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San Mateo County, California, United States

Leading a talented team focused on improving user experiences across Roblox’s consumer and creator surfaces through platform and systems building. Driving consistent and engaging interfaces for mobile, desktop, console, and XR.

San Mateo, California, United States

Architected the global design organization across 8 brands and 5 countries, ensuring clear roles, responsibilities, and alignment within the team. Implement a transparent, engaging, and compelling team culture that drives personal accountability and strong alignment with Xplor’s organizational and customer goals.Spearheaded the creation of the Apollo Enterprise Design System—driving consistency and efficiency across teams, brands, and products at Xplor. Evangelize adoption and continual contribution to the system and empower teams of designers and engineers to incorporate Apollo into their daily practice.Developed talent across the global design team, including people managers. Responsible for hiring, firing, and promoting to build the best possible team. Shaped the UX/design strategy across products and teams within Xplor, Fitness and Wellbeing. Collaborate with the VPs of Product and the Chief Product Officer to align teams’ efforts towards achieving product vision and strategy. Elevated the understanding of design impact and value within the organization by aligning design to business outcomes and goals.

Washington, District Of Columbia

Directed the design and research team through a period of growth and acquisition by Xplor. Solidified a lasting culture of collaboration, empathy, and resilience. Standardized the process for delivering thoughtful, well-validated solutions. Partnered with Product and Engineering to accomplish our collective goals.Evangelized research as an integral part of a designer’s daily practice and core role expectation. Drove user understanding through constant discovery, evaluation, and contact with customers. Transitioned the team into a remote workplace and established rituals like weekly design crits, team meetings, and social coffee chats to maintain our culture through the transition to remote work.

Washington, District Of Columbia

Clients include Volkswagen, Obama Foundation, Capital One, International Rescue Committee, NHL, National Aquarium, Shell/Jiffy Lube, Accion, CTIA.Clients included Volkswagen, Obama Foundation, Capital One, International Rescue Committee, NHL, National Aquarium, Shell/Jiffy Lube, Accion, CTIA.Led creative for new business and pitched to prospective clients. Played a leading role in bringing in over $3 million in revenue. Owned the end-to-end creative delivery of multiple concurrent projects. Maintained client and stakeholder relationships and led touchpoints like sprint reviews, executive summaries, and strategy share-outs, always finding opportunities to put design team members directly in front of clients. Facilitated workshops to identify project goals, brand positioning, and product roadmaps.Managed and mentored visual designers in the interactive practice. Responsible for hiring new talent, managing project staffing and workload, and conducting performance reviews. Served on the leadership team, responsible for shaping team culture.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Washington D.C. Metro Area

+ Led a core team of 12 committee members to execute programming, marketing, and sponsorships/partnerships for DC Design Week 2016 and 2017.+ Established a new vision for DC Design Week that exceeded benchmarks for AIGA DC—surpassing our goals for awareness, participation, and ticket sales. The vision rested on 3 concepts—Cultivate, Celebrate, Collaborate.+ Lead a creative vision that shaped the visual language for the festival. Worked with the Gensler creative team to produce physical signage and place-making as well as Jumbie Industries to execute production and laser engraving. ———The general public was more aware of DCDW than ever before, made evident not only by anecdotal and surveyed responses but #DCDW trended a number of times in DC while in pre-election weeks.———We held the largest event AIGA DC has ever put on selling 400 tickets for Debbie Millman and Abbott Miller at the National Building Museum.———Overall highest collected ticket sales for any DCDW previous at around 1,300.

Dc

Delivered human-centered design for federal clients including NIH, Department of Education, IRS, and Customs and Border Protection. Served in a consultative fashion, working directly with clients to achieve their goals through strategic technology-based solutions. Worked in a highly collaborative environment alongside a team of engineers, product, and accounts.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

+ Lead the design for responsive web solutions, branding, and print collateral. Execute web projects through all phases, including discovery and UX, content structure, design, and QA/polishing in the browser. + Directly interface with clients to lead presentations and creative intakes.+ Collaborate with cross-functional teams of developers, strategists, and designers. + Led the design and UX for Social Driver’s website redesign. + Won first prize for ExcillenEd’s My School Information Challenge; redesigned public school state reporting systems. http://myschoolinfochallenge.com/

Vienna, Va

+ Lead the print creative during Wolf Trap’s brand refresh. Shape the look and feel of the brand while working with an outside agency—creating fresh designs that are later picked up by myself and designer colleagues.+ Coordinate and design print advertising and marketing collateral including more than 200 print ads in a single season in publications such as The Washington Post, Express, City Paper, Washingtonian, and OnTap. In Summer 2013, Created new ad layouts that contributed to a 15% increase in sales. + Collaborate with Marketing, Programming, and Copywriting colleagues to craft effective content tailored to specific demographics. + Mentor and supervise graphic design interns. Art direct and manage projects produced by seasonal/freelance designers and interns. Art direct photographers on assignment. + Manage multiple internal clients, in conjuction with the creative team, to design projects that serve the entire foundation. Work with the web team to create emails and web assets and implement them in Magnet Mail and Sitecore CMS.

Baltimore, Maryland Area

Vienna, Va

Winchester, Virginia

Winchester, Virginia

Mm, Music Performance – French Horn

Bm, Music Performance - French Horn

Activities and Societies: Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia - Mens Music Fraternity