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Atlanta, Ga, Us

Stockholm, Stockholm County, Se

Supporting designers that are creating tools for artists around the world

Atlanta, Ga, Us

Currently supporting 10 product designers, 3 graphic email specialists & 3 content designers working on email including content generation to aid in the creation process.Notable:+ Launched email template library + Launched a number of editing improvements to lead to our new editor moving out of beta and being the standard for new users+ Launched the first user-facing AI-generated feature by Intuit, to help users generate copy in their emailsFeb - Sep 2022Supported 7 product designers and 2 content designers that worked in the email, forms, and landing page spaces.Notable:+ Launched new email success page, focusing user tasks while adding back in delight+ Promoted senior to staff level designer and enabled their strategic growth to provide vision for landing pages and forms+ Created better definition between manager & staff roles

Atlanta, Ga, Us

Coached, mentored, and grew designers that worked in the sites & scheduling space. Our goal was to find easy ways for small businesses to start with us and get online quickly and support their unique needs.Notable:+ Launched new website builder + Launched appointments capability+ Promoted team member from Jr - Mid, coached Intern - Jr role+ Contributed to promotion practices and career leveling conversations, creating skill wheel to measure and show progress+ Established critique process with content strategy, research, and product design+ Created space to share work across product / design leadership to encourage end to end thinking+ Grew team from 4 to 6

Atlanta, Ga, Us

Lead designer for our website builder

Atlanta, Ga, Us

I worked on a cross-functional team that improved our core search experience. These areas of focus include design system creation, product design, and information architecture. This covers the full life cycle of design discovery work (strategy, wireframes, design, and prototyping) as well as supporting execution for our engineering teams. I provided leadership/coaching to the design team on problem definition, responsive strategy, performance considerations, and atomic design.Notable projects:+ Creation of AXL our cross-platform design system which includes components and usage guidelines for all agile project teams across Autotrader. Manages governance process and backlog. + Designed prototype that captures dynamic and personalized concepts to shape the product roadmap for the next 3+ years.+ Released new login experience that doubled social sign-ins, reduced friction in registrations, improved password retrieval, and greatly reduced customer support sales calls.

Mayfield Village, Oh, Us

Lead UX Designer for flows involving acquiring new customers online or through an agent. Our goal was to continuously identify how to optimize our experiences and also make them cohesive across different channels. Worked closely with business managers to define, design and test the experience. Worked directly with IT managers, developers, and testers to see concepts taken into production.Notable Projects:+ Combined mobile and flash quoting applications into a single application utilizing a mobile-first responsive approach. Improved overall conversion while decreasing overhead and prevented rebuilding of unnecessary features.+ Created first roadside assistance capability in both the iOS and Android mobile apps.+ Streamlined accident/violation workflow giving customers a more accurate soft rate, reducing rate changes further down the funnel+ Streamlined buy flow increasing conversion while decreasing time to buy.+ Created form style guides for the UX organization to encourage consistency across experiences.Fun fact: At Progressive I ran my designs through ~50 usability tests both in-lab and remote.

Mayfield Village, Oh, Us

Cleveland, Ohio, Us

Lead designer/front-end developer for the largest educational resource for physicians to earn Continuing Medical Education credit online. Pushed educational content creators and physicians to utilize rich and interactive content presentation methods.+ Redesigned and developed medical education site, involving over 500 pages of content+ Built the first online transcript system for CME for a healthcare system+ Created an online webcasting portal to provide a YouTube-like experience for medical content+ Defined design standards for the Education Institute+ Created design templates for websites and emails for content creators+ Earned over 20 eHealthcare and Web Health awards

Cleveland, Ohio, Us

Was part of a two person in-house marketing design team that incorporated new brand identity in all print and web pieces.Notable Projects:+ Redesigned and developed university website, while launching in under six months+ Completely overhauled “Discover”, Tri-State University’s quarterly magazine

Designer of supplemental educational content for McGraw Hill textbooks.Fun fact: For this job I wrote lingo for modules, a now retired programming language for CD-Roms.

Bfa, Digital Art

Med, Instructional Technology