changing client and business needs.
• Led and coordinated new hire classes increasing to 3 classes per day, 6 days per week, establishing use of diplomatic language in both training and customer interactions.
• Created and facilitated a training evaluation program.

Lake Oswego, Oregon, United States

Started a two-person design company with a former university classmate, providing visual designs and physical prototypes to clients such as Suze Orman Financial Solutions.

Ux Design Career Track, Certification

- 350+ hours of hands-on curriculum, with 1:1 industry expert mentor oversight. - Three in-depth capstone projects completed. - Mastering.

Master Of Education (Med), Art Teacher Education

graduate student of art education

Bachelor Of Fine Arts (Bfa), Graphic Design

Associate Of Science - As, Graphic Design