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Denver, Co, Us

Denver, Colorado, United States

Englewood, Colorado, United States

- As the sole designer on the internal application team, I designed and maintained the user interface for 5 internal applications used across multiple STARZ teams.- Responsible for evangelizing and leading workshops and discussions on the importance of UX workflows and user validation to non-technical stakeholders.- Increased cross-team collaboration and efficiency with product managers, developers, and users by establishing a user-driven discovery and wireframe design process using collaborative tools like Miro and Figjam.- Earned my SCRUM product owner certification in February of 2023, allowing me to work closer with business analysts and engineering teams in an Agile environment, document user needs and requirements in Confluence, and request features updates within Jira.- Developed high-fidelity interactive prototypes with Figma variables, and led user testing with Hotjar and UserZoom to validate all of our design decisions.- Built and implemented a centralized design system from existing UIs, created new developer tokens, filled UI gaps, and designed a new dark mode for all internal applications, streamlining workflows and significantly reducing design and development production time for our teams.

Denver, Co

- Designed emails and landing pages in Pardot and Marketo to elevate client's ABM campaigns, led a 200% average increase in email engagement.- Developed ABM campaign concepts, branding guides, and web marketing assets for 10-12 IT and telecommunication clients like T-mobile, Ciena, and Uniti.

Greater Denver Area

- Created value propositions and messaging strategies and presented campaigns to clients like Walmart, Sunrun, Sodexo, and Aramark.- Directed a team of designers and developers to produce email, social, and website assets to WCAG Accessibility standards, and increase our client’s employment applications by 200%

Denver, Colorado, United States

- Managed all branding and marketing efforts for 12 multi-family home communities with a small team of contract writers, photographers, and drone techs.- Updated and re-launched the firm’s logo, website, and print materials using Adobe Creative Suite and Squarespace.

Greater Denver Area

- I started the LLC in 2012, producing digital branding and marketing plans for over 150 clients in 7 years of business.- Designed and developed digital products and campaign plans for Fortune 500 companies like NRG, Gilead Pharmaceutical, Comcast, and ebay.- Managed a team of 10-12 contract creatives across multiple projects and disciplines.- I closed down the company in 2019 to pursue full-time employment.- Clients included: Comcast, NRG, Gilead Pharmaceuticals, The Peach Truck, Women.com, Visit Denver, Colorado Conscious Capitalism, and the Denver Foundation.

Santa Monica, California, United States

- Kraver is a food discovery bot that can suggest the food you krave and get it delivered in under an hour. - I designed the UI, and developed the branding, UX strategy, and the copy for the bot interactions.- I led focus group usability studies on our alpha release, and pivoted from a UI dashboard to a chatbot interaction model in response to the results.- Collaborated with our offshore developers, documenting requirements, feature requests and managing bug fixes.

Greater New Orleans Area

- BeneFit, first-place winner of New Orleans Startup Weekend 2014, is an innovative new platform that allows you to donate your exercise to the causes you believe in. - I designed the winning concept and managed the design and development of the alpha release of our mobile app.- Led market research and user validation efforts and worked with corporate stakeholders to build test campaigns for our beta release.

Greater San Diego Area

Provided business development coaching, technical assistance, and resource referrals for refugee entrepreneurs in order to help them start or expand their small businesses.

Greater San Diego Area

Provided marketing coaching, technical assistance, and graphic design services for refugee entrepreneurs in order to help them start or expand their small businesses.

Greater Denver Area

Responsible for branding/marketing of the Human Trafficking Center (HTC) at JKSIS, the University of Denver. Led efforts on design, messaging, and production of all communication materials.

Jerusalem

Assisted the Director of Communications in producing website, marketing with new technologies. Assisted Rabbis in field work, through networking, blogging, photography, and videography.

Assisted the Director of Communications in producing printed and web-based media. Utilized creative mediums to communicate the stories of our development partners. Participated in the planning of communications strategies. Developed a comprehensive set of videos for advocacy and fundraising purposes. Documented organizational events and activities.

M.A, International Development; International Human Rights Law

B.A, Intercultural Studies

Arabic Language Study. Peace And Conflict Study. Islamic Thought And Practice.

Study abroad immersion program.

Education record

Intensive Spanish Immersion Program.