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Chicago, Il, Us

Chicago, Illinois, United States

• Led the development of software and curated live experiences to enhance the pleasure of experiencing visual art.• Created VibrantCast fusions, linking classic painted canvases to augmented layers for emotional art connections.• Managed ideation, user testing, and front-end/back-end development using supabase and flutterflow.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

• Led client engagements to define and drive product vision, strategy, and design, ensuring alignment with business goals and user needs.• Managed a multidisciplinary team of user experience professionals, overseeing the entire product development lifecycle.• Employed advanced requirements gathering techniques and conducted in-depth user research to inform design decisions.

• Led the evolution of products to include new innovative hybrid event interactions for Dynamic Communities members and sponsors.• Responsible for all technology aspects of the Decision Acceleration Platform, mydacfeed.com, redefining expectations for technology in business.

Chicago

• Led development of a virtual event platform for b2b media applications.• Advised and built complete end-to-end digital platforms for digital events and hybrid use cases.• Built prototypes, led development team, and successfully released products.

Portland, Oregon, United States

• Led creative and software development for stress relief app Mindcurrent, now available on Apple App Store and Google Play.• Gathered insights from 25,000+ beta users worldwide to enhance the app for release to companies, universities, and government agencies.• Transitioned to advisory role to explore visualizing stress responses, driving innovation in mental health technology.

Greater Chicago Area

• Led the creation of new products and applications to enhance core enterprise offerings, managing 92 million client first-party data records.• Integrated ReactionStream technology within the Omeda platform for clients hosting business events.

Greater Chicago Area

• Led team to streamline Vance’s data offerings for traditional publishing portfolio.• Assisted ownership in successful sale of company after 78 years in business.

Greater Chicago Area

• Led the creation of a new global business unit for UBM Studios, focusing on interactive online events and environments.• Collaborated with teams to execute hundreds of digital environments and webcasts, in addition to physical conferences and trade shows.• Developed innovative strategies to drive engagement and enhance user experience, resulting in increased audience participation and satisfaction.

Greater Chicago Area

• Developed high impact rich media web environments to educate and entertain technical audiences.• Created interactive games and marketing environments for B2B publishers, increasing user engagement.• Acquired by United Business Media in 2007, forming the foundation for UBM Studios.

Vancouver, Canada Area

• Conducted market research to identify potential use cases for NGRAIN voxel 3D technology in the industrial market vertical.• Collaborated with product development team to test and experiment new features for animated instructions using NGRAIN's producer toolset.

Greater Chicago Area

• Spearheaded the transformation of traditional paper instructions to online animated instructions for a variety of clients, including ready-to-assemble office furniture, toys, and home grills.• Developed the initial product vision and led the creative direction at Animated Vision, based in the Greater Chicago Area.