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Austin, Tx, Us

Austin, Tx, Us

Austin, Texas, United States

Austin, Texas, United States

Multi-faceted designer and visual artist offering unique art products, customized art commissions, and comprehensive design services. Creates engaging and functional solutions, with a keen eye for aesthetics and a deep understanding of design principles and best practices, to ensure outcomes backed by research and testing that are user-friendly, accessible, and intuitive.As founder of an independently-owned creative studio, also manages all other aspects of the business, from day-to-day operations, administrative tasks, business development + management, and financial oversight to client relations and marketing.

United States

Provided customized innovative solutions tailored to meet specific client needs and user outcomes, with a focus on collaborative and impact-driven design processes. Specialized in UX design, creative strategy, research, ideation, prototyping, and testing. Worked with 19 clients—driving projects from concept to validation—across 18 different industries. Notable clientele include: The Washington Post, The University of Texas at Austin, Vox Media, Automattic/WordPress, Poynter, and the Legal Aid Justice Center.

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

Led design direction for all human-centric experiences on the Zeus Performance Console, a web-based application for managing online publishers’ advertisement monetization inventory. Collaborated with product managers, account managers, and software developers to streamline team processes for efficiency. Responsible for establishing and maintaining brand identity guidelines, design system, and visual component library. Assisted with usability testing efforts.

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

Responsible for exceptional visual executions of all display advertising across network of brands and Concert partners. Designed, built, and maintained interactive and engaging ad formats. Helped support Concert Studio team with production design needs, documentation, templates, and asset organizationbest practices. Created compelling visual advertising using a combination of partner assets as well as custom designs.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Led the design efforts for Prefect's Cloud web application and user interface. Conducted user research and managed usability testing sessions. Built useful and accessible user experiences through strategic content creation and thoughtful information architecture and informed data visualizations. Developed and maintained design system and brand style guide to ensure consistency across marketing materials and products. Established style for Prefect Core's open source documentation.

San Francisco, California, United States

Created promotional evergreen display and interactive HTML5 motion ads for WordPress brand redesign. Collaborated with Marketing team to ensure brand guidelines and vision were met.

Alexandria, Va

Developed design strategy and executed overall look and feel for client websites and web applications. Presented design alternatives and produced innovative and visually appropriate graphics. Led the creative vision and paired with the information architect to ensure all designs utilize best practices and positive user experiences. Created style tiles, homepage and internal page design concepts and client web-based style guides. Led weekly design critiques and provided mentorship to teammates.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Led design and built products & platforms that tell powerful and engaging stories both on- and off-platform for our brand partners. Worked closely with other designers, product/project managers and engineers to implement new sponsored content features. Mentored, onboarded, trained, and introduced new teammates to company and product team culture, structure, policies, applications, etc.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

September 2016 – June 2017 / Branded ContentHelped conduct user testing for new products and platform functionalities. Skillfully balanced design, prototyping and coding. Implemented UX/UI experiences on the Seller Resource Center platform. Assisted in forming constructive design processes. April – September 2016 / Revenue PlatformsFocused on building out and improving our in-house advertising platforms. Helped identify areas of improvement and provided thoughtful and scalable solutions to push the platforms forward. Designed UX/UI experiences and solved design challenges through brainstorms, sketching, wireframing, and prototyping. Developed re- usable design pattern library.January – April 2016 / Revenue ExecutionsBuilt and iterated on high-impact custom ad units. Created templates to optimize and improve workflow for designers and developers. Helped train, mentor, and onboard new team hires, walking them through RFP and production work. Worked on various Chorus for Advertisers (C4A) micro-sites, custom branded content and apps.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Designer on the Vox Media Product Team, focusing on Display and Branded Advertising. Produces visual RFP and production designs for advertising executions for Vox Media's 8 verticals — SB Nation, The Verge, Polygon, Curbed, Eater, Racked, Vox.com and Re/code. Creates layout designs for high-impact sponsored content. Codes, builds and executes ready-to-deploy high impact custom ad units. Conceptualizes digital brand campaigns and sponsorship opportunities and offers design/branding expertise to clients. Assists in-house marketing team with presentation decks.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Collaborated with and assists Design/Production team to create photoshop mock-ups, RFP designs, etc for client's ad space on company websites (sbnation.com & theverge.com) which include banners, collapsed bars and pushdowns, background reskins, leaderboards & medium rectangle, sponsored title bars, etc. Assisted senior and junior designers with any company branding designs. Converted InDesign decks into Powerpoint presentations.

Fairfax County, Virginia, United States

Personal care assistant to individual on the autism spectrum. Supported, assisted, and directed client with routine activities while encouraging independence. Delivered mobility support when needed as well as instructed and motivated client while they performed household chores and completed homework and/or readings. Performed basic housekeeping duties, including cleaning, laundry, and preparing meals. Supported client with personal hygiene needs/tasks, including bathroom visits, bathing, dressing, and brushing teeth.Dispensed medications, administered treatments, and assisted with exercise routines as prescribed. Reported any changes in physical, mental, and emotional conditions of client to relevant parties.Provided individual with companionship and accompanied client on outings, medical appointments, and events. Engaged client in suitable activities, such as playing games, taking walks, or having conversations, while providing company and comfort to client overall.

Fairfax County, Virginia, United States

Served as a Recreation & Unit Leader for Summer camps and Saturday Leisure programs within Fairfax County's Neighborhood and Community Services Department, providing services, education and resources that met the needs of participants with varying intellectual and physical disabilities. Planned and facilitated daily therapeutic activities that contributed to participants’ development of motor skills and social interactions. Supported, advocated, and assisted individuals who wished to participate in general recreation activities, including arts & crafts, sensory play, games, sports, and music activities. Oversaw and supervised designated participants and staff within a camp room. Provided program support to staff as well as participants and their parents and/or guardians.

Master Of Arts - Ma, Design In Health

Bachelor Of Fine Arts (Bfa), Art & Visual Technology – Graphic Design

Activities and Societies: GMU Honors Program, Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, Golden Key International Honour Society, AIGA Student Chapter.

Ux Design Bootcamp

One day bootcamp that offers a practical and simple introduction to what UX is while also explaining some of its core concepts of usability.

Certificate Of Completion, Front End Web Development, A

10-week intensive course on front-end coding languages including HTML, CSS, Javascript & jQuery.