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Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

Strategic Leadership:- Defined and led the overall UX architecture for the global digital ecosystem.- Collaborated with business stakeholders, product management, and solution architects to align design with business strategy.Team Management and Quality Assurance:- Managed 10-person design team, ensuring quality across customer-facing solutions.- Mentored designers and provided guidelines for best practices.Human-Centered Design and Analytics:- Developed workflows with stakeholders to capture key analytics.- Owned all aspects of the user experience, from research to implementation.Key Achievements:- Led team to deliver major eCommerce platform rewrite through 30+ components and 700+ screens and states.- Doubled user sessions and 50% increase in conversions with the redesign and launch of Automotive OEM Coatings hub site.- Defined and delivered global designs for key Product and Color journey experiences.

Montreal, Quebec, Ca

At CGI, I led project teams in delivering strategic and tactical solutions across financial, bio, and government sectors. I applied Human-Centered Design methods to understand, clarify, and visualize key information, including information structures, business processes, user journeys, mental models, and stakeholder relationships. Additionally, I collaborated closely with clients, users, and team members to produce compelling and effective user interface designs, while actively participating in user research.

Montreal, Quebec, Ca

As part of the human-centered design practice at CGI, applied expertise in visual design, motion design and user experience (UX) to achieve project goals. Work focused on bringing final form to digital projects, exploring visual language options for user interactions, defining brand personality within the context of the project, solving interaction challenges, and establishing design-patterns to help project teams bring form to user journeys. Incorporated current design trends, producing deliverables for development use, and working closely with development teams to proactively identify and resolve issues. - Follows Agile process for design and development.- Creates low fidelity wireframes to high fidelity designs.- Plans and leads workshops to elicit healthy participation and engage attendees.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Us

As part of the human-centered design practice at Summa, applies expertise in visual design, motion design and user experience (UX) to achieve project goals. Work focuses on bringing final form to digital projects, exploring visual language options for user interactions, defining brand personality within the context of the project, solving interaction challenges, and establishing design-patterns to help project teams bring form to user journeys. Incorporates current design trends, producing deliverables for development use, and working closely with development teams to proactively identify and resolve issues. - Follows Agile process for design and development.- Creates low fidelity wireframes to high fidelity designs.- Plans and leads workshops to elicit healthy participation and engage attendees.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

Responsible for establishing the conceptual and stylistic executions of digital projects and campaigns for clients in various sectors including financial, healthcare and engineering.

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

Senior designer responsible for the strategy and creation of digital experiences across desktop and mobile channels. Areas of focus included content marketing campaigns, responsive websites, mobile applications, and social media.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Us

E-Business, PNC Financial Services, Pittsburgh, Pa.- Responsible for the user experience, front-end design, and art direction for various PNC microsites, PNC.com and Virtual Wallet properties, and PNC’s Facebook and Twitter presence.- Managed the implementation of new assets throughout PNC web-properties in alignment with Virtual Wallet and PNC.com redesigns.- Designed banner ads, landing and promotional pages for PNC.com, Virtual Wallet, Twitter, and Facebook.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Us

Creative Services, PNC Financial Services, Pittsburgh, Pa. - Art directed and supervised production of collateral materials for PNC and its line of businesses, including branch point-of-purchase merchandise.- Lead the development and deployment of brand guidelines for Institutional Investments, Corporate and Institutional Banking, PNC Funds, and Capital Advisors.- Developed line of promotional items for Virtual Wallet Street Team including t-shirts, hats, and tote bags.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Us

Federal Planning Department, Michael Baker Jr., Inc., Moon Township, Pa.- Art directed and produced extensive graphic documents ranging from master/area development plans to proposals.- Supervised 3-person production team through the creative and production process of all department documents.- Developed and instructed "Introduction to InDesign" training course for U.S. Coast Guard clients. Successfully migrated staff from Word to InDesign for document production.- Clients include U.S. Army, Coast Guard, U.S. Air Force, US-Visit program, and internal clients.