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Portland, Oregon Area

I lead a team of digital experts in creating web design, system architecture, and product design to create custom digital experiences. Client engagements include:► Subscription Service – Partnered with ecommerce company to develop a subscription service backed by machine learning technology. Led team in creating user experience and building a complex customer profile that could be leveraged for product and service matchmaking and, ultimately, uniting customers with products they didn't even know they wanted yet. Backing this, team built a database for managing data collection and custom admin utilities for logistics teams to manage orders, products and billing.► App UX/UI Design – Leading UX / UI design for Tread, social networking app for Web, Android and iPhone, connecting car aficionados with a unique experience, ensuring consistency across platforms. Catering to a predominantly male demographic, crafted a minimalist look with textured car, mechanics and road elements. ► Ecommerce Platform – Festivalia is an ecommerce site with products for festival goers. We built the technical backdrop for their platform to operate as a storefront for multiple merchants. Also, we created a backend admin experience for Festivalia to easily roll-out new promotions, blog entries and campaigns, and built platform to manage shipping, taxes and tracking merchant payouts.► Integrated Platform – For Aegis Real Estate we designed / built an integrated platform for commercial real estate investors, building an interface to display lengthy financial specs in a user-friendly way. We allowed users to see pricing, place bids, e-sign, and make offers. Additionally, allowed investors to review, sign, or store all documents, making platform a one-stop for all transactions. ► Site Infrastructure – Worked with banking client to lead technical and ADA compliance, providing a refreshed look that is also compliant to avert impending accessibility suit.

San Francisco Bay Area

Over the years, I have played a growing leadership role on the Athena team, establishing standardized processes and coordinating execution across multiple departments. I have managed rollouts and ensured projects execute at every stage of the life cycle, from discovery through production to launch, and post-launch member and team support. Designing the future of the product has called for thinking about the platform from an operations, system architecture and member experience perspective within the parameters of a start-up business's resources. Combining people skills, development expertise and a designer's perspective, I've brought a multi-disciplined approach that informs how we bridge the gap across these diverse areas.Athena has always used technology to amplify our incredible human talent, which has required integrations between our proprietary platform and third-party services – Salesforce, Mailchimp, EventBrite, YouTube and more. I have led our team of developers to build out a series of integrations that have created the technological and data-powered support structure for Athena. In 3 years, I’ve led the creative direction, development and roll out of 3 comprehensive redesigns of Athena's digital brand and story – playing a critical role in shaping Athena’s web presence and visual brand as the organization has grown. In leading the development of the user platform from its infancy, I’ve expanded and shifted systems architecture for the platform through rapid growth as the Athena story and offerings has evolved. Creative, budget conscious solutions have helped keep Athena nimble to adapt to the growing needs of our members and demands of the marketplace. Additionally, I have led the direction on the platform's UX / UI - directing the design as well as overseeing its technical implementation, continually refining the platform user experience to better serve our members’ needs.

Dana Point, Ca

Clarify was a boutique marketing firm that provided a hire on marketing department for its regular clients. As a key player of the Clarify team, I designed the processes for executing the full life cycle of a project, leading the implementation and management of Asana, organization wide, where no project management framework existed before. I established this with such success that years after my departure, the company has made project management one of the leading services they provide their clients. As Project Manager, I also managed the development of new collateral and launch of marketing campaigns for client contracts. Many of Clarify's clientele originated in the Multi-Level Marketing (MLM) space, and our marketing efforts were both to consumers and internally to Independent Business Owners (IBOs). For instance, I worked with The Gold Refinery, where I managed the launch of new marketing campaigns – both outreach to new consumers and lead markets as well as the development of new marketing collateral for their services and for expanding and motivating their IBO network. Throughout our engagement, I managed the entire project life cycle from requirements gathering, to strategy, to production and through to campaign launch.Additionally, I oversaw the rollout, development and execution of large-scale lead generation campaigns. This included implementation of a cold lead to product conversion campaign for an MLM nutritional product company, Vemma. To execute this successfully, I coordinated our development and creative team to work in conjunction with the Vemma corporate legal and IT team. As an outside vendor, I managed the effort to successfully integrate with the Vemma customer, billing platform, and operations team to transact trial customer orders and distribute leads to their team. To conclude the engagement, I integrated their proprietary software and worked closely with their operations team.

Dana Point, Ca

I served as the lead project manager for Immedia, a company focused on branding and brand development. Typical projects included full brand redesign.► Brand Transformation – like we did for Matrix LED. We overhauled Matrix LED’s brand, which was showing its age – a major challenge for a technology service company. We crafted a new brand story, style guide, logo and total redesign, positioning Matrix as an energetic, tech-forward company with roots in entertainment. We also redesigned their website and key collateral such as business cards, emails and print work. As project manager, I was deeply involved in their discovery process, shaping the brand story and working with our designers to craft the logo. When we launched the re-branded digital effort, I ensured all pieces were executed flawlessly between copy, creative and technical teams for a seamless launch.► Brand Development – Launched Clar8ty with a full brand development effort. From the start they had a big vision: positioning themselves as a cutting-edge nutrition line, an MLM opportunity and a cultural movement. Bringing this to life required a unique balance of storytelling, research-backed evidence and motivation speak. I worked closely with their Chief Scientist to map out key takeaways and the copywriting team on turning published studies into compelling stories. With the design team, I managed the propagation of the brand to a rapidly growing body of marketing collateral including glossy print pieces, social media and a website launch. We were looking at a full brand launch schedule with an event, lead-up marketing campaign to build interest, and the eventual final reveal. Sticking the landing successfully was critical as a first impression to interested customers and potential partners.