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United States

California, United States

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SELECT RESPONSIBILITIESHandled product strategy by focusing on the goals, generating a compelling and shared vision, constantly understanding the product's value, establishing initiatives, and prioritizing the roadmap through value and opportunity.Translated user objectives, business requirements, and technical constraints into balanced solutions through user-centered design to provide product direction while testing assumptions.Led by example, provided product direction, established best practices and standards, removed roadblocks, developed team member's skills, and cultivated a highly collaborative environment.Rapidly developed prototypes in the appropriate level of fidelity to encapsulate the structured content, validate navigation needs, test the core functionality, and ultimately remove assumptions.SELECT ACCOMPLISHMENTSWhile helping teams convert to agile development, drove a series of major initiatives from conception to release that increased registrations, engagement, upgrade conversion rate, and return usage.Reached and maintained a 5 star rating in the iTunes App Store by distilling and analyzing user feedback, reviews, statistics, and competition to prioritize and manage enhancements to the mobile app.Saved the product team nearly $300,000 per year by operating with less resources while increasing the speed of design cycles and development productivity.Introduced and blended a user-centered design process with agile software development principles for early and continuous delivery of value to users and the business.

Reno, Nevada, Us

SELECT RESPONSIBILITIESManaged all aspects of user experience, including expectation setting in sales, brand promises in marketing, communications in customer service, development in engineering, and techniques in design.Managed interaction designers, information architects, visual designers, and front-end developers in multiple locations to handle numerous initiatives in a fast-paced environment while consistently delivering high-quality work.Analyzed user research, synthesized solution, and iteratively aimed for a minimal viable product to produce innovative and simple solutions to complex problems.Established a style guide, design patterns, a library of reusable assets, and development standards to form consistencies and cohesion across a large portfolio of products.SELECT ACCOMPLISHMENTSLed the design of the 1st enterprise SaaS solution serving the country’s largest financial institutions from conception to over 5 million per year revenue.Proposed, recruited, integrated, and managed a multi-location user experience team to support Clear Capital's portfolio of products serving top-tier financial institutions, like Wells Fargo, Freddie Mac, and Bank of America.Introduced and blended a user-centered design process with agile software development principles for early and continuous delivery of value to users and the business.Led the design of a digital product that empowers large financial institutions to do their due diligence in tracking their property portfolios containing loans that exceed 1 million dollars.

SELECT RESPONSIBILITIESTook care of product strategy, maintained roadmaps, drove initiatives, clarified scope of work, managed release schedules, and ensured excellent quality.Produced interactive solutions that were search engine optimized for prospects, compelling to consumers, integrated with CRM systems, and incorporated with administration tools.Monitored KPIs and feedback, observed and listened to the market, and adjusted the strategy as customer needs, usage, market conditions, technology, and trends changed.Develop brand credibility, identify behavior triggers, and leverage persuasive technology to induce actions and form strong user habits.SELECT ACCOMPLISHMENTSStarted an interactive agency that collaborated with over 50 clients in a wide range of industries, all from word-of-mouth, while generating 98.2% client satisfaction.Created a web application aimed at becoming the new standard in travel concierge services that gained white label discussions with the Ritz-Carlton.

SELECT RESPONSIBILITIESProjected an innovative outlook, constructively challenged current thinking, pushed boundaries, and drove changes that differentiate digital products.Modeled user and system tasks through task analysis to deliver interfaces that people want to use and are able to use easily.Led inbound marketing to attract highly qualified leads and maximize success in the key marketing activities of acquisition, conversion, and retention.SELECT ACCOMPLISHMENTDirected interactive strategy, designed interfaces, guided development, and drove marketing of a web-based travel service from startup to 2 million per year revenue with only 5 employees.

New York, Ny, Us

SELECT RESPONSIBILITIESCollaborated with the whole business and consumers to build balanced solutions by obtaining consensus and getting everyone moving in the same direction.Built consensus, balanced demands, gauged priorities, considered resource availability, and assigned team members to challenges that complement their skills and growth opportunities.Deployed surveys, formed user personas and scenarios, captured user journeys, interviewed target audience, performed contextual inquiries, and analyzed competition to discover user objectives along with the behavior insights that drive innovation.SELECT ACCOMPLISHMENTProposed, recruited, integrated, and managed a multi-location user experience team for TMP Worldwide’s U.S. operations to serve their Fortune 500 clients.

New York, Ny, Us

SELECT RESPONSIBILITIESSelected the best methods for effectively researching the target audience, communicating the design, and building consensus amongst the team as well as consumers.Observed the market, conducted and analyzed user research, formed hypotheses, tested riskiest assumptions, distilled data with user feedback, and made strategy adjustments.SELECT ACCOMPLISHMENTDesigned and developed successful websites, multimedia CDs, bootable business cards, and web advertisements for TMP Worldwide's Fortune 500 clients, including The Boeing Company, Charles Schwab, Applied Materials, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and Hewlett-Packard.

Weston, Ma, Us

SELECT RESPONSIBILITIESDesigned and developed Monster.com's website in addition to the majority of sales and marketing assets, including web applications, games, presentations, and videos.Created information architectures or system maps to organize functionality and content while establishing glossaries to align the terms used in the code, microcopy, and content.Tracked test cases, created usability test plans, and facilitated usability testing to validate assumptions made in the design process.SELECT ACCOMPLISHMENTFormed, installed, and supported a lean interactive development process for TMP Worldwide (parent company) in 9 major centers across 5 countries. This occurred during a period when the company went from the 7th to the 2nd best interactive agency.

Weston, Ma, Us

SELECT RESPONSIBILITIESWorked closely with the creative director to conceptualize designs and ensure original graphics, layouts, and animations aligned with the brand guidelines and strengthened brand positioning.Created mind maps, storyboards, user flows, task diagrams, information architectures, prototypes, and mockups to effectively communicate design to different disciplines and varying levels of the organization.Researched best practices within the industry to provide insight and suggestions for new design direction, techniques, and tools.SELECT ACCOMPLISHMENTSAs the 16th employee, played a lead role in designing and marketing Monster.com as it quickly became the leading career site, serving 9 countries with over 10 million unique visits per month.Combined the most valuable features of The Monster Board and Online Career Center into a single entity with new content and functionality while playing the lead design role in assisting with the merger.

Graduate Credits, Advanced Multimedia Design

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Major: Multimedia Design | Minor: Computer Science