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Raleigh, North Carolina, US

• Onboarded into a startup team to help revamp all aspects of customer experience, from product marketing to physical and digital product design. Directly contributing to communicating the design direction of social.
• Directing the customer experience of MyMatR's digital presence with extensive research and audits of other competitive waste tech and SaaS websites to help communicate the company's unique offering.
• Refreshed MyMatR's branding & identity design to better align with how the company hoped to position itself amongst industry competition.
• Collaborated with a team of 3+ marketers to develop effective email and social media campaign strategies that took advantage of MyMatR's full-service media, such as whitepapers and product brochures.
• Established visual design guidelines to create a digital brand design system for user interface elements on MyMatR's digital product as well as their print media.

IE

• Clients Include: R/GA | Proto---------As a freelance experience designer, I've had the privilege of collaborating with a diverse range of clients, including 2 high-profile digital marketing agencies, to deliver.
• Conducted thorough consultations with clients to understand better their unique goals, visions, and user needs.
• Facilitated the end-to-end UX design process for multiple product, service, and web design workstreams, from ideation to prototyping to implementation.
• Conceptualized over 100 wireframes, mockups, and high-fidelity prototypes using tools such as Figma, Notion, and HTML/CSS to guide clients in visualizing the user journey.
• Conducted user research through auditing, stakeholder interviews, and market analysis to inform design decisions.
• Collaborated closely with developers, founders, and other designers to meet user experience, branding, and product design project deadlines.

Austin, Texas, US

• Developed games as a freelance game UX and product designer with a focus on interaction design to create game-ready prototypes for developers and engineers, including other responsibilities, such as:
• Performed extensive competitive audits of games to create reports for clients to address customer/stakeholder feedback better.
• Visualized wireframes to communicate interactions with annotations in tools such as Figma that UI artists polished and and handed off to Unity & Unreal engineers.
• Revamped UXIF's branding with a slight brand design refresh to create assets and content for LinkedIn, boosting followers and traffic to the company account by 50%.I had the opportunity to collaborate on a few A-AA.

New York, NY, US

• As a UX designer at the agency R/GA, I created best-in-class experiences and campaigns for a diverse range of products and clients. My responsibilities included:
• Working closely with design and product managers to advance the design process for 10+ clients such as Verizon, CVS, and American Express.
• Conducted extensive user research and usability audits to synthesize findings into actionable design improvements that would have a meaningful impact on the overall user experience.
• Presented detailed service blueprints and user journey maps to clients that resonated with user needs and met business objectives.
• Collaborated closely with cross-functional teams, including developers, visual designers, and producers, to ensure successful project management and implementation that adhered to project timelines.
• Engaged with tools like Figma, Miro, and the Adobe Suite for wireframing, prototyping, and maintaining design systems.This role sharpened my design skills and expanded my understanding of the relationship between user.

New York, NY, US

Bolstered UX efforts under 5+ design teams to get a broad overview of UX design within an agency structure. Directly influenced the development of client products, campaigns, and experiences in 10+ person teams.

New Haven, CT, US

Designed page layout and other print and digital media as 1 of 2 designers within the marketing team. Established effective communication to speed up the design process. This included creating 100% of the internal media for the marketing team, including 2-3 monthly reports.

Cooperated with fellow designers to create a file structure allowing a team of 7+ designers and managers to see the status of design work tat was in-progress, complete, and archived. Maintained NC State's design system to create digital and print assets with consistent branding & identity and page layout.

Richmond, Virginia, US

Bachelor'S Degree, Graphic And Experience Design

Graphic Design

High School Diploma