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Chicago, Il, Us

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Lead a team of UX Architects and Researchers to support the agency's digital projects. Standardized the team's output and deliverables, allowing for consistent deliveries to clients and other internal disciplinesPut a more significant focus on research, adding dedicated research staff and expanding our understanding of users and user acceptance.As part of the senior leadership team, collaborated with other discipline leaders on projects and pitches, as well as set and meet company goals

Chicago

Founded and ran a small UX consultancy that leveraged expertise, design thinking, and agile methodologies to partner with brands or agencies to build teams to create definitions around concepts and take them to market as fast and efficiently as possible. Projects included work for clients such as Gore-Tex, Klaviyo, Samsung, Boston Consulting Group, and Underwriter Laboratories.

Chicago

UX consultant for Patagonia.com.UX lead for the launch of Meditation.com, Prana.com, Fjalraven.us.Project based work with various agencies including, Office of Experience, Razorfish, VSA, and Rightpoint.

Greater Chicago Area

• Launched UX practice and helped mold the digital creative processes for the newly launched Annex.• Lead a team that translated the campaign concept for a major promotional contest, into the digital realm. Including the first use of user generated content for the brand. Due to scheduling constraints, I led the team and client in an intense week-long iterative design process, and prototype development that exceeded expectations and allowed for full client buy in. • Launched a major redesign for Camel.com, focusing on articulating the brand vision and attributes, ignoring category norms. Post launch traffic was on par with historical numbers, and it saw an increase in time on site.• Established cross-agency processes to work with the established development agency partner and outside vendors• Developed a documentation process that facilitated both the iterative design flow and the need for update documentation for the legal review process necessary for tobacco.

Chicago

• Introduced agile methodologies into the development process• Initiated a rebrand in conjunction with an experience redesign based on mobile first principles. • Launched a redesigned and rebranded site experience.

Chicago

• Refined company vision into obtainable strategic steps that stretched through 8 quarters of product development. Managed the company’s product and development team with an agile methodology designed to meet both deadlines and requirements. Created and maintained product roadmap based on the strategic vision. • Through a redesign of the homepage and brochure site, increased visits to the music search tool by over 230%, and increased qualified sales leads by 410%.• Developed and launched an updated comprehensive permissions set for customers accessing the music search tool, which allowed sales staff to customize client access permissions with over 5,000 variations. • Launched, maintained, and iterated the company’s music search tool, while increasing active user searches by 60% and active users by 200%.

Chicago

• UX Lead embedded within the Deal Experience product team whose goal was to optimize and innovate within the main consumer channel from e-mail through to checkout.• Conceptualized, tested, and advocated an updated site navigation that worked with Groupon’s growing portfolio of deals. The challenge was to maintain the ease of navigation while integrating • Designed, executed, and iterated a consumer personalization feature that resulted in a 20% adoption rate among all US subscribers within the first three months.• Researched, designed, and launched Groupon’s travel vertical, Getaways, which required reformatting all views to account for information unique to the travel industry. Within 6 months, Getaways was the leading revenue source.

Developed and taught the curriculum for the Introduction to Web Studio Course.

An award-winning interactive boutique, the now-defunct Royal Order focused on interactive solutions for upscale clients such as Kohler, Patagonia, Crate & Barrel Sub Zero and Wolf. Besides acting as our User Experience Director, I managed our multi-year relationship with Patagonia as the client partner/account manager.

Bachelor Of Fine Arts, Graphic Design

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