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Asheville, North Carolina, United States

Asheville, North Carolina, United States

Grew and managed a team of 6 full time UX designers contributing to over 15 different client organizations as well as providing oversight and guidance to 3 large scale contracted staffing teams. Developed a new business offering around Design System Consulting that utilized UX team members as well as other discipline contributors across visual design, content strategy, and front-end development to improve design system efficiency and utilization at 5 client organizations.

Pensacola, Florida, United States

Took a sabbatical to explore my love of photography resulting in the development of creative structured empathetic portraiture sessions that were used to develop a brand and identity for local companies, organizations, and non-profits.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Created a new UX design discipline within a fast-moving startup that utilized a mixture of existing team members, external consultants, and 3rd party agencies to develop a culture user centered design for the development of safety critical command and control systems.Cultivated new partnerships with industry partners that resulted in the first public demonstration of the hyperloop system at CES, the world’s largest technology trade show.

Portland Or

Lead the design and development of a new design system that user tested internationally with over 100 participants and released on JLR’s flagship vehicle, the Defender. Produced RFPs and partnership awards for 5 functional areas of a new in-vehicle infotainment system spanning operating system requirements, UX design, language translation, multimedia service SDKs, and design tools resulting in the successful deployment of the PIVI Pro Infotainment System.

Orlando, Florida Area

Created new embedded display solutions that conformed to safety critical requirements such as DO-178 (Level A), 501(K), FACE, and ISO 26262.Traveled globally to train, guide, and develop new technical customer programs in automotive and aerospace UX applications for in-vehicle display systems.Formed new technology partnerships with complimentary technology companies and created demonstration applications for those partnerships.

Orlando, Florida Area

Developed two multi-million dollar projects for the US ARMY PEO STRI division for the UH-72A Virtual Maintenance Training Program and Stryker MTS student classrooms.Managed sales for the automotive market.Assisted other sales and business development representatives in more technical and specialized demonstrations.

Orlando, Florida Area

Answered customer inquiries to help end users in creating high fidelity feature rich Human Machine Interfaces for desktop simulation environments, 3D interactive courseware, and embedded instrumentation.Developed and updated the GL Studio / VE Studio product line.Led monthly webinar topics to educate new and exiting users on key features of GL Studio.

Orlando, Florida Area

Developed C++ software for the reliable launch, targeting, and flight of the Hellfire missile system. Managed project requirements within the DOORS requirements system.