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Grapevine, Tx, Us

Plano, Texas, United States

Westlake, Tx

Managing a team of UX designers as a player coach I collaborated across business functions and Agile teams to directly contribute, design, and enhance internal and external facing tools for the largest charitable grant-making organization in the US.• Launched the highest requested web feature, reducing service call volumes by an estimated 4,000 calls per year and over 500+ hours of rep service time.• Released new features on our iOS app that enabled donors to make mobile contributions to their Donor Advised Funds, increasing access points and opportunities to grow our $11.2B in granting to charities.• Improved the team’s design operations, reducing meetings and building service models to increase efficiency and trust within the organization while evolving the contribution model, design standards, and functionality within the existing brand and design system.

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Helping lead the efforts to create a one of a kind AIGA Student event. Details coming soon…

Plano, Texas, United States

Teaming up across Agile teams of designers, developers, project managers, and other stakeholders within financial services, I designed and helped develop successful strategies for new and existing digital products that empowered our customers and agents to succeed.• New product experience recognized with “Mark of Distinction” award, the highest recognition award across Financial Services. The product not only reduced service calls, but increased revenue via payments by educating and communicating in new ways with customers experiencing specific events.• Decreased expenses and overhead by designing what was to become Capital One Auto Finance’s first online document center, and a new digital solution for agents and customers to create dynamically generated documents that could be downloaded (new feature) by customers or physically mailed (agents only) utilizing entitlement based technology.

In this role I led a team of designers and developers that collaborated globally across all business functions, crafting digital experiences and design components that shaped websites, web apps, and marketing materials for internal partners, corporate communications, external campaigns, and general branding efforts using Design Thinking methodologies and UX Design principles. In addition, I helped lead the Sabre brand team to create, evolve, steward, govern, and implement global brand standards and design systems.• Improved production time of website and landing page creation 9X by implementing design systems and no-code solutions at scale for global brand and marketing.• Increased engagement on web and social media by 33% with a multi-fascinated global campaign that incorporated video, email, social, and web.

Westlake

Westlake, Tx

Westlake, Texas

I worked directly with Sabre Hospitality Global Marketing to develop and create email campaigns, landing pages, social media videos, infographics, white papers, and other marketing materials for events, products marketing groups, and general campaigns.

Haltom City, Texas

I was responsible for project management, developing internal workflows, and managing infrastructure, as well as leading junior creatives. I designed and created websites, print and digital graphics for the company and our clients. In addition, I produced, wrote, directed, shot, animated, and edited corporate videos, television commercials, and programming.• Optimized design and production process of creative team resulting in 7X profit increase for a recurring regional commercial client

Grapevine, Tx

As an owner/operator of AstraLab Media, I managed budgets, created and presented proposals and creative briefs to clients, and organized freelance teams to execute plans as needed. During this time I primarily focused on video production, developing original concepts and direction for music videos, films, and corporate videos. However, I also created websites and digital assets for social media campaigns, designed logos, print collateral, and 2D animation, motion graphics, and visual fx for various projects.

Southlake, Tx

At Apple, my role was primarily focused on training and facilitation. I was responsible for our regional three-day offsite onboarding training, business training, in-store corporate facilitation, and individual customer product training. Learning these skills introduced me to concepts later found in Design Thinking, and various group facilitation models. I learned powerful feedback and communication skills, strategy design, team building and conflict resolution strategies, and how to positively enable and motivate people into action.

Grapevine, Tx

I designed marketing-driven apparel for high schools and colleges across the United States. The shirts were created with existing client logos, advertising, or original artwork as needed. I worked with the account manager as well as directly with schools, clients, and screen printing facilities.

User Experience Design Certificate, User Experience Design

Through the esteemed UX Design certification program offered by SMU GO, I took courses related to Design Thinking, user research.

Bs, Visual Communication

Activities and Societies: Alpha Beta Kappa, Mentor & Ambassador Program• Graduated Salutatorian • Alpha Beta Kappa Honors • Mentor &.