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Houston, Texas, US

San Francisco, California, US

• Responsible for leading multi-disciplined project teams in Prophet’s Digital Experience & Creative (DXC) group.
• Bottom-up approach to team management, insuring a collaborative voice to enhance the strengths of individual contributors
• Provided oversight and lead design activities across client and internal projects
• Drove design quality, practice, and offerings that achieve business and user goals
• Assessed performance and provided career guidance and performance decisions for members of the Experience team
• Developed pitch decks and project approaches, leading to exciting, inspiring, and well-shaped work

Austin, Texas, US

• Responsible for leading Cratejoy’s design practice, including delivery of brand, marketing, and product design.
• Support planning and alignment for vision, mission, and strategy related to UX initiatives
• Evangelize and incorporate design thinking into how we work across design, product, and engineering, and represent design and user experience across company leadership
• Provide brand guidance and coaching to ensure a high degree of brand consistency remains intact between marketing and product implementations
• Assist marketing and CS teams with product marketing design collateral and video production

• Managing the operation of an independent design consultancy.
• Build and maintain client relationships through networking and referrals
• Develop strong customer base of new and existing clients by maintaining customer satisfaction and high quality deliverables
• Manage and coordinate multiple client work-streams
• Produce design-related artifacts and outcomes for multiple project types: Product design, experiential design, brand design, game design, web design, and marketing design

• Responsible for leading YEI’s design practice, including delivery of product design as well as the education of UCD across business units. Highlights include:
• Led in the professional development and management of the product design team
• Attracted, developed and retained design talent and created an environment that fosters design excellence
• Instituted a culture of user testing for design validation
• Instituted a Design Language System to accelerate product development and ensure visual consistency platform-wide
• Supported the planning and proposals for design and development of vision, mission, and strategy related to corporate UX initiatives

• Co-led team of designers, content strategists, and video producers to build inspiring digital experiences and products for a broad selection of clients. Clients included Caesars Entertainment, John Deer, and KFC.
• Collaborated with design, business development, engineering and project management teams across the agency to work in the best interest of our clients and maximize the agency’s strategic resources
• Directed and managed various strategic client accounts of approximately $2 Million
• Developed and maintained relationships with key client stakeholders
• Participated in creative brainstorms and provided clear creative direction for the design team
• Drove the development of frameworks that described key aspects of a proposed experience, and how it reconciled business and user needs

• Responsible for all creative efforts, managing the design team across various interactive product initiatives. Worked closely with agency leadership to develop retainer relationship, communicate with clients, and grow.
• Oversaw creative deliverables for Fortune 500 accounts
• Directed the design of experiential installations across digital platforms
• Managed and produced all creative efforts devoted to business development for the agency
• Led multi-disciplinary design team comprised of visual designers, content strategists and 3D engineers

Austin, Texas, US

Drove creative strategy and direction for B2B interactive marketing agency. Managed a design team comprised of visual designers, content strategists, and motion designers. Collaborated with project managers, business development, and executive leadership to work in the best interests of our clients. Clients included Hewlett Packard, Dell, IBM, and Emerson.

Oversaw the work of a digital marketing agency servicing the entertainment industry. Projects included websites, rich media ads, and experiential installations. Coordinated with clients and presented new business concepts. Clients included MGM Hotels International, Disney Pixar, and Warner Bros Entertainment.

Responsible for all creative efforts, managing the design team across various interactive product initiatives. Worked closely with agency leadership to develop retainer relationship, communicate with clients, and grow business. Clients included Neiman Marcus, Fannie Mae, and Northrop Grumman.

Responsible for the conception and creation of new game ideas, including game names, components, level design, and animations for online games studio. Designed gameplay flows and translated to digital art for UI layouts, game elements and animations. Clients included GM, LEGO, Windows, Unilever, and Air Force.

Dallas, Texas, US

Created immersive experiences for digital design and advertising studio. Developed campaigns for print, interactive, and social media. Directed campaign photo and video shoots. Presented work to internal team and to external clients. Clients included BNSF, NEC, and Cisco.

Led design of interactive offerings for boutique brand design studio. Responsibilities included the conception and development of small business websites and banner ads. Designed corporate brand identity systems, marketing collateral, and product catalogs.

Assisted studio director in the production of design elements for brand and website initiatives. Concepted and produced brand identity elements, marketing collateral, website design layouts, and Flash animations.