I am happy to introduce (mostly) francophone visitors to my hometown historical charm from landfill to the Embrace, and from the oldest active Navy ship to the Zakim bridge both engineering marvels of their respective time.

Reconnecting face-to-face with people while promoting food I love. I spend my time helping and educating customers about our products, promoting our exceptional offerings, keeping shelves well-stocked, and well-organized and customers happy. I now aim for a position where I can bridge customer service and administrative support.

Contract work for a number of companies in the Boston area and beyond. I worked in Sketch, InVision and Axure to provide mobile-first design interactive prototypes, with research and visual design support.Healthcare clients GE Healthcare, Healthedge, Shyfts Analytics, MedullanResearch
– Designed flows and components for a desktop mobile-friendly web app dashboard
– Participated in persona development, usability interviews– Comprehensive review of prototyping tools (Atomic.io, Flinto, Marvel, Proto.io, Protopie, Principle, UX Pin, and InVision)Prototyping
– Projects were mostly rapid prototyping, working in 2-wk sprints in an agile environment– Provided interactive prototypes and animations– Created assets for a desktop web app dashboard adding material design to an existing design system– Helped redesign a legacy web app using Sketch, Pixate, and Zeplin – Worked in Photoshop updating layer comps for responsive websiteNon-profit clients Enfants du Cameroun, JSI, and RTI– Wordpress site for the French non-profit “Enfants du Cameroun”– e-newsletter on Mailchimp for Washington DC-based RTI international
– Graphics for Boston-based international development company JSI proposal's template – Branding and design for Food Link a small non-profit food recycling companyHigher Education client Harvard University – adaptive web app form using a mobile-first, user-centered approach for Harvard (HUIT) to match students with financial aid– Built a responsive prototype in Axure to share patterns and interactivity with developersFinance and Insurance Industry Clients were Sapient, Homesite, Wells Fargo, Wellington Management
– Combined several Axure files into an MVP buildable within the year– Worked in 2-week sprints with an agile team, on-boarding web app with a mobile-first approach – Supported Product owner and developer with A/B testing assets– Graphic Design support in a production heavy environment with tight turnarounds

Developed and organized a graphics library for proposals. Implemented the use of templates to streamline the work. Both of which allowed an increase of proposals submission from 19 in 2007 to 85 in 2012.Designed communication material (annual report, corporate brochures, posters, factsheets, CD covers and large format banners) consistent with the company's corporate branding guidelines in order to increase the company's brand recognition.Mentored junior Production Coordinator to ensure consistency and provide growth.Created and maintained a compendium of graphics and maps to be shared across the company's sites. Supported offices and centers as graphic consultant and troubleshooter. Developed guidelines on graphics, photographs, typography, and the formatting of tables and charts to be shared as a company-wide resource.

I was promoted from Graphic Artist Associate to Graphic Designer within a year. I started by supporting our sales department with documents for sales pitches to win new business and cultivate the existing client base, and went on to doing more graphic work, mostly org charts, presentations and some 4 pagers showcasing new investment tools and products.