As a member of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) design team, leading and collaborating on projects involving UX design and technology as it relates to AI, eCommerce and software applications.

Collaboratively led design and development teams through the project life cycle for innovative digital and interactive experiences. Project management of complex environmental installations as well as highly visible UX focused digital experiences. Maintained budgets, schedules, documentation, technical specifications and reporting of milestones. Translated between key stakeholders, creative teams and technology groups. Collaborated with industrial designers and vendors to develop, test and launch new espresso machine for Starbucks. Liaison between all stakeholders from executives to design to engineering, translating ideas and business requirements. Through information architecture solutions and usability testing, created various prototypes and built an efficient and easy to use espresso machine that is currently being rolled out to every Starbucks in the world. Developed and managed the installation of an innovative technology center for the Golden State Warriors. Through a guided tour with sound, video and interactive technologies the visitors experienced an excitement around the new stadium. This engagement culminated in sold out suites as well as the sale of a majority of personal seat licenses. Created distinctly branded touch screen for Starbucks latest premium coffee vending machine. Working with mechanical engineers and branding specialists to balance the cutting-edge of design and technology with ease of use and comprehension for customers by creating and testing various wire-frames and high fidelity prototypes with target audiences. The Serenade machine has been successfully rolled out to college campuses, hospitals and corporate offices throughout the world.

Created unique, high quality, brand centric experiences involving cutting-edge technologies, rapid prototyping and complex design with innovative user experience design solutions. Built and led in-house voiceover and sound recording studio. UX and UI responsive development and design for both analog and digital projects as well as removing roadblocks and pushing projects to completion via project management.Led a diverse team of designers, developers, audio and video vendors and construction crew for the creation of a private museum for Airbus. This experience helped educate government officials with an array of boundary pushing technologies that show the range of Airbus’s product offerings. Created an immersive sound and visual observatory visitor experience at the Empire State Building. This stimulating and educational exhibition resulted in significant repeat business for Hornall Anderson as well as increased ESB’s social footprint. Led sound design and technology implementation for section of Microsoft’s CES booth in which participants created a dynamic audio and visual space by turning on and off audio and video loops. The greater the participation the more enveloping the space became. Installation was mentioned in several CES articles as well as being heavily filmed and photographed.Built out in-house project studio used for both voiceover and audio for video work. Acted as resident in-house recording and mixing engineer for recording video and radio voiceovers, music and sound effects for videos for clients including Fred Hutch, T-Mobile, Microsoft, HTC, Obliteride.

Balanced the creative and technical facets of product development and execution for a wide array of clients and project types.Implemented several pieces of a large-scale sales center for Madison Square Gardens that engaged visitors through multi-room journey as well as an online website. Due to this exciting installation, all of the suites were sold prior to the completion of the renovation of the Garden. Designed, coded and installed various entertaining and educational interactions for Seattle’s Space Needle observatory technology upgrade. After installation, the Space Needle saw significant increase in visitors.Coded, designed and implemented various websites and online applications using web-based best practices in html, css, jquery and flash for clients including: Fred Hutch, SunChips, PepsiCo, CitationAir and Chempoint.

Focus on designing and implementing various testing regiments and standards company wide.

Testing various front-end website features, user experiences and back-end fulfillment systems.